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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 3570597, member: 6911"] You know, I have a problem with the deficit shown for women's basketball. Just doesn't make sense. Now, I might be all wet, but it would seem that the program's cash costs are relatively low. Yes, there's Coach Geno's salary (what, $1.8 million or so?). But the ass't coaches can't earn all that much. Yes, recruiting travel and hotels. But other than that, the student-athletes' tuitions are not actual cash costs, but seats in lecture halls. Their cash outlays are for food and uniforms and travel. But the program gets SNY revenues, it gets ESPN revenues, and revenues when its games are carried on other for-fee broadcasting, fees for games from other universities, parking and ticket sales revenues. And then when it gets to the top levels of the NCAA tourney, it gets more revenues. And then there are AAC (Big East to be) revenues and tournament moneys. Women's basketball is nothing like football with its huge equipment costs and a phalanx of coaches, assistant coaches, and others. So where is this big $3.5 million cost coming from? I suspect that if we delve into it, we'll see a huge amount of athletic department overhead is being allocated to women's basketball that doesn't rightly belong there. I mean, does it make sense that a football team that draws few fans, carries about a hundred players, plus a mountain of coaches, would lose $13.3 million, while a team of just a dozen student-athletes with three assistant coaches that draws thousands of fans and gets television and tourney revenue would lose $3.5 million? Somehow, the differential is too small to make sense. Honestly, if the numbers, including overhead allocation, were put under a financial microscope, I would be willing to bet that an argument could be made that women's basketball makes a hefty profit, not a loss. Nothing to go on, except a wet finger in the wind, and a healthy skepticism. [/QUOTE]

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