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Muskie
06-16-2013, 08:46 PM
Link (http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/06/16/florida-gulf-coast-university-collects-about-15000-during-first-quarter-of-2013/)

FGCU receives an 8 percent royalty on the wholesale price — not retail price — of officially licensed merchandise, and splits that revenue with Licensing Resource Group. A T-shirt that sells for $20, for example, may only carry a wholesale price of $5, which would generate a royalty of 40 cents. LRG’s cut would be 14 cents, leaving just 26 cents for FGCU. For the period that ran Jan. 1 to March 31, royalties totaled $22,017 on $293,119 of wholesale sales, the vast majority coming from apparel sales.

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So they tripled their take, but it is still a drop in the bucket.

xubrew
06-17-2013, 10:46 AM
If FGCU is like many other schools, they probably sign new licensing agreement very soon, and this one will be much more lucrative for them.

I still cannot believe what FGCU did. It may not be the biggest surprise in college basketball history, but I do think it was the biggest surprise of my lifetime.