It’s not static. And more importantly it’s not the sole source of revenue, competitive teams get better TV ratings which spawns better TV contracts. Also there’s memorabilia, living in a town with a team in the Sweet 16 I am once again being reminded just how much more memorabilia money a little success can bring. There isn’t a store in Tucson that can find an excuse to sell UA t-shirts that isn’t selling them right now, and if they win two more and make the Final Four it’ll be even more so. And the ones in stores are licensed and the U gets money for them, money they don’t get on years the team isn’t this successful. The revenues fluctuate a lot depending on the level of success. Football teams get millions just for going to bowl games, being in the half of Div 1 that doesn’t get a bowl bid mean losing those millions.
Sorry but the current crop has a lot to do with the revenues produced. The only outlying part of Manziel is that he had the ability to fight back. Only you and the NCAA got trapped by him. Mike Adams, Dan Herron, DeVier Posey, Solomon Thomas, and Terrelle Pryor (and Ohio State) got a dramatically higher punishment for a much lower “crime”.
you are totally ignorant of this subject matter, how attendance figures run, and how TV contracts run. Therefore, I am done with you…..