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[QUOTE="DJSpanky, post: 1772330, member: 4828"]
We support 23 sports, and only 2 of them make money. At one point WBB was close to breaking even, but the last couple of years their attendance has been very poor and they're in the red.

Someone asked how our BBall program could be doing so poorly and still making money: it comes down to the fact that there's no cost on the facilities for them (and the downside of that is our facilities for BBall suck!) so it comes down to scholarships, salaries, support costs and travel.

Another item mentioned above was how could our football program be turning a profit. As Pharm73 alluded to, it comes down to ticket sales and associated revenue. Even with the wretched season in 2015, we still averaged 47.7K in attendance at 7 home games. Now that was down a bit from 2014, but still decent. Compare that to 10 years ago: in 2005 we averages 33.2K for 6 home games. Combine that with the increase in ticket prices, parking prices and seat gifts for the better sections, and that produces a significant chunk of revenue.
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