Not even close to true, football funds all the other sports at least at CU.  In the last few years, men's basketball has been in the black. Students pay a $28.50 athletic fee per semester but that doesn't come close to funding any sports and that includes a football pass and basketballs pass, I know that facts don't fit in your little diatribe against college sports but there you go.  Athletics is auxiliary funded at CU, not a drop of tuition or general fund money supports athletics.  If athletics didn't exist, that money wouldn't be there.