Dave Hedrickson wrote:
 
>>From the NCAA study posted by RichardH:
>> Football and men's and
>> women's basketball accounted for 43 percent of athletics
>> expenditures. Men's basketball accounted for 26 percent of all
>> revenues, football 23 percent and women's basketball 2 percent.
 
>The previous comments that football was a big money loser at all but
>a couple of schools would seem to be disputed by these figures.  According
>to this, men's football and basketball together account for 49 percent of
>all revenues while those two sports plus women's basketball account for 43
>percent of all athletic expenditures.
 
This is true if you assume that revenues = expenditures.  I have a feeling that athletic departments have sources of funding besides what would be included in "revenues", in which case it is very likely that football, etc lose money.
 
Robb Newman
 
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