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Aug 2, 2020
1:26:57pm
califcougar Truly Addicted User
Yes it is, NFL players only get 48% and the revenue from the lowest earning NFL
team the Jaguars, more than triples the highest earning public (Washington) Pac 12 school's entire athletic department revenue. They also are demanding to keep non revenue-generating sports which is an added expense the NFL does not have.

Cal for example only generated $92 million last year, if they shared $46 million with students that only leaves $46 million to cover team travel , equipment, cost of running events, debt service($10m after main campus took on a bunch) , tutors, coaches, other admin support, marketing for football games, recruiting, overhead, and other expenses.
Total cost of sports other than football and basketball was $28 million at Cal (that doesn't include their share of $23m for admin and overhead that isn't allocated to a specific sport, it does include about $7.5 million in the value of student scholarships) , those sports generated only $9 million in revenue.

If you include meals, scholarships, and medical expenses as part of the revenue sharing, that all cost around $16m last year. With 50-50 revenue sharing you are talking about adding a $30m expense to an athletic department that operated at a $20m loss last year. Sure they could shave some admin costs and cut coaching salaries but that isn't going to get them $50m.

Plus, COVID has taken a giant bite out of athletic department revenues, which would cut any revenue sharing figure down but also leaves way less money to cover the many fixed costs departments are facing.
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