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Re:CA Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes to Profi... by mburns on Monday September 30, 2019 @03:34PM (#21118898)
> The Crimson Tide's football program reported $103.9 million in revenue for 2016 and posted a $47 million profit. That's up 3.6% from last year.

According to a CNN Money article.

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Re:CA Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes to Profi... by TylerE on Monday September 30, 2019 @03:43PM (#21118991)
The least valuable NFL team had profits of $126M on revenue of over $400m.

So I suspect the answer is a strong "no", but they're at least in the same zipcode if not the same ballpark.

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Re:CA Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes to Profi... by adventured on Monday September 30, 2019 @03:49PM (#21119058)
The least valuable NFL team - the Bills - had $86m in operating income.[1] Net profit would be lower.

The Cleveland Browns only had $32m in operating income, coming in as the 5th least valuable team. The Oakland Raiders were the 12th most valuable, with $28m in operating income (of course their value is high due to other factors).

Seems plausible that Alabama's program is worth over a billion dollars solidly. The value boost of being in the NFL is obviously what really separates the situations, regardless of comparable incomes.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/teams/buffalo-bills/?list=nfl-valuati...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2019/09/04/the-nfls...

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Re:CA Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes to Profi... by rwmurrayVT on Monday September 30, 2019 @03:55PM (#21119111)
Does that include sales of things like generic UofA apparel and stickers? There's a great deal of UofA 'stuff' that isn't labeled football.
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