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Response to football funding myth |
| the NCAA says the average D1 university spends approx $13 million on athletics (not counting capital expenditures), half of which is spent on football. If the average "profit" generated by football is less than $2 mil, it's easy to see that - on average - football programs contribute maybe a third of what is spent on the other athletic programs.
And at a third of D1 schools, the football program operates in the red, or breaks even. Football doesn't come close to paying for all the other sports.
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| Responses- So if football is not profitable, imagine the rest of the sports?? - Anonymous on Jul 8, 4:20 PM
- You could use the same argument to eliminate nearly all extra-curricular activities. - Anonymous on Jul 9, 4:24 PM
- Not a good analogy to football - Anonymous on Jul 9, 9:00 PM
- how do you know? - Anonymous on Jul 10, 9:27 AM
- I know because I have a brain that can draw "logical" conclusions - Anonymous on Jul 10, 10:08 PM
- oh, you mean you can guess, based on what you believe to be true - Anonymous on Jul 11, 9:09 AM
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