The dollar value of Michigan football

All of the money from Football goes to the Athletic Department, or at least almost all of it. You gotta understand the AD is financially and (practically) administratively free of the University, they have their own budget separate from the University. There are only three real rules of understanding between the University and the football program/athletic department: 1. The players go to class and get their degree 2. The team has to be able to win. 3. They have to follow the NCAA guidelines. Other than those three things the AD and the University administration really don't mingle. Our athletic department is extremely exceptional in this case, most schools don't have this, they're administration dictates a lot of the Athletic Department policy. Example MSU; they're President has to make a lot of decisions regarding the athletic department, ours hardly has to ask Mary Sue for anything. I will say this however, every once in a while there's a project, most recently the basketball practice facility, where the AD doesn't have space in the budget for it from revenue and donations. In that case, they'll ask the regents for money. Those cases, however are few and far between.