# Big Money and US College Football

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** football-nfl\
**Created:** [August 6, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-money-and-us-college-football/988149 "2023-08-06T17:26:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-money-and-us-college-football/988149/35 "2023-08-21T19:11:53Z")

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> [@Kropotkin](#):
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> I stand to be corrected, but I think this article makes a different argument
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> [I found 18 profitable & 211 money-losing NCAA Division-I public athletic programs in 2020](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-found-18-profitable-211-money-losing-ncaa-public-scott-hirko-ph-d-)

This is an impressive, concise piece of analysis. But to really nail down whether a football program is profitable you’d need to include alumni contributions in revenue–more specifically, _how much_ of alumni contributions are a result of the team’s success. I don’t see how this study does this. But I too stand to be corrected.

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