On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, J. Michael Neal wrote:
 
> For Miami and Bowling Green, football is absolutely a money loser.
 
The BGSU athletic department, given what I know about some of their
sources of income, has just got to be raking in the dough.
 
Each student, of the ~18 thousand here, is forced to give the athletic
department $400 per semester whether they want to or not.  That's similar
in price to buying a ticket to every singe intercollegiate event here.
That's also $7.2 million to the athletic department just from the general
fee per semester.  That doesn't even include tickets purchased by people
outside the student body or concessions or parking or any other possible
source of income.
 
In the case of BG hockey, it adds up to a paid attendance of around
20,000 to every game, no matter the number of butts in the seats.
 
I don't really know how much it costs to run an athletic department for a
semester, but I'm sure $7 million would do nicely to help keep it afloat.
So, basically, it doesn't matter whether football or hockey or soccer or
synchronized swimming or whatever makes money.
 
Keep in mind, this is in the case of BGSU or any other school with this scam.
 
 
> Only creative bookeeping and subsidies from the rest of the University keep
> athletic departments afloat.
 
Or students being forced to pay for what they don't necessarily want.
 
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