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Title: "Alabama, Penn State most profitable athletic departments"
Post by: Chechem on March 23, 2012, 05:38:20 AM
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/22/bama-penn-state-most-profitable-athletic-departments/

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BusinessOfCollegeSports.com website reports that 47 of the 66 athletic departments with a football program in a BcS conference made a net profit for 2010-2011.  There were actually 48 schools listed by the site on the positive side of the financial ledger, with Notre Dame, which is a member of the Big East in other sports besides independent football program, coming in inside the Top Ten among individual institutions.

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The six-time defending BcS conference [ THAT WOULD BE THE SEC  :) ], though, is certainly not hurting financially, with eight of its 12 members in the Top 26 in net income and just one athletic department — Ole Miss — that didn’t realize a profit.  Tennessee is on the very low end of the SEC profit spectrum with a meager $14,447; the next lowest total from a member of that conference is South Carolina at $762,726.


Title: Re: "Alabama, Penn State most profitable athletic departments"
Post by: Hannibal Lecter, MD on March 23, 2012, 07:55:04 AM
I hate when people incorrectly use the term "BCS conference."  Every conference in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision is a BCS conference by definition.  People use the phrase actually meaning an "Automatic Qualifier" conference (i.e. one whose champion has an automatic birth into a BCS game).


Title: Re: "Alabama, Penn State most profitable athletic departments"
Post by: Jamos on March 23, 2012, 08:11:00 AM
Winning games sure makes a difference in making a profit and not making a profit.  ;)


Title: Re: "Alabama, Penn State most profitable athletic departments"
Post by: Leewillie on March 23, 2012, 11:46:23 AM
Who said college football is not Big Business?

I wonder how many Pro franchises are as profitable as Bama and Penn State?