LABORATORY FOR THE STUDY OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

8th Annual Excellence in Management Cup

Final Results

8/17/2016

This document holds the Laboratory for the Study of Intercollegiate Athletics research findings on which athletic departments are most efficient with their finances in terms of championship wins. For more information, visit lsia.tamu.edu. What is the Excellence in Management Cup?

The Excellence in Management Cup was established by the Laboratory for the Study of Intercolle- giate Athletics (LSIA) at A&M University in order to address the question of: Who is the most economically efficient athletic department in Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A)? The unique, yet simple, scoring system awards more points to athletic departments that win con- ference and national championships while efficiently allocating money to win these championships. Other championship cups do not address natural competitive advantages given to universities that have higher operating budgets and play more sports (thus, more opportunities to win champion- ships). The Scope and Purpose of the EM Cup

The purpose of the EM Cup is to bring awareness about NCAA athletic departments that are max- imizing fiscal resources leading to championship victories. In other words, when less money is spent winning championships will lead to a higher score in the Excellence in Management Cup.

How are the EM Cup scores calculated?

Due to athletic departments being unique in size, economic strength, and number of opportunities available to win championships, the EM Cup results are calculated using a formula that will even the playing field. A database was created to tally the following information in the scoring system depicted below pictorially. National and conference champions are tallied for each NCAA and Con- ference-specific sanctioned sport and awarded to the winners. More value is placed upon the na- tional championships than conference championships in the formula. Then, each the athletic de- partment’s operating expenses and number of sports played at the university are entered into the database. This information was collected from the EADA reports and individual athletic depart- ment websites. In order to make the scores more manageable, the entire equation is multiplied by 100,000,000.

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS

American Athletic Conference

Atlantic Coast Conference

Big Ten Conference

Big Twelve Conference

Conference USA

Mid-American Conference

Mountain West Conference

Pacific Twelve Conference

Southeastern Conference

Sun Belt Conference Excellence in Management Top 25 14 13 12 11 10 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 6 5 4 3 2 1 9 8 7

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American Athletic Conference American Athletic Conference Mountain WestConference Mountain WestConference Mid Mid Mid Mid Mid Atlantic Coast Conference Atlantic Coast Conference Sun Conference Belt Sun Conference Belt Sun Conference Belt Sun Conference Belt Sun Conference Belt Sun Conference Belt Sun Conference Belt Pac Pac 12 Conference Pac Pac 12 Conference - - - - - American Conference American Conference American Conference American Conference American Conference ConferenceUSA ConferenceUSA ConferenceUSA

0.5914 0.5996 0.6406 0.6714 0.6778 0.6959 0.7062 0.7293 0.7301 0.7335 0.7580 0.8253 0.8275 0.8648 0.8781 0.8940 0.8980 1.0227 1.1871 1.2020 1.3143 1.5006 1.5461 1.5984 2.3385

Excellence in Management Final Results Conference Standings

University of Connecticut 0.8253 University of Tulsa 0.7293 University of Houston 0.4260 University of South Florida 0.2509 University of Cincinnati 0.2456

Syracuse University 1.1871 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 0.6714 University of Virginia 0.4664 Clemson University 0.2055 Florida State University 0.1535

Pennsylvania State University 0.4390 University of Nebraska 0.3668 University of Maryland 0.2502 University of Michigan 0.1979 Ohio State University 0.1460

University of Oklahoma 0.8781 West Virginia University 0.4456 University of Texas 0.3925 Oklahoma State University 0.2338 University of Kansas 0.1613

Western Kentucky University 0.8275 0.7580 Middle Tennessee State University 0.7062 The University of Texas at El Paso 0.5172 Florida International University 0.4436 Eastern Michigan University 2.3385 SUNY at Buffalo 1.3143 University of Akron 0.8980 Kent State University 0.7301 Western Michigan University 0.6778

University of New Mexico 1.2020 University of Nevada-Las Vegas 0.6406 Colorado State University 0.5757 Fresno State (California State U, Fresno) 0.3625 University of Nevada-Reno 0.2724

University of Oregon 1.5461 University of California - Berkley 0.7335 Oregon State University 0.5708 Stanford University 0.5295 University of Washington 0.3387

University of Arkansas 0.5914 University of Florida 0.4427 University of 0.3829 University of Alabama 0.3687 Texas A & M University 0.1717

Coastal Carolina 1.5984 University of Texas - Arlington 1.5006 University of Louisiana at Lafayette 1.0227 Arkansas State University 0.8940 Little Rock 0.8648

For more information visit lsia.tamu.edu