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Re:Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and eve... by dec0dedab0de on Friday June 20, 2014 @05:26PM (#7922992)
I thought sports were mainly profit centers.
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Re:Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and eve... by cheepin on Friday June 20, 2014 @05:35PM (#7923031)
Not exactly true:

http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/Myth-College-Sports-Ar...

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Re:Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and eve... by bilbo0s on Friday June 20, 2014 @06:48PM (#7923337)
Only for the major unis.

For everyone else... I'm pretty sure sports COSTS money.

That said... keeping a few young ladies running track can't possibly be the cause of the imbalance people are talking about. I'm pretty sure the money is sucked up by administrative and non instructional staff. But without the spreadsheets it is difficult to say anything with certainty.

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Re:Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and eve... by tomsthumb on Friday June 20, 2014 @05:58PM (#7923122)
Only for certain, usually large, schools
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Re:Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and eve... by InclinedPlane on Saturday June 21, 2014 @12:38AM (#7924215)
Not usually. Most colleges don't have popular enough teams to turn a profit. And at the ones that do most of the profit ends up being spent on the sports teams (popular teams need big, modern, expensive stadiums). Almost no money flows from sports to education. At best there's an argument that sports helps drive enrollment and helps drive alumni donations. Though even then because of the cost of most sports programs it's questionable whether or not they break even on average.
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