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Originally Posted by RainMaker
Cherry pick a number? 2/3rds of the teams lose money on the postseason. Some teams in BCS games lose millions. I'm sorry, but if you're trying to find smart business logic behind these guys, you're looking in the wrong place. They aren't businessmen, just look at their backgrounds. They get taken to the woodshed on a consistent basis.
The only guy with a business background is the one shitting on everyone else.
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It's cherry-picking because what does it matter if most teams lose a little bit of money on bowl games? How about looking at whether football programs are profitable? How about looking at the overall revenue brought in by college football?
Regarding bowl games - many conferences split proceeds from bowl games, so even if the lower-tiered bowl games cost their teams a bit of money, it's generally more than made up for by the big bowl profits.
The vast majority of football programs make a profit, and in many cases make a huge profit that subsidizes all other sports. Very few FBS programs lose money on football, and BCS conference schools pocketed more than $1B in profit last year with a 49% profit margin. So your alleged point about bowl game losses is a red herring.
If college football were so poorly managed from a business perspective, why are the major football conferences landing such mammoth TV contracts?