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I've read that football teams are actually a revenue generator for universities. However you're absolutely right about insane amounts of wasted money on bureau

I've read that football teams are actually a revenue generator for universities. However you're absolutely right about insane amounts of wasted money on bureaucracy.

jojobas 3y ago
Revenue maybe, but profit? They do it for "prestige".
jimbokun 3y ago
They are only revenue generators for the semi-pro teams with big TV contracts.
- DragonStrength 3y ago
  Which includes most of our best public engineering schools. Big 10 and SEC schools pump out a whole bunch of engineers.
  - lbrandy 3y ago
    > most Well... "a few" is probably more accurate. https://twitter.com/tjaltimore/status/1763571057703723344?s=46&t=kiBDOwwp2utSbyjtjSZcbw https://twitter.com/tjaltimore/status/1763571057703723344?s=...
    - joshuamorton 3y ago
      You've subtly changed the argument here. That's the athletic department as a whole. At my alma mater, which is on that list as one where the athletics department costs 500-1000 per student, our football team (which is consistently mediocre) and basketball team were, as far as I know, profitable, and subsidized other D1 sports. I believe that cost also covers the funding for things like intramural sports, the student athletics complex (gym), and various other athletics adjacent things that are student-services shaped, and not D1-sports shaped.
anon291 3y ago
football teams are a revenue generator for the top few universities that have football teams worth following. For all the strivers out there, they're not.
mrguyorama 3y ago
There is not a single school in my state that makes a "profit" on any of it's sports programs. Anything outside of D1 has no chance in hell on making money from sports. Meanwhile these 3rd rate sports programs keep getting sanctioned for giving athletes under the table scholarships, which isn't allowed in lower tier schools.

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I've read that football teams are actually a revenue generator for universities. However you're absolutely right about insane amounts of wasted money on bureau

by hasty_pudding 3y ago

I've read that football teams are actually a revenue generator for universities. However you're absolutely right about insane amounts of wasted money on bureaucracy.

jojobas 3y ago
Revenue maybe, but profit? They do it for "prestige".
jimbokun 3y ago
They are only revenue generators for the semi-pro teams with big TV contracts.
- DragonStrength 3y ago
  Which includes most of our best public engineering schools. Big 10 and SEC schools pump out a whole bunch of engineers.
  - lbrandy 3y ago
    > most Well... "a few" is probably more accurate. https://twitter.com/tjaltimore/status/1763571057703723344?s=46&t=kiBDOwwp2utSbyjtjSZcbw https://twitter.com/tjaltimore/status/1763571057703723344?s=...
    - joshuamorton 3y ago
      You've subtly changed the argument here. That's the athletic department as a whole. At my alma mater, which is on that list as one where the athletics department costs 500-1000 per student, our football team (which is consistently mediocre) and basketball team were, as far as I know, profitable, and subsidized other D1 sports. I believe that cost also covers the funding for things like intramural sports, the student athletics complex (gym), and various other athletics adjacent things that are student-services shaped, and not D1-sports shaped.
anon291 3y ago
football teams are a revenue generator for the top few universities that have football teams worth following. For all the strivers out there, they're not.
mrguyorama 3y ago
There is not a single school in my state that makes a "profit" on any of it's sports programs. Anything outside of D1 has no chance in hell on making money from sports. Meanwhile these 3rd rate sports programs keep getting sanctioned for giving athletes under the table scholarships, which isn't allowed in lower tier schools.