(05-18-2020 06:15 AM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  

(05-17-2020 07:34 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  

(05-17-2020 02:38 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-17-2020 02:19 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(05-17-2020 02:04 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  I mean, Akron is paying a $4m annual note on a 30,000 seat football stadium and generate about $1m a year in football ticket sales. That's ridonculous management.

It's one of those ironies or paradoxes.

Q: If you were the AD or president of Akron, what would you put most of your time and attention into?
Correct Answer: Your Resume.

And the incremental costs of athletes cannot be assumed to be zero. There is a huge tutoring/mentoring component. I know people involved with that at a major school. There are mandatory study halls. There are tutors for each subject. There are note takers. There are attendance takers. There are general tutors for things like time management. There are coordinators who interface with the coaches. Its a lot. There is the training table. In some universities, they are a large component of certain academic programs. Those academic programs might not exist if they weren't doing football.

Bullet,

That partly explains why the category of expenses "not by team or gender" is double or more at schools with football than those without.

There are athletic programs that force the need and those that don’t. Maybe the bigger or more demanding question is, why have this replication or specialized version of learning if only athletic or specific athletic programs have priority or sole access to it?

Either the student athletes don’t meet the entry and/or academic requirements to be at some schools, or the schools let athletics take too much from the student experience.

Many don't. And its not just football and basketball players (although some sports do have good students). And the time demands from the sport are pretty heavy during their season.