09-18-2019, 12:32 AM
Dennis S wrote:
Without football teams, it would be almost impossible to have baseball, basketball, track and field, soccer, swimming, volleyball, tennis, and on and on.
You might think so, but there are many schools who have done so. In any case, the football program here has been a sinkhole for money for nearly a decade since going to FBS. That has actually resulted in money being taken from sports like you mentioned.
The reality is at most schools, including at the FBS level, football does no better than break even. Many programs are run at a loss. This was the results of a study commissioned by a former head of the NCAA.