by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Baseball at West Virginia University, a spring sport — the roster, coaching, finances and academics, broken out by gender and stacked against the school’s other sports. WVU competes in NCAA Division I-FBS as a member of Big 12 Conference.
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The WVU men’s baseball team lists 42 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 112. The most recent cohort included 120 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 16 varsity sports WVU sponsors, baseball ranks #6 by total roster size.
The men’s baseball program is staffed by 4 coaches — 1 head coach and 3 assistants. In all, 4 are full-time and 0 part-time. Leading the program is Steve Sabins.
Across the school’s 16 sports, baseball sits #8 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The WVU men’s baseball program generated $4,224,823 in revenue against $4,224,823 in expenses, essentially breaking even. This comes to about $22,578 in operating expense per athlete, or $948,281 per team.
Against the school’s 16 sports, baseball sits #3 by revenue, accounting for 4% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s baseball team recorded an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 988 (971 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 87%. The program kept 95% of its athletes, with 99% remaining academically eligible.
Compared with the school’s average team APR of 990, baseball sits below average at 988.
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Some figures may be missing where the school did not report them.