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Re:College Presidents Making $1M Rise with Tuition and Stude... by avs733 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:39AM (#15906307)
realistically, they are profit centers for the football programs. Little if any of that money makes it back to the school.

For their math to work you have to assume that NONE of the donors who donate to sports would donate to anything else...I find that to be a fairly unlikely assumption.

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Re:College Presidents Making $1M Rise with Tuition and Stude... by adventured on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:57AM (#15906485)
> Little if any of that money makes it back to the school.

That's incorrect. Most major football programs transfer a large percentage of their revenue above operating expenses, back to the university. Texas for example, which is typically one of the top five college football businesses (and nearly a pro level business), transfers about half of its revenue after expenses (ie profit) back to the university.

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Re:College Presidents Making $1M Rise with Tuition and Stude... by maxerickson on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:14AM (#15906667)
The top teams do a whole lot better than smaller schools though. For considering policy the aggregate is more interesting than the schools with the best numbers.

Look at the spending that the schools other than UM and MSU put towards athletics:

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/08/michigan_college...

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Re:College Presidents Making $1M Rise with Tuition and Stude... by azernik on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:53AM (#15906437)
It's not about donors. Div I schools can make hundreds of millions of dollars from media rights.
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