Did teams used to make money instead of lose money? If so, in what decade did they begin to lose money? Did Ole Miss make a profit on football in 1955? Ga Tech make money or lose money in 1961?
I keep reading that most teams lose money on Bowl games. In 1961 there were only eight, the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Orange, Liberty, Sun, Blue Bonnet and Gator. Did the headlines read “most bowl teams lost money" in their bowl game?
If Alabama rode a train to California and back, did they make lose money in the Rose Bowl in the 1930’s? Has the cost of hotels and travel gone up so much that it causes teams to lose money?
There was hardly any TV money then. Is TV money the reason only a minority of teams break even now? Is it coaches salaries that is the problem? Is it all the video and training facilities they have now?
Where would I go on the net to find this data?
If we could figure out when we started losing money then we might figure out what to start cutting on.
I keep reading that most teams lose money on Bowl games. In 1961 there were only eight, the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Orange, Liberty, Sun, Blue Bonnet and Gator. Did the headlines read “most bowl teams lost money" in their bowl game?
If Alabama rode a train to California and back, did they make lose money in the Rose Bowl in the 1930’s? Has the cost of hotels and travel gone up so much that it causes teams to lose money?
There was hardly any TV money then. Is TV money the reason only a minority of teams break even now? Is it coaches salaries that is the problem? Is it all the video and training facilities they have now?
Where would I go on the net to find this data?
If we could figure out when we started losing money then we might figure out what to start cutting on.
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