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BlueTX said:
This seems pretty misleading. The vast majority of college athletic programs are subsidized by the schools and/or by student fees. A small percentage of the educational institutions that participate in college athletics rake in the majority of the money and an even smaller percentage of the schools operate at a profit. For instance, yes, there are a couple of dozen big schools packing the stands at 90-100,000 each of 6 home football games per year yet the average attendance at D1 schools is 40,000 per game so the big schools skew the average. The average attendance for FCS schools is 7800, DII schools is 3000 and DIII schools is less than 2000 per game. There are 669 schools that play NCAA-level football (does not include junior colleges that play). Only 130 of them are in D1.

As for minor league sports, the system for baseball has been around for more than 100 years and has done reasonably well. Yet even before COVID-19 the major leagues now want to cut back on subsidies (they provide/pay the players) and it will cause a contraction in the number of minor league teams. Oh, BTW, the major leagues pay minor league players LESS than minimum wage and are legally entitled to since they got Congress to agree that minor league players are "seasonal workers".

"Minor" football leagues routinely fail. Colleges are the feeders for the NFL.

The NBA G-league averages just under 2,500 fans per game.
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Our university pays 6 million a year into the football program to cover the 6 million a year loss--and they do this every year (we are not a big name university football program). Most university football programs don't make much money; though some big-name programs such as LSU, Notre Dame, Penn State, and others do turn a profit.
 
verreauxi said:
Our university pays 6 million a year into the football program to cover the 6 million a year loss--and they do this every year (we are not a big name university football program). Most university football programs don't make much money; though some big-name programs such as LSU, Notre Dame, Penn State, and others do turn a profit.
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Yes. The very point I was making. Schools like LSU and Texas have the ability to pour money back into academic programs. But they are exceptions to the general rule, which is more like your university. Thanks for confirming.
 
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