http://hechingerreport.org/college-students-begin-cry-foul-paying-sports/
Even after broadcast rights, ticket sales, sponsorships, sports camp, and investment income is taken into account, colleges have to subsidize a median 27.5 percent of athletic spending, much of it from student fees,
“The fact is, all the data shows that many of the purported academic benefits of sports — recruitment, prestige — have all proven to not be true. They don’t exist,”
Even after broadcast rights, ticket sales, sponsorships, sports camp, and investment income is taken into account, colleges have to subsidize a median 27.5 percent of athletic spending, much of it from student fees,
“The fact is, all the data shows that many of the purported academic benefits of sports — recruitment, prestige — have all proven to not be true. They don’t exist,”
