Red bar is the Big 12 Median football spending (Baylor & TCU excluded).
The dark blue bar is FBS median football spending.
Compared to similarly-situated peers in the Big 12, Tech allocates a ton of resources to football.
Tech's Athletic Department's total revenues have been less than our similarly-situated peers within the Big 12.
This compares Tech spending on annual debt service.
Tech has a lot more debt from athletic facilities than the average Big 12 program.
Debt service is not included on EADA survey figures.
Some or all of the $18,000,000 that Tech spent on debt service in 2018 would need to be added to the football spending numbers in an EADA survey, in order to truly know how much $ Tech spends on football.
Conclusion:
Even though Tech's athletic department generates less $ than our peers, Tech still spends more $ on football than those same schools. Tech also has more debt service on facilities than our peers (often 2x the amount), a vast majority of which likely applies to football facilities.
