FSU Spending on College Basketball

 HokieMark has a great article that makes you wonder about if FSU forgot if it's a football school or not.  Certainly helps explain how FSU lost it's way in SOO many areas the last 5 years.

https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2021/04/who-spends-most-on-mbb.html

From Yahoo! Sports: These 25 Colleges Spend the Most on Men’s Basketball

1) Duke

Expenses: $22,178,473

Appearances: 43

Final Fours: 16

Titles: 5

2) Kentucky

3) Louisville

Expenses: $19,180,078

Appearances: 43

Final Fours: 10

Titles: 3

4) Florida State

Expenses: $16,773,013

Appearances: 17

Final Fours: 1

Titles: 0

5) Alabama

6) TCU

7) UCLA

8) Marquette

9) Syracuse

Expenses: $14,845,555

Appearances: 40

Final Fours: 6

Titles: 1

10) Villanova

11) Michigan State

12) Georgetown

13) Virginia

Expenses: $13,400,721

Appearances: 23

Final Fours: 3

Titles: 1

14) Indiana

15) Kansas

16) Texas Tech

17) Texas A+M

18) Texas

19) North Carolina

Expenses: $11,204,115

Appearances: 50

Final Fours: 20

Titles: 6

20) Providence

21) Pitt

Expenses: $11,013,283

Appearances: 26

Final Fours: 1

Titles: 0

22) Ohio State

23) West Virginia

24) Northwestern

25) Tennessee

By conference...

ACC - 7 of top 25 basketball spending schools

B12 - 5

BIG, SEC & Big East - 4 each

PAC - 1

BOTTOM LINE: The ACC is investing in the wrong sport.

I can halfway understand Louisville, who has to compete with Kentucky and whose donor base leans heavily towards hoops. Plus, it's not like the Cardinals don't spend a lot on football, too.

Duke just doesn't seem to care about football - they are determined to funnel their money into basketball. In my opinion, that can work - but only if Duke agrees to be a non-football member of the ACC, like Notre Dame (see Rx: At Least $3.8M more per team).

I'm not sure how FSU got roped into this, but until the revenue flow increases, the Noles may need to back off the MBB spending just a bit. Florida State is just ahead of Alabama in hoops-related expenses, but the difference is the Tide can afford it, the Seminoles not so much.

Syracuse needs to decide: are you another Duke, or another Louisville?

Virginia and North Carolina are focused on the wrong sport, but at least they get a good return on their investment; I give them a pass - do what you want.

Pitt is simply wasting money on basketball. The Panthers should cut costs and plow that money into hiring and retaining great football assistant coaches.