2016 Spring Schedules

Hooked003 · Mar 5, 2016

hykos1045 said: ↑

So, is five dates the maximum?
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Yes, five "dates of competition" is the rule, with exemptions for alumni game and playing a YNT (among other exemptions). A team can play multiple games on each date, though, which is how some of the schedules show more than five non-exempt games.

eefallen · Mar 8, 2016

Denver(at bottom of 2015 schedule): http://www.denverpioneers.com/sports/w-soccer/sched/denv-w-soccer-sched.html

IUPUI (partial?): http://www.iupuijags.com/news/2016/2/25/womens-soccer-to-host-be-the-match-alumni-weekend.aspx

UMKC(at bottom of 2015 schedule): http://www.umkckangaroos.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=18300&SPID=12749&SPSID=104114

eefallen · Mar 11, 2016

Santa Clara: http://www.santaclarabroncos.com/sports/w-soccer/2015-16/releases/20160309lt9p5y

eefallen · Mar 13, 2016

Louisville: http://www.gocards.com/news/2016/2/17/WSOC_0217163041.aspx

Schadenfreuder · Mar 14, 2016

There really should actually be a Spring season -- the national championship can be decided in the Fall season, but Spring college soccer should consist of a couple of large regional tournaments and a final 4 tourny say in May.

It just seems that there is a lot of potential growth and performance (and revenue) for college soccer that we're not tapping into.

eefallen · Mar 17, 2016

Boise State: http://www.broncosports.com/sports/w-soccer/sched/bosu-w-soccer-sched.html

Western Illinois: http://www.goleathernecks.com/schedule.aspx?path=wsoc

Seattle: http://www.goseattleu.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=18200&SPID=10761&SPSID=89847

hykos1045 · Mar 17, 2016

Schadenfreuder said: ↑

There really should actually be a Spring season -- the national championship can be decided in the Fall season, but Spring college soccer should consist of a couple of large regional tournaments and a final 4 tourny say in May.

It just seems that there is a lot of potential growth and performance (and revenue) for college soccer that we're not tapping into.
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I disagree. Soccer is not a "revenue" sport. In college and even at the professional level, it is subsidized tremendously through sponsorships and institutions. And I don't see coca cola and acme corp, newspapers, or university presidents and football-minded AD's, clamoring at the gates for "more" soccer... and I don't see fans lining up and paying ducats to watch freshmen spring train. Enjoy spring soccer for what it is. A recruiting opportunity. A training opportunity. A feather in your cap if you win games. An opportunity for coaches to experiment with new lineups. Many Universities have explored the possibility of CUTTING BACK spring soccer because it is a money pit, not a "revenue oppty"

Cliveworshipper · Mar 18, 2016

hykos1045 said: ↑

Soccer is not a "revenue" sport. In college and even at the professional level, it is subsidized tremendously through sponsorships and institutions.
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Well, we are all watching March madness and you can say the same about the most lucrative college sport. Attendance doesn't even pay the coaches salary.

In Football, only 2 PAC 12 teams made money, for example, and NO ACC football programs ran in the black.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/running-up-the-bills/

Of the five big conferences, only the SEC has more teams running in the black than in the red.

I laugh when people mention revenue sports. The reality is they loose 10 times the revenue soccer does.

RockyTopFan · Mar 19, 2016

Cliveworshipper said: ↑

Well, we are all watching March madness and you can say the same about the most lucrative college sport. Attendance doesn't even pay the coaches salary.

In Football, only 2 PAC 12 teams made money, for example, and NO ACC football programs ran in the black.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/running-up-the-bills/

Of the five big conferences, only the SEC has more teams running in the black than in the red.

I laugh when people mention revenue sports. The reality is they loose 10 times the revenue soccer does.
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In my area of the country football is a revenue sport. When football is doing well, donations to the university goes up, enrollment increases, and the local area businesses see an increase in revenue. The only other sports that have brought in revenue are men and women's basketball, all the other sports work in the red.

cpthomas · Mar 19, 2016

RockyTopFan said: ↑

In my area of the country football is a revenue sport. When football is doing well, donations to the university goes up, enrollment increases, and the local area businesses see an increase in revenue. The only other sports that have brought in revenue are men and women's basketball, all the other sports work in the red.
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I think women's basketball may be borderline. The early round format for the NCAA Tournament is the format for non-revenue sports. It is possible, however, that the TV revenue from the elite eight on is sufficient to make it a slight money-maker, as the format from there on is similar to the format for a revenue sport.

RockyTopFan · Mar 20, 2016

cpthomas said: ↑

I think women's basketball may be borderline. The early round format for the NCAA Tournament is the format for non-revenue sports. It is possible, however, that the TV revenue from the elite eight on is sufficient to make it a slight money-maker, as the format from there on is similar to the format for a revenue sport.
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I was speaking specifically about the University of Tennessee, where women's basketball will make money during successful seasons. This year they will lose money because the team was poorly coached and lost to some terrible teams.

D1bound · Mar 20, 2016

Cliveworshipper said: ↑

Well, we are all watching March madness and you can say the same about the most lucrative college sport. Attendance doesn't even pay the coaches salary.

In Football, only 2 PAC 12 teams made money, for example, and NO ACC football programs ran in the black.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/running-up-the-bills/

Of the five big conferences, only the SEC has more teams running in the black than in the red.

I laugh when people mention revenue sports. The reality is they loose 10 times the revenue soccer does.
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http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...most-profitable-college-football-teams-122215

Cliveworshipper · Mar 20, 2016

D1bound said: ↑

http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...most-profitable-college-football-teams-122215
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from Sports business Daily:

At Tennessee, Big Orange battles red ink
By Michael Smith, Staff Writer

Published January 28, 2013

Average attendance at Neyland Stadium has dropped to its lowest point since 1979.
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Editor’s note: This story is revised from the print edition.

From the window in Dave Hart’s corner office, the University of Tennessee athletic director can see Neyland Stadium above all else, a fortress along the Tennessee River that instantly identifies the Volunteers as a member of college football’s elite.

Its enormity is a testament to the sport’s incredible growth during the past two decades and the power of the Tennessee brand. It also effectively conceals an athletic department that built enormous debt while trying to maintain its place among the richest and most powerful football programs in the Southeastern Conference.

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Now, after staggering to losing football seasons in four of the last five years and seeing attendance drop to levels last seen in the 1970s, the Vols find themselves mired in more than $200 million of debt, the most in the SEC, with reserves of just $1.95 million, the least in the conference.

The athletic department spends a startling $21 million a year on debt payments, $13.5 million of which comes from the school’s stressed $99.5 million athletic budget and the rest from donations.

It’s an ugly financial picture for one of the nation’s strongest football brands, the kind of financial hole that SEC football giants aren’t supposed to be in, brought about by expensive coaching buyouts and costly improvements to Neyland Stadium and other athletic facilities, just as the losing seasons set in.

“We’ve got to get football healthy,” Hart said from his office in the new $50 million Brenda Lawson Athletic Center, just weeks after hiring Butch Jones from Cincinnati to be the Vols’ fourth football coach in the last six years. “That’s our economic engine. When that program is successful, everybody wins.”

Hart speaks with an urgency about the task at hand. Formerly the No. 2 at Alabama and the longtime AD at Florida State, he took the job in Knoxville 18 months ago fully aware of the upside and the pitfalls of big-time college football. After replacing former AD Mike Hamilton, who resigned under pressure in June 2011, Hart began with a lengthy evaluation process that revealed mounting debt, much more than he had realized.

“Our financial position was probably the biggest surprise of the assessment,” said Hart, bucking the perception that Tennessee athletics is flush with cash. “We’ve got to be better stewards of our finances.”

Athletic Director Dave Hart was surprised by the debt he found when he evaluated the department after taking over in 2011.
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In his first year at Tennessee, as Hart began to fully understand the financial obstacles in his path, the athletic department posted a $3.98 million deficit, which reduced the reserves to a dangerously low level. So Hart put together the first steps of a plan that would help the Vols balance their annual budget and begin to climb out from under their crushing debt.

A cost-savings merger of the men’s and women’s programs was a logical step that will save $5 million this year, but it came at a cost. Seventeen jobs were eliminated. Tennessee used to be one of the few schools with completely separate departments for men and women.

Hart also negotiated with Chancellor Jimmy Cheek to at least temporarily halt an annual payment of $7 million from athletics to the university’s general fund that typically is made at the first of the fiscal year. Hart hopes to resume the annual transfer at some point, but preferably at the end of the fiscal year, not the beginning, so that athletics doesn’t start each year in a deficit.

Cheek pledged to keep that $7 million in the athletic department for the next three years to help the Vols get back on their feet.

“The bottom line is that, for SEC schools with extraordinary revenues, the profit margin is still very thin,” said Bill Carr, a former AD at Florida who now consults with athletic departments on strategy and searches. “Whether it’s Tennessee or any other school, if you’re not selling tickets at full bore and getting contributions to go with them, and that revenue tapers, it becomes very hard to put away the dollars you need. And then you have some undesired expenses like buyouts, and you can wind up in a negative position. The margin is razor thin for most schools.”

With those savings, Tennessee projects a balanced budget in 2012-13, which is a necessity for a program with just $1.95 million in reserves. Building reserves into the $50 million range or more is a priority, said Hart, who added that most SEC schools have reserves ranging from $50 million to $100 million.

Tennessee’s reserves have been depleted by $21 million in transfers back to the university over the last three years, and $11.4 million in buyouts to fired coaches in football, basketball and baseball, as well as administrators. Hamilton walked away in 2011 with a $1.335 million buyout.

None of that includes a $5 million buyout owed Derek Dooley, who was fired as Tennessee’s football coach in November, and $2 million to his assistants. That $7 million will have to be found in this year’s budget.

The Vols incur another expense that costs them $1.6 million a year in city and county taxes. It’s called the “amusement tax,” and it charges the school 5 percent on each ticket sold in football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball, in addition to the 9.25 percent state sales tax. The amusement tax, according to Tennessee athletics Chief Financial Officer Bill Myers, doesn’t pertain to concerts — just the Vols’ major sporting events. Cities and counties that are home to other Tennessee schools and the NFL Titans don’t impose such a tax, he said.

“There’s a perception that we’re sitting on a ton of money,” Myers said, “and that’s just not the case.”
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eefallen · Mar 25, 2016

Idaho: http://www.govandals.com/SportSelec...LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=17100&SPID=10353&SPSID=87211

CS Fullerton: http://www.fullertontitans.com/sports/w-soccer/2015-16/releases/20160128ua9boy

Colorado State: http://www.csurams.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/031616aaa.html

New Mexico: http://golobos.com/news/2016/3/1/womens-soccer-spring-schedule-released.aspx

Stanford: http://www.gostanford.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30600&ATCLID=210828654

USC: http://www.usctrojans.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/032316aaa.html

CSU Bakersfield: http://www.gorunners.com/ViewArticl...26&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=210822497&DB_OEM_ID=13300

hykos1045 · Apr 5, 2016

Cliveworshipper said: ↑

Well, we are all watching March madness and you can say the same about the most lucrative college sport. Attendance doesn't even pay the coaches salary.

In Football, only 2 PAC 12 teams made money, for example, and NO ACC football programs ran in the black.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/running-up-the-bills/

Of the five big conferences, only the SEC has more teams running in the black than in the red.

I laugh when people mention revenue sports. The reality is they loose 10 times the revenue soccer does.
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I was replying to a post that was so ridiculous it suggested charging admission to spring soccer and hoisting trophies which is against NCAA guidelines. I just went to a scrim over the weekend. 10% of the folks who attended might even know who won the match. I don't think they are allowed to charge admission but if they did it would have a negative impact on the casual fan's experience. It's just a fun way to fill the time and a great way to get your program out there and keep players in shape. It is not a source of revenue and it's fine if nothing's at stake but player development and experimenting with line-ups.