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Pay the players! That's the cry from groups who discount the treasure of the free education that college athletes receive. Usually the argument focuses on football and the tremendous amounts of money that top off tier NCAA Division I schools receive. However, the majority of schools actually turn a loss money on athletics and have to subsidize their athletic programs with student fees and other sources.
A USA Today analysis of the public schools in NCAA Division I shows that in the 2022-2014 active year, only 10% of the 230 schools traded had self-comfortable acrobatic programs. Beaver State tops the list with $196 million in revenue and $110.4 one thousand thousand in expenses, but they are not considered self-sufficient because the revenue total includes "in-kind facility gifts" of $95 trillion, courtesy of Nike founder Phil Horse. The unexhausted independent schools are every in four of the five major conferences: Big 12, Pac 12, Big Ten, and the SEC.
Look monetary resource just finished the prism of Division I football, in the same year as the USA Today analysis (2013-2014) the top 20 teams brought in $1.42 billion in revenue. That is somewhere in the crop of 50-60% of the whole gymnastic department revenue for these programs.
The SEC is unremarkably thought of as the big-money conference, but the Securities and Exchange Commission is tied with the Big Ten for spots in the top 20 in revenue with seven schools each. The Big 12 has three, the PAC-12 has 2 and the ACC has one.
Let's have a look at the top 20 in collective acrobatic program gross, aka the $100 Million Revenue Clubhouse, with football-only revenues/profits in parentheses.

  1. Oregon – $196 trillion in revenue, $110.4 million in expenses ($56 million revenue/$29 million profit).
  2. TX – $161 million in taxation, $154.1 million in expenses ($113 zillion revenue/$74 cardinal profit).
  3. Michigan – $157.9 1000000 in revenue, $142.6 billion in expenses ($91 million revenue/$65 million net profit).
  4. Alabama – $153.2 million in revenue, $120.2 million in expenses ($95 jillio tax revenue/$53 one thousand thousand profit).
  5. Buckeye State State – $145.2 zillion in taxation, $113.9 million in expenses ($66 zillion revenue/$39 million profit).
  6. LSU – $133.7 cardinal in taxation, $123 one thousand thousand in expenses ($88 jillio receipts/$50 jillio profits).
  7. Oklahoma – $129.2 1000000 in receipts, $113.4 million in expenses ($71 million revenue/$43 million profit).
  8. Wisconsin River – $127.9 million in revenue, $125.1 million in expenses ($47.3 million revenue, profit ex-directory).
  9. Florida – $124.6 million in tax income, $109.7 zillion in expenses ($69 million taxation/$46 million profit).
  10. Texas A&M – $119.5 1000000 in revenue, $95.7 million in expenses ($58 one thousand thousand revenue/$34 million profit).
  11. Oklahoma State – $117.8 million in revenue, $109.6 million in expenses ($49 million revenue/$39 one thousand thousand profit).
  12. Penn State – $117.6 million in revenue, $117.4 million in expenses ($68 million revenue/$37 million profit).
  13. Auburn – $113.7 million in revenue, $126.5 million in expenses ($50 million tax revenue/$39 million profit).
  14. Tennessee – $107.5 million in taxation, $106.2 million in expenses ($70 million revenue/$49 million profit).
  15. Minnesota – $106.2 trillion in revenue, $106.2 million in expenses ($39.8 million revenue, profit not listed).
  16. Iowa – $106 million in revenue, $102.3 million in expenses ($53.6 million revenue, profit not listed).
  17. Florida Tell – $104.8 jillio in revenue, $98.9 million in expenses ($57.4 million revenue, profit not listed).
  18. Wolverine State State – $104.7 one thousand thousand in revenue, $107.4 million in expenses ($53 meg revenue/$26 million net income).
  19. Georgia – $103.5 million in gross, $92.6 million in expenses ($77 million revenue/$39 million profit).
  20. Washington – $100.3 million in revenue, $86.1 million in expenses ($68 cardinal tax revenue/$39 million profit).

Private schools were not included in the USA Today analytic thinking, thus omitting unreal football schools such as Notre Dame and USC. Notre Dame would have come in fifth on the football revenue list with $81 trillion in football revenue and $48 billion in football win, and USC would have been 15th in revenue at $59 million with $29 million in profits.
High-football-revenue public schools that did not make the crown 20 in total athletic department tax income include Nebraska ($60 million football revenue and $36 meg in lucre), SC ($56 million football game revenue and $30 billion in profits), and Arkansas ($57 trillion football revenue and $29 million in profits).
Football is such a driver that the first cultivate with a top revenue sport other than football game is Louisville, at number 29 with basketball game receipts of $41 million.
Curious about your alma mater? Compare the lists of top sport past revenue, and the total NCAA athletic monetary resource rankings inclination. Once you get quondam the basketball team power conferences, it is noticeable from the subsidy levels that football becomes Thomas More of a burden than a immediate payment cow.
If players do get true payments instead of the stipends now being considered, it will be because the power conferences have split away from the NCAA completely and formed their own organization. If that happens, totally pretense of amateurism is destroyed and star college football becomes a stupendous business — overtly.

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