a lot of that revenue is due to sponsorships, lack of parity due to some political reasons, and the relationship between the MLB-college sports compared to other sports and their professional and amateur components. But seriously how many Alabama women's basketball or Alabama hockey (yes we have a hockey team) games have you seen on tv compared to baseball? For an Alabama fan baseball probably ranks 5th on their support behind gymnastics and softball, but again ask a MSU, Vandy, South Carolina, and LSU fan where baseball ranks and they are probably far higher on baseball than an Alabama or Auburn fan.
The big issue with college baseball is that only a handful of teams have a realistic shot at making it to an 8 team tournament, and the rest are just hoping for a #4 seed in 1 regional in a 64 team tournament. Alabama fans really are just hoping to make it to Hoover every year in the hardest conference in baseball. So we are probably having a half full stadium on a good day. That is the fate of 90% of the programs in NCAA baseball before the 1st pitch is thrown in the season. But for that other 10% (MSU, Vandy, LSU, Florida, Arkansas, UCLA, Oregon St, Miami, and Texas) they do pretty well.
Point is yes its not an overall moneymaker, but it is well supported depending on who you are talking about.
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