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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 5234784, member: 1329"] There's a lot of fuzzy accounting on both sides of the revenue/expense equation, so it's hard to tell how non-revenue generating most basketball teams are for the schools. Fundraising/donations, charging the price of the scholarship as an expense, marketing expense of the team for the university, student fees, etc. But all schools get NCAA money for fielding a basketball team from March Madness in the form of tournament credits, through conferences. At least around 200k a year for everybody that's not an independent depending on conference size and split. Plus ticket receipts and gates, buy game guarantees, merch, potential concessions, conference media, etc. Picking a random smaller public school with visible financials, it cost UNC Asheville somewhere between a million and a million and a half to run the team. And it seems they make at least a million between the categories I mentioned above. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www3.unca.edu/facultysenate/2022-23/Athletics%20presentation/Athletics%20Budget%20FY23.pdf[/URL] If they're employees, you can get rid of scholarship, housing, and their related expenses, pay them some salary that offsets a lot of the expenses you were already absorbing, so the net financial impact isn't even that much. [/QUOTE]