Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026

[BearLover]

https://x.com/mikerodak/status/2021599214493405336?s=20

Relevant to discussions about revenue sharing. It has become a popular talking point that schools without major football/basketball will be able to commit a higher portion of revenue to hockey. That never really made any sense, because profits are negative outside of football and basketball.

Does "profits are negative outside of football and basketball" apply to schools where hockey is the biggest sport?

NoDak in particular, but also Denver, Colorado College, pretty much all the Minnesota schools except probably U of M, and some of the Hockey East schools maybe.

NoDak I'd guess is the only school in the country (1) without big-time football/basketball and (2) with a hockey program materially in the black. Highly doubt CC or the non-flagship Minnesota schools profit. Denver maybe breaks even.

It's true that without football, certain schools won't have as much revenue, so at the end of the day, football or no football, a school like Providence or Denver will have the same "hockey budget" as, say, Michigan. However, without the runaway costs of football, and need to feed that beast, it may make giving hockey teams a certain budget more palatable. I suspect Denver's "hockey budget" will be about $1 million in rev share at the end of the day. I may know more soon on that.

That would be a massive number for an athletic department that loses money on ~every sport and has to try to compete in basketball.

I searched for "how much does denver university spend on hockey", and I discovered this:

https://nil-ncaa.com/

I have no idea how good a source this is, but if you scroll about 3/4 of the way down, it does compare revenue sharing by sport. Above that, shows the average net operating loss for FBS schools.

There's also an interesting quote from Troy Aikman. Basically, he wrote a check for a specific kid at UCLA, and the kid left after a year. Aikman said he's done with NIL.

Two things:
It is only power 5 schools included in the "estimates"
These numbers can vary greatly year to year, as you alluded to from the Aikman quote

For example, if Penn State is really paying McKenna 700K (as is rumored), that would itself massively affect the numbers but will change from season to season.

[Trotsky]

It's not hard to find stories about how a lot of NIL is off the books.

Even when the payoffs are legal, the factory schools still love to lie and cheat.  They just like it.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Weder]

From that link:

Code Select Expand

Athletic Department Annual Expenses

              FY 2024       FY 2023        FY 2022        2-year % Increase                
Yale          77,124,108    72,430,360     66,265,805     16%
Penn          56,137,691    46,277,380     44,747,142     25%
Princeton     47,797,015    44,300,839     37,118,165     29%
Harvard       43,636,552    39,568,660     32,850,494     33%
Brown         42,236,049    36,265,052     29,892,746     41%
Cornell       40,756,322    36,227,301     36,812,888     11%
Dartmouth     40,640,949    38,642,041     35,022,406     16%
Columbia      40,185,323    38,335,736     32,521,946     24%

The hell is Yale spending so much on?

This led me down a rabbit hole, and Yale managed to spend nearly $25,000 on a handful of sports in 1886. (Nearly $900,000 in 2025 money, according to one calculator.)