http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...tudy-finds

This article opens a can of worms for everything from 'true' cost of those athletic scholarships, etc.

One thing which is never apparent in any discussion of college football is Title IX.

Drop football and a school can also drop a few women's sports which exist primarily for Title IX considerations.

That said, most sports, called 'non-revenue' are truly non-revenue. Football because it involve the College Football Playoff, television and media rights, road game guarantees, etc. can produce significant income even with modest home gate income.

Bottom line question: In the MAC, does BASEBALL cost more than football? (baseball has large squads to travel across the country and also almost no income except what they get for going on the road).

Facilities, kind of an off-budget item, is a big issue for football. Sure basketball has an arena, etc. but that is used by men, women and other sports.

(04-24-2015 03:55 AM)emu steve Wrote:  http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...tudy-finds

This article opens a can of worms for everything from 'true' cost of those athletic scholarships, etc.

One thing which is never apparent in any discussion of college football is Title IX.

Drop football and a school can also drop a few women's sports which exist primarily for Title IX considerations.

That said, most sports, called 'non-revenue' are truly non-revenue. Football because it involve the College Football Playoff, television and media rights, road game guarantees, etc. can produce significant income even with modest home gate income.

Bottom line question: In the MAC, does BASEBALL cost more than football? (baseball has large squads to travel across the country and also almost no income except what they get for going on the road).

Facilities, kind of an off-budget item, is a big issue for football. Sure basketball has an arena, etc. but that is used by men, women and other sports.

Bowling and Rifle were the title IX sacrificial lambs

Something I've been told is that nearly every FBS football program makes money, and that it's generally used to prop up nonrevenue sports to some degree. Only a handful of athletic programs make a profit, though, because the deficit is usually more than football/basketball bring in.

(04-27-2015 11:17 PM)uakronkid Wrote:  Something I've been told is that nearly every FBS football program makes money, and that it's generally used to prop up nonrevenue sports to some degree. Only a handful of athletic programs make a profit, though, because the deficit is usually more than football/basketball bring in.

It also changes depending on how a school counts the money in house. In some schools they count stadium payments as part of the budget while others don't. That can make a huge change in budgets.

Also another concern for schools as a whole is that homecoming is often times one of the biggest if not THE biggest single day for donations to the university. So for instance let us say that while at the game the president of the university schmoozes up to a alumnus and convinces him/her to give $10,000 to the business school that probably does not show up in the bonus that football brings to the school even though that donation may not have happened without that football connection.