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I mean, a few hundred for a score board seems right. Even a few thousand for a piece of infrastructure that can be used 20+ years for several different sports is not so unreasonable. Even rural middle schools will sometimes spend that much on scoreboards.

In University I participated in a club sport "funded" exclusively through the student government -- really more of a tax rebate than anything else since only 60% of what the climbing "team" paid in student fees we got back to buy ropes, biners, rent a van for outings. That sort of stuff.

College sports do serve a real community-building purpose. Just... a few hundred or maybe low thousands total per sport instead of a few tens of millions for the main sport.