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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brian Renville" data-source="post: 195620" data-attributes="member: 256"><p>I wonder how much of the numbers we are seeing is growing pains? When you look at the top earning programs in the country, most aren't getting taxpayer money(sports we are talking). Then after the few top earners there is a big dropoff as far as supporting themselves. While programs at the North Dakota schools are subsidized as a percentage of budget it's not real high compared to other NCAA schools. Pretty sure some are in the 80+% of their entire budget. Anyway NDSU football is too big for it's britches at this point, lets emphasize "at this point", a losing season can end that real quick. They could probably fill close to double the capacity they have now. If we think Fargo is full now on game weekends now it would burst if that took place. The TV deal is nice but not nearly as big as it could be. The sponsors are great Gate City, Sanford, etc.... But those numbers would be much larger as well. That economic impact alone should, under competent leadership and honest bureaucrats(oxymoron), pay the bills and then some. The main difference though is the non subsidized programs in this country were founded as much on sports as anything else. The longstanding joke is without the football team Texas wouldn't have been able to ever build a library. It's actually kind of true. At the same time it's important to remember that it takes government run anything $5 to accomplish something any of us can do with $1.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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