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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4602919, member: 71"] I don't think this is true and if it is it will spell the end of most olympic sports on a collegiate level. With the exception of a individual few niche situations, none of these sports generate close to enough revenue to support themselves. People b!tc# about football constantly but football plays an enormous role in the existence of track & field, swimming & diving, wrestling (where it exists), gymnastics (where it exists) even tennis and baseball/softball. I know it would make things appear to be far more fair in intercollegiate sports if having a football program that power conferences would like to add wasn't part of the equation. It is part of the equation however and not because someone arbitrarily decided to claim football is far more valuable than all other sports combined. It has actually proven it historically. [/QUOTE]