You either build a successful program or get out of athletics.  BU Bulldogs no longer play ... 

CSU attempting to build a successful program ... 

WHEN a university has a successful program all the other athletics programs thrive.  U of Wisconsin shit down its baseball program a number of years ago.  We no longer box either ... but we have women's hockey basketball etc.

For myself I experienced great growth as a human being hauling backside powered by 8 large men in a crew shell as a coxswain ... it was a great moment in my life taking 3rd place at the Head of the Charles in Boston.  That program fed off the football program's revenues and left over equipment.  We had no scholarships.  We won the national championship in 1989.  The guys on that team were our mentors.

Doesn't sound like you appreciate sports much ... they can have great positive impacts.