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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 239587, member: 780"] Your comments might be germaine if this were a conversation about revenue. It's not. It's about the amount of support that the different sports generate on campus and in the hearts and minds of the alumni and fans. If you want to talk about revenue, then you might also want to comment on profitability or revenue minus costs. An AD onc told me --- only somewhat tongue in cheek --- that you could run a basketball program for the cost of the athletic tape a football program uses in a year. The point is that especially at SU the basketball program is hugey more profitable than the football program. The last time SU was a football school was in the 1960's. I'd be willing to bet that if the alumni were forced to choose between having a football program and having a basketball program, the majority would choose basketball over football. [/QUOTE]