I think he's referring to women's. And hell yes thy are in the red. Now, I'm not saying add more reserved. Just pointing out we are big time in the red on women's hoops.
Printable View
The problem is that many people around Starkville now choose to go to the women's games because they cannot afford to go to the men's and women's. Women's is cheaper. Nothing wrong with that per se, but it increases the problem because men's crowds go down, thus revenue has suffered.
Every woman's sport is a drain on the SEC budget- women's basketball included
Women's sports have never made money. They never will. Football is the Cash Cow that funds everything. breaking even with Men's basketball is a good thing, if you can do it. TV money is the key that opens all our doors. If you want the HUMP to be rocking again quit putting all the games on TV and win. that is 2 big keys. why do you think Pro Football used to black out home games that were not sell outs.
I don?t quite understand one particular part of your post. And this isn?t specific to you, it?s an observation of our current society.
C34 stated that women?s sports are a drain on the funding. If you can refute this with facts please do, because the books back up his statement. So therefore C34 simply restated something that should be a known truth. Yet you respond that he feels a certain way? Because he states a fact?
Hell most men?s sports lose money in collegiate athletics. These are all facts, not feelings. So why respond that you are sad that he feels this way about women?s basketball? He said nothing that even included an emotional.
I see this everywhere on twitter and such. If a truth goes against what one hopes or wishes of how something should be, they attempt to attach an emotion to it, in order to alter the truth.
So when college kids leave football games early because we are getting skull drug or when they don't show up for an 11 am kick off when it is 90 degrees it is the Millennial jerk kids fault. When adults and older fans don't show up to basketball games that matter it is the Administration's fault. Got it.
Administration keeps selling season tickets to people that don't show up instead of focusing on selling them to people that'll make 80% of the games and live within 30 minutes of the Hump. Administration split up the students and alienated all the fans that were buying season tickets for years. So yes it is the administrations fault for not correcting their errors
Seems like I read an article once that there was only around 2 to 4 women's basketball programs that actually either break even or made a small profit. UT was one and maybe UConn was the other. Baseball is actually pretty similar in profitability. Pretty much football and the NCAA tournament is where the NCAAs make all of their money for the most part.