Master of Education in Applied Human Development Graduate Projects

Abstract

If you participated in team sports, do you know the history of the teams you played for? It is fair to assume that athletes who play at the top collegiate level have greater knowledge of the team’s history for which they play. These high-level collegiate teams have the funding and resources necessary to document their team’s history properly. Club and Varsity sports indeed have separate budgets and resources available. Throughout the sports industry, it is well known that each university provides its athletic department with differing annual budgets, which are dependent on many different factors. Based on the Proposed Fiscal Year 2025 General Fee and Related Auxiliary Budgets, which are publicly accessible, the Proposed Fiscal Year 2025 budget for BGSU Intercollegiate Athletics was a grand total $26,530,943. Through a further analysis of the proposed budget, $12,746,238 is to be allocated to revenue sports. On the same page, it notes that Football, Men’s Basketball, and Hockey are the revenue sports, and the other 14 sports are considered “non-revenue” sports. The non-revenue sports were allocated $4,242,589. The remaining $9,105,320 was distributed to the “General” budget (University of Bowling Green State, 2024). Using the 2025 budgets and assuming that each team in the classified groups received an equal distribution of the budget, it can be concluded that the three “revenue” sports received $4,248,746 each and the 14 “non-revenue” sports received $303,042 each. These budgets are substantially larger than the club sports budget at BGSU.

Advisor

Dr. Ray Schneider

Second Reader

Dr. David Tobar

Semester

Spring

Year

2026

Degree

M.Ed.

Program

Sport Administration

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