{"id":674807,"date":"2026-03-23T16:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/674807\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:46:16","slug":"florida-boosted-mens-basketball-spending-27-before-25-title-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/674807\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida boosted men\u2019s basketball spending 27% before \u201925 title run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">The Univ. of Florida\u2019s faith in men\u2019s basketball coach Todd Golden\u2019s future success led to \u201ca 27% spending increase after his second season ahead of the 2025 Gators\u2019 national title run,\u201d according to Edgar Thompson of the ORLANDO SENTINEL. His program\u2019s budget increased to $14.08M, according to the Gators\u2019 2024-25 NCAA annual financial report. The coaching salary pool increased 32.9% to $4.5M, a figure \u201cset to rise dramatically\u201d after the Gators\u2019 national title earned Golden a six-year, $40.5M deal through 2031. Meanwhile, the Gators\u2019 appearance in the 2024 Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa generated $1.18M of expenses during former football coach Billy Napier\u2019s second postseason appearance in his four seasons. Napier and his staff received $1.497M in bonuses. Football \u201cmore than doubled the investment.\u201d The program generated $117.2M in revenue against $52M in operating costs, or a profit of almost $65.2M. The school\u2019s University Athletic Association\u2019s overall revenue of $221M represents a $16M bump. The UAA\u2019s $200.99M in expenses are down from $205.1M, per the school\u2019s reporting (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/03\/20\/university-of-florida-athletics-association-mens-basketball-todd-golden-billy-napier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/03\/20\/university-of-florida-athletics-association-mens-basketball-todd-golden-billy-napier\/\">ORLANDO SENTINEL, 3\/20<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Univ. of Florida\u2019s faith in men\u2019s basketball coach Todd Golden\u2019s future success led to \u201ca 27% spending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,5486,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-674807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-college-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116279508573375467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}