Here's what everybody spent on their Women's Volleyball teams in FY24

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Earlier this summer, I combed through the hundreds of itemized budget reports in our Extra Points Library to break down the size of the operational budgets for postseason baseball and softball teams. That performed well, so we also crunched the numbers for men’s and women’s basketball. Then, I looked up all the budgets for men’s soccer, even the teams that didn’t make the NCAA Tournament.

I get requests for lots of other sports, and I’m working my way through calculating the budget figures elsewhere. Today, we have the budget figures for a sport I get asked about a lot…women’s volleyball.

First, let’s talk about what this data tells us…and doesn’t tell us

The data that I am reporting comes directly from each school’s itemized FY24 MFRS Report. While every NCAA school in D-I and D-II has to file one of these reports, since the NCAA doesn’t actually make them public, I am only able to get the information from schools that are compelled to share it with me via Open Records Act requests.

That means I can’t get data from schools like BYU, SMU or Yale, because those are private schools. There are also a handful of public schools that don’t have to share these reports with me, like Temple, UCF and Delaware State, because of quirks in their state laws or how their athletic departments are organized.

Still, even with those restrictions, we’ve obtained data for over 200 D-I institutions.

The numbers that I am reporting here are the Total Operating Expenses reported on the MFRS Report. That includes institutional spending on stuff like coach salary, travel, athlete meals, scholarships, sports camps, equipment, and more. It does not include money spent via revenue sharing (which didn’t exist in FY24), nor does it include any revenue that athletes made via NIL (brand or collective-based).

I can’t FOIA that information at scale….yet.

Finally, and this is something I should have fixed in the previous newsletters, but this data is from Fiscal Year 2024, the most recent financial data available. The college sports fiscal year runs from July 1 to July 1, so the data I have would actually be from the 2023 season, not last year’s season.

So for this spreadsheet, your national champion is Texas, who defeated Nebraska for the championship. Pitt and Wisconsin also made the Final Four. This data is not reflective of the 2024 season. Yes, I know that’s confusing. Blame the accountants, not me.

This is a big list. I’ll drop the top 25 spending programs, and then share the rest of the data, plus a few thoughts, after the jump. All data comes via the Extra Points Library.

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