Excellence in Management Final Results

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

Utah State University Aggies

 Conference Champions (FBS)

Excellence in Management Final Results

TOP 25

Other Notables: UConn, Eastern Michigan, Oklahoma St., New Mexico St., Syracuse, Central Florida,

Arizona St., Florida, Baylor, Penn St.

What is 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: Who is the most economically efficient athletic department in Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A)?  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).

The Scope and Purpose of the EM Cup

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 will lead to a higher score in the Excellence in Management Cup.

How are the EM Cup scores calculated?

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 will even the playing field.

A database was created to tally the following information in the scoring system depicted below pictorially. 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.