Perhaps you should educate yourself on college football finances.  If anything, college football takes away from other sports.  At CSU there are only 4 male scholarship sports: golf, basketball, track and field and football. No swimming even though Colorado is a big swimming state in HS (and Olympic sports).  CSU loses more on football than men's track and field, golf and all of women's sports combined.  You really are in fantasy land if you think football floats other sports.  The exact opposite is true. The spending and losing on football at CSU just keeps going up and up and up since 2009 - even when faculty were on pay freeze. Revenue comes from academics.  Please look at the link I put up.  Football depends on huge subsidies from academics.  People don't donate much.  Ticket sales do not cover the cost of football or a stadium.  Your football is paid for by education and god forbid if someone points out the ugly truth since football is religion of the minority - not the majority