[prostoalex]

> football program usually brings in a boatload of money

Let's ask some nice people at NCAA to quantify those boatloads.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ncaa-revenue-expense-report-2...

"Of the 120 athletic departments in Division I-A (sorry, the Football Bowl Subdivision) just 22 were self-sufficient last year. That's actually actually an improvement from 2009, when only 14 schools turned a "profit.""

[muninn_]

And as your link says 58% of football programs are self-sufficient. Your link is also referring to sports programs as a whole. So yeah cut out all the women's sports and even more will be self-sustaining (not that I'm advocating that). And, it appears that more programs are making more money as time goes on.

So sure boatload could be a mischaracterization, but majority certainly isn't.