Troy University Athletics
Troy Athletics Recognized for Outstanding Management
8/18/2010 5:53:39 PM | General
Texas A&M Survey Ranks Troy 10th in Nation
The Troy University department of athletics was ranked 10th in the nation among all NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) athletic departments in the Excellence in Management Cup.
The Excellence in Management Cup was established by the Laboratory for the Study of Intercollegiate Athletics (LSIA) at Texas A&M University in order to address the question of: Which Football Bowl Subdivision athletic department is the most economically efficient?
The purpose of the EM Cup is to bring awareness about NCAA athletic departments that are maximizing fiscal resources leading to championship victories. In other words, when less money is spent winning championships, a program will receive a higher score in the Excellence in Management Cup.
“This recognition is a tribute to the coaches, student-athletes and staff here at Troy University who work hard on and off the field of competition to be the best they can be,” Trojans director of athletics Steve Dennis said. “Our goal is to produce championship teams while, at the same time, producing quality young people who will go on to make positive contributions to our community and to the world.”
The unique, yet simple, scoring system awards more points to athletic departments that win conference 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 championships).
Because athletic departments are unique from one another in size, economic strength, and number of opportunities available to win championships, the EM Cup results are calculated using a formula that evens the playing field.
A database was created to tally the following information in the scoring system.
National and conference champions are tallied for each NCAA and Conference-specific sanctioned sport and awarded to the winners. More value is placed upon the national championships than conference championships in the formula.
Then, each the athletic department'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 department websites. In order to make the scores more manageable, the entire equation is multiplied by 100,000,000.
A full report regarding the 2010 Excellence in Management Cup is available here.
The Excellence in Management Cup was established by the Laboratory for the Study of Intercollegiate Athletics (LSIA) at Texas A&M University in order to address the question of: Which Football Bowl Subdivision athletic department is the most economically efficient?
The purpose of the EM Cup is to bring awareness about NCAA athletic departments that are maximizing fiscal resources leading to championship victories. In other words, when less money is spent winning championships, a program will receive a higher score in the Excellence in Management Cup.
“This recognition is a tribute to the coaches, student-athletes and staff here at Troy University who work hard on and off the field of competition to be the best they can be,” Trojans director of athletics Steve Dennis said. “Our goal is to produce championship teams while, at the same time, producing quality young people who will go on to make positive contributions to our community and to the world.”
The unique, yet simple, scoring system awards more points to athletic departments that win conference 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 championships).
Because athletic departments are unique from one another in size, economic strength, and number of opportunities available to win championships, the EM Cup results are calculated using a formula that evens the playing field.
A database was created to tally the following information in the scoring system.
National and conference champions are tallied for each NCAA and Conference-specific sanctioned sport and awarded to the winners. More value is placed upon the national championships than conference championships in the formula.
Then, each the athletic department'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 department websites. In order to make the scores more manageable, the entire equation is multiplied by 100,000,000.
A full report regarding the 2010 Excellence in Management Cup is available here.
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