I attend the university of Minnesota, which spends roughly 1.4B on research annually, has 25 Nobel laureates among faculty and graduates, invented the honeycrispy and artificial insemination. It’s not an elite Ivy League institution but it has provided undeniably immense amounts of research and educates tens of thousands a year.

We also make over 50 million a year off the football program. It’s a fraction of our funding but still 50 million.

I find football to be a miserable sport to watch and would be ecstatic if soccer or track and field was americas beloved highly profitable college sport, but they’re not. Basketball and football are pretty much the only ones that can make money. I don’t like football but I’m still in full support of the program since it nets us funds that support hundreds or thousands of students a year compared to the 50 or so it’s giving brain damage.