indy star: $1 billion pocketed by athletic programs last year

[Herbert Anchovy]

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060330/SPORTS/603300460/1004/SPORTS

"We can accredit the football team (in NCAA Division I-A), but not the master's program in public administration," [Ball State political science professor John Rouse] said. "It would take $150,000 for two more professors. It takes five. We have three. I'm a fan, but when it begins to infringe on my own teaching function in my own department, I start to have reservations."

Athletic departments at taxpayer-funded universities nationwide receive more than $1 billion in student fees and general school funds and services, according to an Indianapolis Star analysis of the 2004-05 athletic budgets of 164 of the nation's 215 biggest public schools. Without such outside funding, fewer than 10 percent of athletic departments would have been able to support themselves with ticket sales, television contracts and other revenue-generating sports sources. Most would have lost more than $5 million.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I blame Title IX.

 

[slappy4428]

I blame Title IX.

Why do you hate America?