I am not blaming Title IX for the rising costs of tuition at all. But I am saying that if you just cut all sports that can't support themselves, you could save students some actual money.
I am not blaming Title IX for the rising costs of tuition at all. But I am saying that if you just cut all sports that can't support themselves, you could save students some actual money.
Okay, sorry for misunderstanding.
I'm saying you're 100% wrong that cutting non revenue sports would actually save students money.
Those sports are generally paid out of athletic dept donations. Now I suppose it's possible that if you cut out all the non-revenue sports the athletic dept donations would be just as high and you could transfer the dollars to either a) the general student body or b) the revenue sports athletes, but both scenarios seem unlikely. College sports is a charade, but a lot of it's interest depends on that charade. However fair or unfair that may be.
I will say I tend to think an "Olympic model" where individual athletes are able to receive money from sources outside the university but were not paid directly by the university could be feasible.
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This article gets to the heart and true challenge of the issue, the fans.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...em-loving-ncaa
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Here is the Daily Show's take on the NCAA.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/th...tly-fair-rules
Variatio delectat - Cicero
It's been 5-6 years since I took it, but during college I took a class that got into sports and some of the economics. In that class we read an article that said Ohio State and Univ of Texas were the only two completely self supported Div 1 college athletic departments. It's been a few years but I think any college athletic departments that support themselves completely through revenue sports/donations are in the strong minority.
FBS players do get paid. Dee Miller came down here to speak to the Ohio State alumni club this week. He said that the football players in his era (late 90s) received a monthly stipend of $600/month and that the current stipend is $1,300/month. It ain't NFL money. But it's enough to put groceries on the table and a fill the gas tank a few times.
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I'm pretty certain he's referring to the room and board allowance for players living off campus. Room and board is part of the scholarship, but if they're not in university housing they get a check to cover their expenses.
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http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sport...ase/54955804/1
According to this data, only the massive football schools have financially autonomous athletic departments. In 2011, my beloved Ohio University used $17 million from student fees to pay for athletics. That is a pretty hefty amount of money.
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I'd heard the same statistic (though, I'd heard it was OSU, Texas and Alabama) a few years back.
I'd bet that the explosion in television rights over the last few years has changed the calculus a little bit. The most recent data I can find is from 2008, and it looks like a lot of people roughly breaking even and a ton more losing money: http://espn.go.com/ncaa/revenue
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Certainly depends where you go to school. I had a friend going to school at Northwestern. Had 5 roommates. Rent was $5000 a month total. I have a friend who rents out a house in Clifton (U of Cincinnati). $2800 a month with 4 bedrooms and it isn't exactly "nice" or in a "nice area" (not that there are exactly nice areas in Clifton).
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