How does Duke have 10 million more in football revenue?

I’m a Duke grad school alum, mostly cheer against their sports though btw. Anyway, in the early 90s Duke had a committee to study going Div III for football, sort of a Georgetown model. The decision was obviously to stay Div I and the reasoning was that they had taken too much alum money to bail out. Duke alum look to Stanford as the example of how they should be more competitive in football.

Duke’s endowment is around $9B but sports money probably hinges on basketball. There is a chance they could make a push in football, probably have the money, but the Duke football brand totally sucks. Only two very brief winning periods in the past 60 years. Worse than Wake IMO. Why would a talented player go there? Is a Duke degree worth that much more to most 3 stars than a degree from wherever? If the degree means that much, and you have a 1250ish SAT/3.5+, why not just go Ivy league?

GT football brand far better to say the least. But I’ve always wondered how GT keeps up with so many GT students caring less and less about football. Where will the money come from?

Btw Duke is a thorn in our engineering school side…have been successful recruiting away some of our top young faculty with more money.
 
They have out spent us the past 10+ years. It's not new news and the reason why our competitive gap has shrank. GT fans are cheap and/or small in numbers.
 
Jacketblind said:
GT people are notoriously cheap people...and don't care about sport.
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We do care about sport. We just like to yell “BEAT GEORGIA” while not paying for jackshit, boasting about our slightly better than average salaries and solid 7 wives who happen to be the first girl that decides to get out of Trashville, GA by marrying a nerd they wouldn’t have even looked at in HS and inevitably divorce us in 10-20 years for being absolute ööööing cheap bores.
 
Akinji07 said:
We do care about sport. We just like to yell “BEAT GEORGIA” while not paying for jackshit, boasting about our slightly better than average salaries and solid 7 wives who happen to be the first girl that decides to get out of Trashville, GA by marrying a nerd they wouldn’t have even looked at in HS and inevitably divorce us in 10-20 years for being absolute ööööing cheap bores.
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2nd wind is $$$ in retirement and a younger woman.
 
pianoman said:
I’m a Duke grad school alum, mostly cheer against their sports though btw. Anyway, in the early 90s Duke had a committee to study going Div III for football, sort of a Georgetown model. The decision was obviously to stay Div I and the reasoning was that they had taken too much alum money to bail out. Duke alum look to Stanford as the example of how they should be more competitive in football.

Duke’s endowment is around $9B but sports money probably hinges on basketball. There is a chance they could make a push in football, probably have the money, but the Duke football brand totally sucks. Only two very brief winning periods in the past 60 years. Worse than Wake IMO. Why would a talented player go there? Is a Duke degree worth that much more to most 3 stars than a degree from wherever? If the degree means that much, and you have a 1250ish SAT/3.5+, why not just go Ivy league?

GT football brand far better to say the least. But I’ve always wondered how GT keeps up with so many GT students caring less and less about football. Where will the money come from?

Btw Duke is a thorn in our engineering school side…have been successful recruiting away some of our top young faculty with more money.
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The faculty they can have. But they no longer have the “you don’t want to play antique football in a TO system” and they are not going to out recruit Collins and his staff for good football players.
 
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