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I looked up the latest revenue figures and if you take the
the top hundred seventeen teams in what's now known as the football bowl subdivision
division one-a
and that excludes the military academies that don't have to report these matters
the top
quarter of those teams so the top twenty nine or so
average in football revenues forty six million dollars
the next quarter
most of that by the way curiously is from gate receipts isn't it
it's it's
not not not not
not more than fifty percent of it is from gate receipts but a but
larger amount is from gate receipts than anything else including television and I think that's
a surprise actually
I mean the programs that have the hundred thousand seat stadiums Michigan ohio state
and Penn state and tennessee have a tremendous advantage there and it's not just the number
of people you can put in the stadium it's the dollars per seat you can charge because
they have waiting lists there so you can sell premium seating and you can have luxury suites and all that sort of thing
licenses to get a seat
so forty six million on average for the
for the top
twenty five percent of the teams and that starts at the top with texas with eighty seven million
dollars in two thousand eight generated by football
out of a total
athletic
budget not budget total revenues for the athletic department of Texas of a hundred and
thirty eight million dollars I mean just astonishing numbers
I'm surprised they make fifty million from other things yeah yeah
but but some of that is probably indirectly football related conference pay offs
and all that
but forty six million for that
that top quarter the next quarter the average is twenty two million
the next quarter the average is ten point three million
and the bottom quarter the average is four point six million
now the the difference between four point six million and forty six or eighty seven
is enormous
you know when you get down to the
to the you know the lower
third or so of %uh
of %uh
even the BCS schools
these are all losing money on athletics they maybe earning marginally a little
bit of money on football but they're losing money Boise state you know kind of the
you know the dream team of the
of the non BCS conference is getting to
two BCS bowls
did they get to two or just the one I think to two
%uh but they they had a a net profit in their football program of
ninety thousand dollars in two thousand eight and this is
you know among the very best that you can do outside the top conferences
so it's an immensely expensive thing for those programs towards
you know not too far down and then towards the bottom
connecticut wants to come in and buffalo wanted to come in
and they're going to be having to compete with texas with eighty seven million dollars
and actually even schools like well maybe not texas well here let me put it this way
when you include the full cost including the cost of the stadiums
the interest you have to pay and so forth
%uh there's only what half a dozen that make money on their football programs well
the NCAA has calculated that somewhere between like nineteen and twenty four
depending on the year
will will make a real profit on athletics overall %uh
%uh in any given year and
you know a smaller number of those will consistently make money
you know and we're talking about you know
a dozen and a half to two dozen programs out of the hundred and twenty in the football
bowl sub division and then you have to add on all the other %uh
division one double A's and so on on top of that