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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
This is the kind of ignorance I was referring to. The $770m from March Madness is taken by the NCAA and used to fund 98% of its operations, as well as feed the mouths of 200+ D1 athletic programs who would die without it. Football money is not taken by the NCAA, is kept by schools and conferences.
If we took the $770m and divided it by the 63 games played in the NCAA tourney, that's $12m/game. KU played 6 games last year, meaning they should've gotten 36M simply based on performance. But basketball funds everything, football funds yourself. Hence your (skewed) numbers.
The total money, tv ratings, fan attendance, ad revenue, etc etc generated from basketball & football is actually much more similar than you think and that's the point folks like you continue to miss.
We're not talking about the NFL here, which is of course the undisputed king of sports in America. We're talking college sports.
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http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/GroupDet...303a353720504d
Very true but the point remains the same. The example you referenced is not the way it's divied up in football either in terms of post season scratch. Take the "$36 million dollar #, less expenses, and spread them among their 10 cohorts same as postseason bowl games. Now you'd have to add in what the others did too in the league for an apples to apples comparison but that $770 million in sum ain't comin' close to making up the difference which w/o it is roughly a third of what football generates.
The numbers off the link are from 2011.
This isn't a debated point outside the circles of some (most know better) fans of basketball schools.
Also, in terms of the NFL the article the other dude posted compared the two hence my reply.