by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Baseball at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a spring sport — the roster, coaching, finances and academics, broken out by gender and stacked against the school’s other sports. UIUC plays at the level of NCAA Division I-FBS as a member of Big Ten Conference.
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The UIUC men’s baseball team fields 35 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 100. The most recent cohort included 112 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 15 varsity sports UIUC reports, baseball comes in at #7 by total roster size.
The men’s baseball program is staffed by 4 coaches — 1 head coach and 3 assistants. Staffing-wise, 4 work full-time and 0 part-time. At the helm is Dan Hartleb.
Across the school’s 15 sports, baseball sits #7 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The UIUC men’s baseball program generated $622,647 in revenue against $3,765,062 in expenses, a net loss of $3,142,415. Per athlete, that is about $21,054 in operating expense per athlete, or $736,877 per team.
Among the school’s 15 sports, baseball sits #5 by revenue, or about 0% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s baseball team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 985 (995 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 95%. It retained 99% of its athletes, with 99% remaining academically eligible.
Against the school’s average team APR of 991, baseball trails the average at 985.
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