by our College Data Analytics TeamOn this page we break down Football at Illinois State University, a fall sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Illinois State competes in NCAA Division I-FCS as a member of Missouri Valley Conference.
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The Illinois State men’s football team carries 128 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 363. The NCAA tracked 383 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 14 varsity sports Illinois State sponsors, football sits at #2 by total roster size.
The men’s football program carries 18 coaches — 1 head coach and 17 assistants. Staffing-wise, 15 are full-time and 3 part-time. At the helm is Brock Spack.
Across the school’s 14 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 Illinois State men’s football program brought in $5,119,248 in revenue against $5,119,248 in expenses, essentially breaking even. This comes to about $7,684 in operating expense per athlete, or $983,516 per team.
Against the school’s 14 sports, football sits #2 by revenue, or about 17% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s football team posted an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 980 (962 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 88%. It retained 95% of its athletes, with 97% remaining academically eligible.
Relative to the school’s average team APR of 990, football trails the average at 980.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.