Can someone explain the Penn State Football thingy

[Smittie61984]

Gotcha, makes more sense now.

Originally Posted by EpyonXero

Actually, the Penn State football program brings in significantly more money than it costs and supports other programs that dont make money.

Why does the football program need to share its profits? If the other programs suck then don't have them. I hate that shit at my school. Our chemistry school has endless patents that make tons of money but because we belong to the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences the money goes to the sociologists or other bullshit degrees. We have a lab with wooden fume hoods. The LAS building that houses philosophy, English, and gender studies has a stair case with marble rails and flooring.

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Originally Posted by Smittie61984

Gotcha, makes more sense now.



Why does the football program need to share its profits? If the other programs suck then don't have them. I hate that shit at my school. Our chemistry school has endless patents that make tons of money but because we belong to the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences the money goes to the sociologists or other bullshit degrees. We have a lab with wooden fume hoods. The LAS building that houses philosophy, English, and gender studies has a stair case with marble rails and flooring.

One of the "bigger" impacts from a historical perspective is those wins (111 of them) were also vacated from Paterno's W/L record. That bumped him from the most wins of any Division I head coach in history to #3 on the list.

Part of why football profits are spent elsewhere is due to regulations. One example is the Federal law Title IX. Part of what it does is require some kind of balance between men's and women's sports programs. Women's college sports tend to lose money.