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The prompt was actually about football but there is a relative paucity of data that separates football revenue and costs from non-football revenue so Google provided me with what it could find.  This is partly because the biggest single revenue source for most schools is “media and broadcast rights”, which comes from the conference, and commingles football revenue with revenue from other sports.  It’s also because a non-insubstantial amount of cost is fixed in an athletics department (things like compliance, office of the director, etc.) that cannot be allocated to a particular sport.  Finally, while you could definitely cut a number of men’s sports (like baseball), Title IX prevents you from cutting a lot of women’s sports, so the costs of football sort of have to include the women’s sports that would offset the 105 male athletes that constitute the roster limit.

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The prompt was actually about football but there is a relative paucity of data that separates football revenue and costs from non-football revenue so Google provided me with what it could find.  This is partly because the biggest single revenue source for most schools is “media and broadcast rights”, which comes from the conference, and commingles football revenue with revenue from other sports.  It’s also because a non-insubstantial amount of cost is fixed in an athletics department (things like compliance, office of the director, etc.) that cannot be allocated to a particular sport.  Finally, while you could definitely cut a number of men’s sports (like baseball), Title IX prevents you from cutting a lot of women’s sports, so the costs of football sort of have to include the women’s sports that would offset the 105 male athletes that constitute the roster limit.

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