Um, you obviously have never been in or around Clemson football. It's big time football. Stadium seats 82,000 and is top 20 in attendance and revenue, more than ND in fact (attendance only). Football revenue is north of $35 million, hardly small school numbers. I suggest you take a trip to Death Valley on a Fall Saturday. This excludes the fact that everyone who roots for Clemp's Son has to have 7 or 8 stickers on their car and contribute to IPTAY.
Good grief...my intention wasn't to offend anyone regarding the status of Clemson football.
The only numbers I can find for Clemson's football revenue was from 2007-2008, where they brought in a little lesss than $60 million, good for 30th in the country. Lots of money, to be sure, but less than half the $120 million the top school (Texas) took in. Most of the top 10 were $100 million and above.
That's a big disparity, and that's what I'm talking about. When you're pulling in $100 million on football, you can afford to throw $4-5 million at your football coach and still have plenty left over for your other teams. When you're only bringing in half that, then you start having to make decisions, like we'll give the football coach another million, but we'll have to lose the swim team.
Even if I'm wrong about Clemson, specifically, that doesn't mean it isn't a problem.
Um, you obviously have never been in or around Clemson football. It's big time football. Stadium seats 82,000 and is top 20 in attendance and revenue, more than ND in fact (attendance only). Football revenue is north of $35 million, hardly small school numbers. I suggest you take a trip to Death Valley on a Fall Saturday. This excludes the fact that everyone who roots for Clemp's Son has to have 7 or 8 stickers on their car and contribute to IPTAY.
Good grief...my intention wasn't to offend anyone regarding the status of Clemson football.
The only numbers I can find for Clemson's football revenue was from 2007-2008, where they brought in a little lesss than $60 million, good for 30th in the country. Lots of money, to be sure, but less than half the $120 million the top school (Texas) took in. Most of the top 10 were $100 million and above.
That's a big disparity, and that's what I'm talking about. When you're pulling in $100 million on football, you can afford to throw $4-5 million at your football coach and still have plenty left over for your other teams. When you're only bringing in half that, then you start having to make decisions, like we'll give the football coach another million, but we'll have to lose the swim team.
Even if I'm wrong about Clemson, specifically, that doesn't mean it isn't a problem.
