(04-10-2018 10:27 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(04-09-2018 09:47 PM)McKinney Wrote:  What about the subsidies needed for the service academies?

The academies have gone to great lengths to keep that information private, even getting Congress to pass legislation allowing them to do so. There was a good article about that in USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/20...820114001/

Essentially, the academies got laws passed that allow them to reveal only as much information about athletic department finances as they want to reveal, much less than private universities with NCAA athletics have to reveal.

IMO, the service academies are special, and don't need to justify their activities in the same way that state universities do. If Congress and the military command think that spending federal tax money on athletics is a good thing for cadet morale, that's fine with me. They are the ones who are going to have their arses on the line. In the context of the $3 Trillion federal budget, it's nothing.

Now, a student at ECU or USF having to pay $200 a year to fund another student's (athlete's) books and tuition, on top of their own? That's significant and unconscionable.