You are a buffoon.
Allow me to quote you: "In fact, the athletic department's 2nd or 3rd largest annual expense on its balance sheet behind salaries for coaches and administration and possibly facilities is for paying the University the tution/fees/room & board for the scholarship athletes."
Right there, you lose all credibility. There is no such thing as an "annual expense" on a "balance sheet". You aren't even bright enough to keep your financial statements straight.
Nearly all of Miami's athletic scholarships are already endowed. Prior to the Nevin Shapiro scandal, it was called the "Living Scholars Program". As an example, I used to be roommates at UM with a guy who is in the UM Sports Hall of Fame. Each year, he was one of the (non-football) athletes who would go down on the football field during halftime of a game to be recognized, so that the donor behind his scholarship could have his name read out loud and get credit for giving the money that endowed a scholarship. Those named and endowed scholarships involved multi-million dollar gifts. The money is then invested and the EARNINGS pay for the tuition/room & board/books. Therefore, if you look at the INCOME STATEMENT (or Profit & Loss Statement) and NOT the Balance Sheet, you would see that there is both income from investments in the Student Athlete Scholarship Fund (as it is now known), and then an annual allocation/recognition of the scholarship expense that is incurred each year (and remitted to the University of Miami proper).
Therefore, the Athletic Scholarships are not funded from the ACC revenue share or the game-day tickets, but from donations that have been made over the past decades which are invested and generate revenue of their own. And you clearly have no idea of the difference between Balance Sheets and Income Statements and Statements of Cash Flow, so just stop acting like you have any insight here. So, yeah, all of your false claims about how the Athletic Department's "second or third largest expense on its balance sheet" is tuition is just wrong. And "facilities" is a CAPITAL EXPENDITURE item, NOT an annual recurring budget item on the P&L.
As for other revenue that comes from the University proper, and NOT the Athletic Department, there are numerous sources. And, yeah, a clueless buffoon like yourself is not going to be able to figure it out by "googling". One source of money that UM pays into the Athletic Department is from the Student Athletic Fee. As an undergrad, grad, and law student, I paid the fee every year that I was enrolled at UM. Now, you can try to pooh-pooh that money, but it is money that is charged to each student by the Bursar (and fortunately for me, was covered in my financial aid), and that gets paid over from the general UM operating account into the Athletic Department budget. Furthermore, there is also a revenue stream from the licensing of the various logos (split-U, Sebastian) which were developed by the Athletic Department.
