Moreover, Mizzou is one of just 22 schools whose athletics department is in the black. While that operating revenue is well behind Texas and Oklahoma State, each with budgets of over $100 million, MU's budget last year was only a few million behind fifth-place Kansas.
At a time when NCAA president Mark Emmert is expressing concern that the gap in revenue between the haves and have-nots is redefining "competitive equity," Mizzou is firmly among the haves, finishing 41st in the recently released Learfield Director's Cup Standings for all sports, or sixth among returning Big 12 schools - far behind Texas A&M (eighth), Oklahoma (10th) and Texas (12th) but closer to Oklahoma State (32nd) and Baylor (35th).
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