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Message: [QUOTE="DownTheField, post: 3632816, member: 196"] If we’re only keeping sports that are profitable how long is it before the only men’s sports are football and basketball (and in SU’s case, maybe lacrosse)? It seems like the majority of profit comes from conference payouts and while olympic sports are part of these conference, it all gets funneled to football programs and they claim they can’t afford the other sports. The Big 10 distributed like $55 mil to each school last year. SU was able to keep olympic sports when they were getting like 3 million bucks a year from the Big East. The smaller sports wouldn’t have these funding issues if they were playing teams within their region but unfortunately they don’t have that option because they’re wrapped up in these big conference television contracts that end up paying for football. [/QUOTE]