Alabama sports revenue report.Astounding how much $ is thrown at women’s sports

ESPN still tries to gaslight us into thinking people give a shite about women’s basketball

Men’s Golf has 1.2 million more in revenue than women’s basketball

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Kinda shocked baseball is that low. I figure schools like LSU, Arkansas, etc actually make money on their baseball programs

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Outside of Arkansas, State, Ole Miss, LSU and I think South Carolina I don’t think any SEC program makes money on baseball

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ESPN still tries to gaslight us into thinking people give a shite about women’s basketball

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I’ve definitely noticed a huge effort to promote women’s sports, not just at ESPN but also at the schools. Like most woke DEI initiatives, it didn’t work and cost a ton of money.

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I figure schools like LSU, Arkansas, etc actually make money on their baseball programs

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we used to make money, but with how much you have to pay coaches now, we're several hundred grand in the red now. The baseball program does bring in a lot of revenue, though. The travel is what kills baseball. In the last fiscal year, baseball was second to only football in travel expenses at 2.1 million. But our baseball team was only a few million less in total revenue than mens basketball and had 4x greater revenues than womens basketball. Womens basketball is actually the biggest loser in the department. They operated at a loss of almost 8 million last year, and that's with them actually being a good program. Overall, the department had a surplus right in the ballpark of Alabama at over $30 million with football having a net surplus of $64 million

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Interesting…..if LSU isn’t making money in baseball no one probably is.

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I think Tennessee actually made a profit last year iirc, but even when we did operate in the black in was a couple/few hundred grand. But once good coaches started making/demanding legit wages, that kind of went out the window. Skip Bertman never made more than a few hundred grand a year. Jay Johnson made like 1.7 million last year and then got a raise to 3 million after winning another CWS title. We sell out every game at one of the biggest stadiums in the country. It's just an expensive sport with how much travel is involved and not having the TV deals football and basketball have to offset the costs.

How does Men's Golf earn almost $2 million?

They aren't on TV that often (softball and women's basketball are on TV much more).

I assume that they include donations? So they may include a $1 million donation for naming rights on a golf facility?

I doubt it's all from merch, either.

All this tells me is that more schools need to promote college tennis. Could actually be a break-even sport because of low expenses

Yikes. Swimming and Diving kids at every school better be graduating at a 100% rate and thanking every athletic department employee they come across.

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I’ve definitely noticed a huge effort to promote women’s sports, not just at ESPN but also at the schools.

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They do some sneaky shite on their website during basketball season by putting headlines about games but not mentioning that it is women's. They want casual followers to see a headline like "Duke and UNC have overtime thriller" and you find out it is the women's teams when you click on it. They do it to create the illusion of interest in women's sports.