by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Football at Butler University, a fall sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Butler is classified as NCAA Division I-FCS as a member of BIG EAST Conference.
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The Butler men’s football team carries 119 student athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 428. The most recent cohort included 438 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 13 varsity sports Butler sponsors, football sits at #2 by total roster size.
The men’s football program is staffed by 11 coaches — 1 head coach and 10 assistants. In all, 5 are full-time and 6 part-time. The head coach is Kevin Lynch.
Among the school’s 13 sports, football ranks #1 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Butler men’s football program brought in $1,498,263 in revenue against $1,421,775 in expenses, for a surplus of $76,488. That works out to about $1,604 in operating expense per athlete, or $190,821 per team.
Against the school’s 13 sports, football sits #5 by revenue, or about 4% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s football team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 978 (989 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 95%. It retained 98% of its athletes, with 99% remaining academically eligible.
Relative to the school’s average team APR of 988, football lands below the pack at 978.
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