[mason]

Football can't pay for football. Football has more coaches, more equipment, most expensive equipment, more players, more expensive facility upkeep than any other sport. It also has less games than any other sport.

You can choose to look at it how you wish but here are the facts for all schools in the Boone County School System.

The school board, school what ever you want to call it gives ZERO money for the athletic departments except for coaches salaries and field upkeep. Everything and I mean everything is paid for by football they split their gate 50/50 with the athletic department. The 50% they keep has to cover everything including transportation costs for games, weights, and equipment. So the football team is forced to do some outside fundraisers to help with the costs.

Basketball does the 50/50 split but they lose money or barely break even for each one of their home games, and they do not use buses for away games because they would have to pay for it themselves.

This ZERO for athletics is for all grades, again except for coaches salaries. Boone County schools do not have middle school football.

But there is NO WAY I would know how the football athletic budgets work in Boone County.