Texas A&M
The Battalion Sports
May 5, 1982 Page 15
thletic revenues
A&M football gate receipts total $2.7 million in 1981
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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,
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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
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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.
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veteran of 13 NFL sea-
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yet pBaltimore Colts, Miami Dol
Hs and San Diego Chargers
ifore being traded to the Oilers
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“polrX^ng the 1981 season.
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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.
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, . 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.
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Field average attendance record
of 60,432, set in 1980.
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