@SupremeBuffalo
A few posts back you complained about your tuition dollars supporting AJ. None of the athlete scholarships come from your tuition. The AD pays scholarships out of the PAC 12 TV rights deals and ticket sales. Overall, the AD tries to be self supporting despite paying all scholarships at out of state rates back to the school. Football and basketball fund the rest of the department. Some years they've had to get a loan from the school, but usually it's a net gain for CU.
Completely correct, and to expand on this:
As you stated the AD pays all scholarships at out of state rates even though a large number of the athletes, especially in non-revenue sports, come from in Colorado. In addition the athletic department pays the university for the use of university facilities and general operating expenses in excess of actual cost. Even in years that the official number has the AD losing money the university comes out ahead.
None of this takes into account the very clear connection between athletic success and non-athletic donations. It also doesn't account for the impact of athletics, especially football in promoting the university nationally. Even a rough attempt to quantify this impact gives figures that the school could never fund on it's own.