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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should the criteria be making money or breaking even? Virtually no drama, orchestra, or other programs in the arts make money for colleges, so should those all be cut as well?  Colleges provide those programs and non-revenue sports because they want to attract a wide variety of students to campus, not because they are potential profit centers (although alums who played college sports almost always contribute more to the school than the average non-athlete alums, and colleges definitely take that into account).

Also, have you seen the stats about the percentage of female CEOs who played sports in college? It’s quite striking how many did. There are strong connections between playing sports at a high level and future earning potential, scoff as you may at all the athletes you feel are inferior to you or your kid. [/quote]

Drama and orchestra professors  aren't getting paid substantially more than college professors. This is from a Washington post article:

" From 2006 to 2016, pay for Kentucky’s track and field coach climbed from $108,000 to $429,000; men’s tennis coach pay jumped from $122,000 to $230,000; and gymnastics coach pay rose from $112,000 to $252,000. Every coach made more than the school’s average full professor’s salary. In a phenomenon playing out across the country, salaries are soaring for coaches of lower-profile college sports largely subsidized by lucrative football and men’s basketball"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/as-ncaa-money-trickles-down-even-tennis-coaches-are-outearning-professors/2017/03/13/d40d448e-043b-11e7-b9fa-ed727b644a0b_story.html

The article goes on to explain Univof Kentucky was going to build a $49 million baseball stadium. For a baseball team that drew 150 fans on opening day.
"The Wildcats baseball team was playing its 2017 home opener against Eastern Kentucky. In the dugout, Wildcats Coach Nick Mingione — who is making $375,000 this year, up from the $235,000 the job paid in 2006 — clapped and shouted encouragement, as did the sparse crowd of about 150 in the stands. (Mingione took over last June for Gary Henderson, who made $577,000 in 2016.)"

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