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Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 40345 Location: Dirty South
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:23 pm Post subject: Why College Football matters.... |
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https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1245087809440026624
Quote: | Ross Dellenger✔
@RossDellenger
When you hear things from ADs like "football allows us to have other sports," this is what they mean.
Take #LSU. Here are profit/loss numbers from each LSU sport in the 2016-17 cycle, from my time as a beat writer.
- Football: $56M in profit
- Other sports: ~$23M in losses |
@ LSU, it pays for every other sport except Men's Basketball and Baseball. Every young man or woman that gets to compete or a scholarship in swimming, tennis, soccer, golf, etc. at a major conference school needs the football program to cover the bill. Even at basketball schools like Kentucky and Duke, football dwarfs basketball in annual revenue.
LSU Chart |
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