Here in the offseason we often look at the financials of the athletic department as kind of a way to take the temperature of Purdue Sports. After all, both President Mitch Daniels and former athletic director Morgan Burke prided themselves on running a program in the black. For years all we have heard is how wonderful it is to be self-sustaining. It is to the point that we have often questioned if that was valued more than winning.
It is also why the release of revenue and expense figures for the 2015-16 fiscal year yesterday by the Lafayette Journal & Courier were so damning.