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Old 05-01-2010, 10:40 PM   #433
JonInMiddleGA
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Originally Posted by CU Tiger View Post
Quick numbers...
Tennessee has 7 home games a year, 100,000 per game, 50 per ticket.
thats $35MM annually before you take tv/radio/ad revenue into account.

And the benefit extends well beyond the money that the Athletic Foundation puts back into the school in direct cash. Without them, the promotion of the school itself suffers, the interest in the school itself suffers, & with that the willingness to donate to the university as a whole declines.

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(and admitedly this may be a horrible example as I have no knowledge of UT's med program) school i doubt gets these kind of donations

It's actually quite good.
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