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Originally Posted by JPhillips
The vast majority of schools already need to pull from fees and tuition to makes ends meet for the athletics program. I'd like to see the NCAA make things simple and say the athletics program can pay whoever they want, but they must balance the books without money from the institution. I'm very much opposed to a system where even more money at public schools is funneled to athletics programs.
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The average program requires more than $10 million per year from student fees and the government. Very, very few sports programs make money (less than 100 men's college basketball teams, about 25-30 football teams, and there are no examples in any other sport).
Recently, the University of Akron discussed eliminating college sports, or just eliminating football. The conclusion was that the cost of leaving the MAC (they have their handcuffs, even though the television money is tiny compared to the power conferences) was so high that it would temporarily make the problem worse. They had a very complete and interesting report that's worth a read if you want to look for it.