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SEC financial health

This letter is the average of the financial health grades already on the member pages. Incomplete schools are listed and left out of the average.

A

2

B

9

C

3

D

0

F

0

Incomplete

2

Highest Arkansas, Kentucky A

Lowest Alabama, Missouri, South Carolina C

Members

• Graded

  Arkansas A

  Makes more than it spends without university help, gets little help from the university, moderate stadium debt.

• Kentucky A

  Nearly covers its bills without a subsidy, gets little help from the university, little stadium debt.

• Florida B

  Nearly covers its bills without a subsidy, gets modest help from the university, moderate stadium debt.

• Georgia B

  Nearly covers its bills without a subsidy, gets little help from the university, moderate stadium debt.

• LSU B

  Makes more than it spends without university help, gets little help from the university, a heavy annual debt payment.

• Mississippi State B

  Makes more than it spends without university help, gets little help from the university, a heavy annual debt payment.

• Oklahoma B

  Makes more than it spends without university help, gets little help from the university, a heavy annual debt payment.

• Ole Miss B

  Needs a subsidy to cover a modest gap, gets modest help from the university, little stadium debt.

• Tennessee B

  Makes more than it spends without university help, gets modest help from the university, heavy stadium debt.

• Texas B

  Makes more than it spends without university help, gets little help from the university, annual debt service takes a large share of revenue.

• Texas A&M B

  Makes more than it spends without university help, gets modest help from the university, a very heavy annual debt payment.

• Alabama C

  Needs a subsidy to cover a modest gap, depends on the university for a real share of revenue, a very heavy annual debt payment.

• Missouri C

  Runs a large gap without university help, depends on the university for a real share of revenue, a heavy annual debt payment.

• South Carolina C

  Runs a large gap without university help, depends heavily on student fees and the university, moderate stadium debt.

• Incomplete

  Auburn Incomplete

  Incomplete: athletics debt is not in a public filing.

• Vanderbilt Incomplete

  Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.

How the conference letter is calculated

A conference letter uses only the financial health letters already on its member pages. It does not add a filing, a dollar, or an estimate.

Each member letter is a point: A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1, F = 0. School grades in this book are A, B, C, D, F, or Incomplete. They do not use plus or minus. A plus or minus is not given a point. A member letter that is not one of those five letters, and is not Incomplete, is listed and left out of the average.

Incomplete members are listed and left out of the average. The conference letter is the unrounded average of the graded points. A is 3.5 or higher. B is 2.5 up to but not including 3.5. C is 1.5 up to but not including 2.5. D is 0.5 up to but not including 1.5. F is below 0.5. These are the same cutoffs as a school grade. The average in the grade reason is rounded to two decimal places for reading. The letter uses the full average, not that rounded display. If no member has a letter, the conference is Incomplete.

The grade reason quotes a reason already written on the member grades. Highest and lowest are the best and worst letters among graded members. A tie lists every school with that letter.

School grades and the factor cutoffs