A new audit shows that of the 192 sports programs Colorado\u2019s 11 public universities and colleges run, only 2 make money\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Those 2 are the football and men\u2019s basketball operations at CU-Boulder. Combined, they actually bring in tens of millions of dollars, while most others lose money. In the 2021 to 22 school year, for example, the highly-successful School of Mines football program that won a lot of games and played for a national championship, earned nearly 300 thousand dollars. But, it spent around 2 \u00bd million. Assistant Mines Athletic Director Tim Flynn\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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So where do all those schools get their money? Most programs rely on athletic donors contributing to their schools. Those gifts are how Mines\u2019 new 26-million-dollar football stadium got built. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A new audit shows that of the 192 sports programs Colorado\u2019s 11 public universities and colleges run, only 2 make money\u2026 (Few College Sports Programs Profitable wrap\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 :45) Those 2 are the football and men\u2019s basketball operations at CU-Boulder. Combined, they actually bring in tens of millions of dollars, while most others lose money. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}