Let's keep cutting men's sports. Hey.... it's the economy now, not Title IX.
I find this reasoning amusing.
John Smith
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NCAA's Brand: Don't fault Title IX for Future Cuts
Author: ASA News
Blog URL: allstudentathletes.com/.../ncaabrandtitleix
Description:
Brand expects some schools to drop men's teams in coming months because
of the economic downturn. He is urging them in advance to cite the
economy, not the law that bans sex discrimination at schools receiving
federal funds.
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Go talk with Whitten about it...he's one of the folks who has been leading the charge on the whole "save college swimming" effort and according to him not a single one of the 100+ Div I college football programs including Ohio State & Texas is a money maker when you look at "tradtional" accounting methods of P&L....
I think this is all an issue of what they call revenue and what they call expenses (for football).
If football revenue is just ticket sales - then they probably spend more per year than ticket sales. The article below says UT had football revenue of $25M in 2006-2007. But they also had $8M from the Big 12 (shared revenues), $13.2M in donations, $6.4M in marketing agreements, etc. I bet Deloss Dodds carefully calculates how many leather couches and Playstations to install in the player's lounge based on revenue for all sources.
www.statesman.com/.../0930utsportsmain.html
Div1 football is a very expensive arms race and it costs big bucks to play.
Go talk with Whitten about it...he's one of the folks who has been leading the charge on the whole "save college swimming" effort and according to him not a single one of the 100+ Div I college football programs including Ohio State & Texas is a money maker when you look at "tradtional" accounting methods of P&L....
I think this is all an issue of what they call revenue and what they call expenses (for football).
If football revenue is just ticket sales - then they probably spend more per year than ticket sales. The article below says UT had football revenue of $25M in 2006-2007. But they also had $8M from the Big 12 (shared revenues), $13.2M in donations, $6.4M in marketing agreements, etc. I bet Deloss Dodds carefully calculates how many leather couches and Playstations to install in the player's lounge based on revenue for all sources.
www.statesman.com/.../0930utsportsmain.html
Div1 football is a very expensive arms race and it costs big bucks to play.
