Getting the Priorities Right
More than $800 million in student fees and university subsidies are propping up athletic programs at the nation’s top sports colleges…[while] faculty salaries have dipped, state-funded financial aid is drying up and students are bracing for tuition and fee increases.
Full report on increases in subsidies for college athletics.
These are definitely not the right priorities.
What we have here is semi-pro sports. Everbody is making money except the players.
Disgusting. And you had a post some time back saying that athletic revenues (from their semi-pro sports programs) are tax exempt. That makes it worse.
You’re right, Ken. These universities are running businesses — tax exempt businesses.