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Here are more details on this: https://augustafreepress.com/news/public-records-request-is-uva-baseball-a-revenue-sport-not-even-close/ https://augustafreepress

Here are more details on this: https://augustafreepress.com/news/public-records-request-is-uva-baseball-a-revenue-sport-not-even-close/ https://augustafreepress.com/news/public-records-request-is-... UVA baseball lost >$3 million in 2023 off of $1.7 million revenue. UVA football (a middling program) meanwhile is making a profit of over $20 million. Baseball is nowhere close to football. I'd be surprised if college baseball was making more revenue than minor league baseball.

sounds 1y ago
Adding the college men's basketball numbers, from [1]: 1. Duke University $45.1M 2. Syracuse University $34.2M 3. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $32.0M [1] https://www.2adays.com/blog/top-10-division-i-basketball-programs-by-revenue/ https://www.2adays.com/blog/top-10-division-i-basketball-pro...
ghaff 1y ago
As far as I know US collegiate baseball may be bigger at some schools but is mostly a marginal spectator thing overall. Hockey is certainly very regional but, in my experience, is a fairly big thing in the North especially at schools with good teams. In fact, I went to a school where hockey almost certainly had larger paid crowds than basketball.
- quickthrowman 1y ago
  There are 4x as many teams in the NCAA Div I national championships for basketball than there are for hockey. That being said, hockey is extremely popular at some schools; Gopher hockey is more popular (with both students and alumni) than Gopher basketball at the University of Minnesota.
  - ghaff 1y ago
    I always went to northern schools so my perception is probably skewed. Played intramurals in grad school with someone who went to Minnesota. I've just never gone anywhere that basketball was a particularly big deal (and was never into it myself). Hockey was the thing for my grad school crowds. But obviously college basketball is a big deal more broadly. Final four and all that.
    - quickthrowman 1y ago
      Yeah I’m from MN so my perspective is skewed too. 6 of the 64 schools with Div I NCAA hockey teams are located in my state, and 5 of them are small state or private schools. Massachusetts has 10, New York has 11, Michigan has 7. Over half of the Div I hockey teams are in the four states mentioned above.

sounds 1y ago

Adding the college men's basketball numbers, from [1]: 1. Duke University $45.1M 2. Syracuse University $34.2M 3. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $32.0M [1] https://www.2adays.com/blog/top-10-division-i-basketball-programs-by-revenue/ https://www.2adays.com/blog/top-10-division-i-basketball-pro...

ghaff 1y ago

As far as I know US collegiate baseball may be bigger at some schools but is mostly a marginal spectator thing overall. Hockey is certainly very regional but, in my experience, is a fairly big thing in the North especially at schools with good teams. In fact, I went to a school where hockey almost certainly had larger paid crowds than basketball.

quickthrowman 1y ago
There are 4x as many teams in the NCAA Div I national championships for basketball than there are for hockey. That being said, hockey is extremely popular at some schools; Gopher hockey is more popular (with both students and alumni) than Gopher basketball at the University of Minnesota.
- ghaff 1y ago
  I always went to northern schools so my perception is probably skewed. Played intramurals in grad school with someone who went to Minnesota. I've just never gone anywhere that basketball was a particularly big deal (and was never into it myself). Hockey was the thing for my grad school crowds. But obviously college basketball is a big deal more broadly. Final four and all that.
  - quickthrowman 1y ago
    Yeah I’m from MN so my perspective is skewed too. 6 of the 64 schools with Div I NCAA hockey teams are located in my state, and 5 of them are small state or private schools. Massachusetts has 10, New York has 11, Michigan has 7. Over half of the Div I hockey teams are in the four states mentioned above.