by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Football at Citadel Military College of South Carolina, a fall sport — with a section for each major topic and side-by-side gender and cross-sport context. The Citadel plays at the level of NCAA Division I-FCS as a member of Southern Conference.
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The The Citadel men’s football team carries 119 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 275. The most recent cohort included 315 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 12 varsity sports The Citadel sponsors, football ranks #2 by total roster size.
The men’s football program carries 12 coaches — 1 head coach and 11 assistants. Of those, 12 work full-time and 0 part-time. At the helm is Maurice Drayton.
Among the school’s 12 sports, football sits #1 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The The Citadel men’s football program brought in $8,195,425 in revenue against $5,446,239 in expenses, for a surplus of $2,749,186. That works out to about $7,617 in operating expense per athlete, or $906,386 per team.
Against the school’s 12 sports, football ranks #1 by revenue, accounting for 36% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s football team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 958 (959 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 94%. Year over year, it held onto 95% of its athletes, with 97% remaining academically eligible.
Against the school’s average team APR of 986, football lands below the pack at 958.
If The Citadel places on one of our Best Schools for a Sport list, we include that ranking. College Factual’s sports rankings weigh both athletics and academics.
Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.