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Not even Connecticut? They pack the arena for women's hoops.

 

That settles it. You have become a full fledged Texan. You might as well change your username to Texas Taco Belle.

 

@uscvball LSU baseball makes a few $ too.

 

If you are going the athlete route, then make it tennis. That's where the money and endorsements are. Of the top 10 highest paid female athletes, there is only one golfer and she's Tawainese.

 

There are certainly individual cases where a sport makes a school money but for the most part, baseball is not a money-making sport in Div1.

 

I love Louisiana, but I love Texas, too. It took me a looooonnnnnnggggg time to come to that conclusion, though.

 

That's because Serena Williams makes more money than all the other women's players put together. Except for Maria Sharpova who makes a lot more than Serena in endorsement money.

 

Looooooooggggg as in Longhorns?

 

"The University of Connecticut’s run at a third consecutive women’s championship comes with the trappings of a world-class sports event, including a national television audience and rowdy fans in blue wigs and face paint.

The Huskies dominate on the court, and can sell out arenas. What they lose is money. The program spent $723,900 more than it earned in fiscal 2010.

Across the U.S., the most popular women’s college sport is in the red. Women’s basketball at the 53 public schools in the six largest conferences recorded operating losses last fiscal year of $109.7 million, while the men’s teams had operating profits of $240 million, according to their financial records.


Women’s basketball needs to figure out how to at least pay its own way as states grapple with budget deficits and some university systems eliminate intercollegiate sports to save money, said Bernadette McGlade, an Atlantic 10 Conference commissioner and a former coach and player.

“There is intrinsic value in being able to carry your own weight,” McGlade said. “For the amount of resources going into intercollegiate women’s basketball, there’s going to be a time where there has to be a rational decision of, is it worth it?”

Each of the 53 teams lost money in the fiscal year ended 2010, and the average operating deficit was $2.07 million on average operating revenue of $804,577, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. Private schools in the six conferences -- Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and Southeastern -- aren’t required to make such records public."

 

For me---God no. On the other hand, both of my daughters favor the Longhorns (better than the Aggies or the Red Raiders, though.)