by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Football at Samford University, a fall sport — with a section for each major topic and side-by-side gender and cross-sport context. Samford plays at the level of NCAA Division I-FCS as a member of Southern Conference.
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The Samford men’s football team lists 112 student athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 280. Academic data covers 357 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 11 varsity sports Samford sponsors, football ranks #2 by total roster size.
The men’s football program is staffed by 13 coaches — 1 head coach and 12 assistants. Staffing-wise, 13 are full-time and 0 part-time. The head coach is John Grass.
Among the school’s 11 sports, football sits #2 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Samford men’s football program brought in $6,730,393 in revenue against $6,096,558 in expenses, for a surplus of $633,835. Per athlete, that is about $6,208 in operating expense per athlete, or $695,250 per team.
Among the school’s 11 sports, football sits #1 by revenue, or about 25% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s football team recorded an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 964 (977 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 93%. It retained 97% of its athletes, with 98% remaining academically eligible.
Relative to the school’s average team APR of 988, football sits below average at 964.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.