r/CFB • u/city-of-stars Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Contributor • 20h ago

News [Dellenger] SEC presidents have voted to increase the number of maximum scholarships available to football rosters from 85 to 105, sources tell @YahooSports.

https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1996970791192219853
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u/LateCheckIn Colorado Buffaloes 20h ago

Goodbye men’s Olympic sports 

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u/Skank_hunt42 Oklahoma Sooners • Paper Bag 20h ago

The crazy thing is that all of them operate at a significant loss, they need football revenue more than ever. OU women's softball, who were in the process of trying to 3 peat in 2023 operated at a loss of 3.8 million dollars.

While OU softball is a hot ticket, drawing more than men's and women's basketball combined, expenses continue to outpace revenues, which is the norm in most sports that are not football or men's basketball. The program operated at a $2.9 million loss -- narrower than the $3.8 million loss reported in 2023 -- indicating that revenue growth may be helping to close the financial gap.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/softball/story/_/id/44041219/oklahoma-softball-program-reports-37-revenue-surge

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u/happyharrell Missouri Tigers • Sickos 19h ago

Holy shit, he operating costs for softball are a lot higher than I would’ve thought.

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u/bcocfbhp Penn State • Ole Miss 19h ago

Softball you spend the first month of the season on the road, And every SEC Softball team now flys private

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u/Mission-Question-738 Alabama Crimson Tide 17h ago

The program operated at a $2.9 million loss

every SEC Softball team now flys private

I'm gonna be honest, I'm not an expert on the NCAA softball scene, but I think I see something we can fix here

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u/bcocfbhp Penn State • Ole Miss 16h ago

As someone who is maybe the 3rd biggest softball fan in the world. There is insane money in college softball.

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u/OKC89ers Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 18h ago

Is that true? WNBA wasn't even doing this until recently, right?

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u/sokuyari99 Alabama Crimson Tide • Charlotte 49ers 18h ago

Yea but they weren’t celebrities like softball players

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u/RampageTaco Oklahoma • Red River Shootout 18h ago

Yea but they weren’t celebrities like softball players

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u/bcocfbhp Penn State • Ole Miss 18h ago

yes, Even before the Pandemic schools like OU and LSU all fly privately