Quote Originally Posted by MplsBison View Post
Not an invalid point, but I'm guessing NDSU's booster club donates maybe $2million a year out of an athletic budget that is approaching $20million.

I would love to be shown wrong, but I'm guessing NDSU's athletic department gets 50% to 75% of the money it uses to pay the bills from student fees, with the rest coming from donations (like those from TeamMakers), sales (tickets, concessions, direct merchandise) and royalties for third party merchandise.
I think the number was $2.8 million this year.

NDSU's total subsidy(school funds + student fees) is 43.16%. Only 6.32% of that is student fees.

Those numbers are from 2012 btw. The Booster club raised $2.6 million that year.