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It's not entirely clear what year those numbers refer to. Overall, the 2019-2022 period seems to have been extremely unprofitable: https://www.latimes.com/sport
by microtherion 4y ago
It's not entirely clear what year those numbers refer to. Overall, the 2019-2022 period seems to have been extremely unprofitable: https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2023-01-26/ucla-athletics-budget-lower-deficit-big-ten-conference https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2023-01-26/ucla-at...
But even IF this were a profitable activity, should a university really be in the business of running an enterprise that literally causes irreversible brain damage (Story about USC, but undoubtedly applies to all football programs: https://www.si.com/college/2020/10/07/usc-and-its-dying-linebackers https://www.si.com/college/2020/10/07/usc-and-its-dying-line...)?
- explaininjs 4y agoYou’re confusing the football program for the athletic program as a whole. If you scroll down in the link I posted you’ll see every other athletic program at UCLA is indeed running at a significant loss. Football is the only profitable one. With respect to the brain damage, he spent much longer in the professional setting than college, it’s more likely the damage came from there. I don’t think colleges should be in the business of restricting what students should be allowed to explore based on the possibility they might choose a career where brain damage may occur. And if they did, Engineering should be the first to go. Just think of all the brain damage resulting from professionals engineers of the military industrial complex!
- microtherion 4y agoNote that the article is not just about Junior Seau. Of the 12 linebackers who played in the USC team he was in, 5 died before age 50, and he was the only one of them with a significant NFL career (another one played a single season, the other 3 never played professional football).