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Texas A&M The Battalion Sports May 5, 1982 Page 15 thletic revenues A&M football gate receipts total $2.7 million in 1981 e urces ^body’s gm to have a at the /e years w- distribute emote tei iters), and f 1 ramming ■ by Bill Robinson ■ ,l , Battalion Staff nave a goa! jp ^ (jjg business of intercol- it literateirw,, athletics, football has atter whatMLgd as the primary source ma y a ^ii|erational funding for all sasoftheTexas A&M Athletic partment. Gate receipts from the 1981 Kll season amounted to Ht $2.6 million. Of that Fi re, slightly over $1 million Tie Irom ticket sales to home mes, another $1 million came im road and bowl games, and HOOD came from student ket books. Hie 1981 total represents a 3 Hnt increase over the 1980 olved. Hof more than $2.5 million tified aSiifiptball gate receipts, les CountyHpe reason for the small in- m Van dtH ampaign; iir framed Si p him inpuj crease in the revenue figures is the quality of opponents the Aggies faced in Kyle Field dur ing 1981. Contracts for the split of game proceeds are written in a way that gives the big football schools like Texas A&M, Texas and Arkansas a bigger share of the gate, said Assistant Athletic Director for Business Affairs Wally Groff. For that reason, Louisiana Tech was Texas A&M’s big money-making game in 1981, despite having almost 10,000 fewer people in attendance than most other home games. A high level of revenue is dependent upon high attendance. Attendance is an area in 1981 HOME FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS GAME GATE RECEIPTS STUDENT RECEIPTS SPORT INCOME ATTENDANCE Baseball $8,159 La. Tech $221,878 Basketball $136,020 UH $203,141 $136,127 56,217 Golf $1,419 SMU $185,289 $136,127 66,569 Track $2,909 Ark. $200,894 $136,127 62,646 Men’s total revenue $148,507 Texas $216,118 $136,127 62,003 Women’s basketball $2,785 $136,127 71,731 Women's softball $1,275 Women’s track $50 TOTAL $1,707,955 $680,635 319,166 Women’s volleyball $660 Women’s total revenue $4,770 Sherrill drew large crowds while at the University of Pitt sburgh and could attract as many as 500,000 football fans to games in Kyle Field next year. The stadium sets 70,016 but can easily hold more. But football is apparently the only sport in which Texas A&M can attract fans. Non-football revenue re ceived through March 31 was only $153,277, a 50 percent de crease from what was received a which Texas A&M football rare ly lacks. In 1981, Texas A&M set a new Kyle Field attendance re cord with over 315,000 specta tors attending football games. With seven home games next opts for new position coach imp is a QKs E3s New Orleans line d Sirhan is ingaboutiH rfifeUnited Press International aticm by jj EW ORLEANS — Former ' rr aC( »t ()n Oilers center Carl m me j 0 j nec i the New Hns Saints as season, as well as the potential draw of new head coach Jackie Sherrill, the Aggies should easily surpass the 1981 figure. Even if the average attend ance increases by only 5 percent in 1982, as it has done each of the last two years, football re venue could surpass the $3 mil lion mark. Another reason Texas A&M should hit $3 million in revenue in 1982 is the caliber of teams it is playing. the assistant when I took the head coaching job at Houston. He has been a winner by working — not talking.” Mauck, a native of McLeans- boro, Illinois, entered the NFL from Southern Illinois Universi ty in 1969. acli veteran of 13 NFL sea- aw f wi , .H along with offensive line ■trirv Hi Joe Spencer, coach Bum \ IWlljjjijpj sa i f ] Tuesday. E Bauck, 34, played center for yet pBaltimore Colts, Miami Dol Hs and San Diego Chargers ifore being traded to the Oilers l !75 ' He ,c,ne(l from Hous- “polrX^ng the 1981 season. ) anti-gowHarl played for me six years th tear HHouston, and we were lorities whether two years in San r riot-totrHo,” Phillips said. “He was ors used ie first player 1 traded for : most violH itrationsir.jp jf martial I ’ Bother s Bookstore PAYS TOP DOLLAR FOR USED BOOKS! VISION Announcing: Hair Designs Janet Wiltsie r ^ Becky Moore ° f Courtea also Tom Chateau Phone 846-8528 At the Southgate 696-2111 303 College Main (Down from Loupots next to White’s Auto) By playing seven home games against lower-quality teams, the University should be able to negotiate more advan tageous contracts, similar to the Louisiana Tech contract in 1981. Surpassing $3 million in foot ball gate receipts, the primary component of the Stadium Re venue Fund that pays Athletic Department salaries and other expenses, would be a great achievement. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ i t ♦ ♦ > year ago. , . Texas A&M set a single-game thus far, basketball is the high of 71,731 against the Urn- second _ leading source of re- versity o, 1 exa s in 1981, easily venuej having produced over breaking the old stadium record $135,000. The basketball sum of 69,735 set against Baylor in does not include the University’s *980. share of National Invitational Tournament money. Baseball is a distant third in revenue production, followed by track, women’s basketball, golf, women’s softball, women’s volleyball and women’s track. 3 pe foi ence average for the 1981 sea son also broke the previous Kyle Field average attendance record of 60,432, set in 1980. 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