Why football is KING of the mountain, and hoops sucks

Pakachoag Phreek
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Why football is KING of the mountain, and hoops sucks Mar 3, 2023 16:39:13 GMT -5 fillfittonfield likes this

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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2023 16:39:13 GMT -5

Pennsylvania State University football / men's hoops / ice hockey / wrestling
Revenue by source, 2021-2022 academic year, dollars in thousands

Ticket sales 40,650 / 624 / 1,841 / 1,098
Contributions 9,321 / 669 / 302 / 509 (boosters, athletic funds)
Media Rights 33,990 / 5,998
NCAA Distribn 294 / 1,969
B10 Distributin 1,511 / 1,266
Bowl Revenue 7,273 <<< This is a conference distribution
Concessions etc 7,924 / 19 / 138 <<<< includes parking, novelties, game programs
Endowment 1,215 / 221 / 1,800 / 315
Bowl revenue 2,029 <<< ticket sales, reimbursement of expenses

Total Revenue by sport

Football $105,610
M hoops 10,914 (of which about 90 percent is from media rights and Conference / NCAA distributions)
M ice hock 4,378
Wrestling 2,121
W ice hock 1,298 (followed by volleyball, and track and field)
W hoops 888

Total revenue, all teams $139.3 million

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fillfittonfield
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Why football is KING of the mountain, and hoops sucks Mar 5, 2023 0:53:32 GMT -5 via mobile

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Post by fillfittonfield on Mar 5, 2023 0:53:32 GMT -5

Mr. PP:

Is there a typo on the ticket sales line?

Basketball generates less revenue from ticket sales than Wrestling?

I knew wrestling was popular in Pennsylvania, but I didn’t know it is more popular than basketball.

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Why football is KING of the mountain, and hoops sucks Mar 5, 2023 15:42:39 GMT -5 fillfittonfield likes this

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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 5, 2023 15:42:39 GMT -5

Mar 5, 2023 0:53:32 GMT -5 fillfittonfield said:

Mr. PP:

Is there a typo on the ticket sales line?

Basketball generates less revenue from ticket sales than Wrestling?

I knew wrestling was popular in Pennsylvania, but I didn’t know it is more popular than basketball.

No typo. I was quite surprised to see hoops ticket revenue so low. I know Bucknell posters here have said that with respect to football attendance at Bison games, PSU was the elephant in the room, because the locals all followed PSU football. Maybe Bucknell basketball has a larger fanbase in that area of the country than does PSU hoops.
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With some further research today, it is now obvious that wrestling is BIG!

In front of a 15,998-person crowd, the Nittany Lions tied their own record for largest attendance of an indoor college wrestling match while setting the record for largest viewership of the sport with 388,176 viewers tuning into the must-watch match on Big Ten Network

^^^ Match against Iowa earlier this year.

Not an empty seat to be seen.

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Last Edit: Mar 5, 2023 15:43:33 GMT -5 by Pakachoag Phreek

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