If you are paying your athletic director $3.5 million because you have the money and you [report] that you have a $100,000 loss, you’re making money!” Kessler bellowed.
He cited the salary of Alabama’s strength coach, David Ballou, who earns $950,000.
“If [he] only made $500,000 and those athletes, largely Black athletes on the football team, got some of that money, no one is going to think that is a bad thing — except the people who are trying to hold up and profit from the system,” he said.
YES!!!!!!!!
Bingo. Exactly what I've been saying. The reason these schools (Pitt included) report losses are due to exorbitant salaries. The fans pay the players instead of the schools so the schools can afford to pay their coaches and administrators fortunes.