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Ben Ferguson: “In most schools, they make money off football. If it's…”

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Which by the way, to be clear, is the overwhelming a majority of college sports. Just so people understand that the economics of this, In most schools, they make money off football. If it's division one, it's, they make money off basketball. And then the scale is just nose diving after that. And there's so many sports that don't make money. And that's why Arkansas this year, they decided to get rid of the tennis team. (12:39–12:46)

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Asserts that Division I schools primarily generate revenue from football and basketball.

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