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Apr 1, 2020
4:27:23pm

Ham All-American

Dear college athletes: You're welcome. Sincerely, football.

When you hear things from ADs like "football allows us to have other sports," this is what they mean.

Take #LSU. Here are profit/loss numbers from each LSU sport in the 2016-17 cycle, from my time as a beat writer.

- Football: $56M in profit
- Other sports: ~$23M in losses pic.twitter.com/3Giw1YrdZF
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) March 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1245087809440026624

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Ham

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Dear college athletes: You're welcome. Sincerely, football.

Ham

4/1/20 4:27pm

This is why the whole “equal pay” for male/female athletes is so ridiculous.

Samsonite

4/1/20 4:29pm

It's more nuanced than that, and this is for amateur sports not professional

jhingman

4/1/20 4:31pm

I know, but same principle applies to pro sports.

Samsonite

4/1/20 4:33pm

Even greater disparity in pros I'd bet.

South_A

4/2/20 9:32am

It’s why I sort of root for the WNT to lose

4/1/20 4:35pm

Except more people watch the women's team than the men's team.

Tortillero

4/1/20 7:06pm

It's the only sport where this is true but it is true.

jcase16byu

4/1/20 9:37pm

But it’s about money and US Soccer gets more money from FIFA for the men’s team.

califcougar

4/1/20 9:52pm

Didn't know that. Interesting

Resurgens

4/1/20 10:39pm

USMNT is like the Indiana and Vanderbilt of World Soccer.

StalwartBraveTrue

4/2/20 12:05am

They have different unions, different CBAs, and therefore different terms of

califcougar

4/2/20 7:58am

US Soccer has a pot of money. They get it from different sources but it is

StalwartBraveTrue

4/2/20 9:40am

This is exactly my point, the soccer money isn't coming from attendance

4/2/20 9:28am

Yeah, I think if we looked at the numbers more people are probably enthusiastic

Resurgens

4/1/20 10:39pm

RE: Except more people watch the women's team than the men's team.

gww687

4/1/20 10:46pm

Women's Beach Volleyball makes money. I try to support them by watching it.

TeeKaa

4/1/20 7:22pm

RE: Women's Beach Volleyball makes money. I try to support them by watching it.

8Bcougar

4/1/20 11:55pm

It’s more about how the pay scale is derived that is the problem.

StalwartBraveTrue

4/1/20 11:58pm

Thank you.

RdF3

4/1/20 8:57pm

This wouldn't be the same profile at every school of course. BYU's women's

ManicBlue

4/1/20 11:23pm

When I saw the numbers for BYU

AZ Coug

4/1/20 11:27pm

Women's soccer and volleyball both draw very well too. I'm sure they're not

ManicBlue

4/2/20 12:22am

All the students coming on the free pass from when they buy football tickets?

Fdnman

4/2/20 5:36am

Have you been to women's soccer? Lots of season ticket holders / paying customers at every game.

4/2/20 7:20am

The ROC passes is not for football with everything else free. They're for ALL

ManicBlue

4/2/20 8:36pm

Men's volleyball isn't profitable? That would surprise me a little bit.

Ham

4/2/20 10:18am

Most attending are students and they don’t pay.

StalwartBraveTrue

4/2/20 10:59am

I would bet most SEC schools baseball teams pull a profit. But it's also only

ordinary tri guy

4/2/20 8:48am

I'd like to see the numbers for connecticut

4/2/20 7:00am

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