by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Football at Grambling State University, a fall sport — the roster, coaching, finances and academics, broken out by gender and stacked against the school’s other sports. GSU plays at the level of NCAA Division I-FCS as a member of Southwestern Athletic Conf..
Skip ahead to the topic you care about:
The GSU men’s football team lists 154 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 292. The most recent cohort included 330 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Among the 11 varsity sports GSU reports, football ranks #1 by total roster size.
The men’s football program is staffed by 10 coaches — 1 head coach and 9 assistants. Staffing-wise, 10 are full-time and 0 part-time. At the helm is Mickey Joseph.
Across the school’s 11 sports, football ranks #1 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The GSU men’s football program brought in $4,981,977 in revenue against $4,981,977 in expenses, right at break-even. That works out to about $1,535 in operating expense per athlete, or $236,439 per team.
Among the school’s 11 sports, football sits #1 by revenue, or about 34% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s football team recorded an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 946 (937 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 79%. Year over year, it held onto 96% of its athletes, with 90% remaining academically eligible.
Against the school’s average team APR of 962, football lands below the pack at 946.
When GSU places on one of our Best Schools for a Sport list, you’ll see it called out. Our sports rankings reward schools that excel on the field and in the classroom.
If we don’t have data on a particular metric for this sport, it won’t appear above.