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> [log in to unmask] perhaps mentioned:
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> "...big ten size of schools have the budgets to fly around and play each
> other..."
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> Is this true?  Only recently did the University of Wisconsin's athletic
> department start operating in the black, if I'm not mistaken.
 
 
 
They operated in the black for years until the football program fell apart in
the late 80s and early 90s.  After they brought in Alvarez, the department went
from being $3 million in the red to $2 million in the black following their Rose
Bowl win.  Most of which can be attributed to the fact that their attendance
went from around 40,000 to 70,000 a game, generating somewhere between $400,000
and $500,000 per game in additional revenue.
 
-----Craig Roberts
 
"You can take the boy out of Wisconsin, but you can't take Wisconsin out of the
boy."
 
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