by our College Data Analytics TeamOn this page we break down Football at Duke University, a fall sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Duke plays at the level of NCAA Division I-FBS as a member of Atlantic Coast Conference.
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The Duke men’s football team carries 121 student athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 365. The most recent cohort included 407 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Among the 18 varsity sports Duke reports, football ranks #2 by total roster size.
The men’s football program is staffed by 11 coaches — 1 head coach and 10 assistants. Staffing-wise, 11 are full-time and 0 part-time. The head coach is Manny Diaz.
Among the school’s 18 sports, football ranks #3 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Duke men’s football program brought in $67,356,450 in revenue against $47,363,558 in expenses, for a surplus of $19,992,892. This comes to about $57,605 in operating expense per athlete, or $6,970,227 per team.
Against the school’s 18 sports, football sits #1 by revenue, or about 37% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s football team recorded an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 990 (986 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 94%. The program kept 98% of its athletes, with 99% remaining academically eligible.
Against the school’s average team APR of 995, football sits below average at 990.
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