[ballah09]

came across this about Memphis being dropped to FCS....

Financially, the benefits of a drop to, say, the FCS level are unclear. The average FCS program spent $2.7 million on football in 2009, according to U.S. Department of Education data. The biggest spender, Liberty University, spent $7.5 million that year.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/20 ... rossroads/

edit numbers from 2009


latest data

Liberty--$5,273,826
Montana--$5,023,393
ODU--$5,020,385
Richmond--$5,010,248
William and Mary--$4,941,487
JMU--$4,856,489
Appy--$4,096,371
Coastal--$3,876,005
Stony Brook--$3,477,701

[01LUGrad]

That would be the year the money was spent on the stadium, right?

[ballah09]

oops it's the latest that i've posted (10-11) so it doesn't include JMU's expansion, which would probably bump up their numbers