Great comment, exactly correct, most colleges demonstrably lose money on sports, even on football, and often more on football than the other much cheaper sports, and that is seen in spite of the typical dishonest accounting involved.
Colleges may need to operate their own version of some types of sports for the sake of students who need to be active and competitive, but they need to be frugal and do not need to run farm teams for professional sports.
Agree!
However, they’re running farm teams for professional sports now! What I want is big time pro sports to pay for it! And I will prefer they run it too! (There’s enough fraud & corruption at colleges\universities now!) Preferably set up a farm\minor league system to feed pro sports. The colleges\universities can license the name for a revenue stream.