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No, especially not if it is at the expense of actual academics. It's a problem at the high school level, too, where you see schools building huge stadiums for football, while other programs are cut to the bone, and class sizes increased to save money.
No public money should be going for this. Period, none... no state, no local, nothing... a simple PE program, rest is public drive or privately funded.
If private money wants to reward people with physical skills to pay for the academic ones, this is their own dime.
Free enterprise all the way, free means those who want to pay do, the rest can choose not to.
I'm fine with collegiate sports being limited to those that support themselves; as a matter of fact, that is how it should be.
But on the same subject, you shouldn't force a school to use money from one sport to pay for another.
So, if you have a football program bringing money, the school shouldn't be forced to use any of it to pay for a women's softball program.
You sexist pig! Here at the U of M (Minnesota) we built a 4.6 million dollar boat house for our female rowing team. We don't have a single prep, female rowing team in the state of Minnesota though. So we diverted millions to build a boat house, for a sport we fund, but don't participate in, to give scholarship money to female athletes in the name of equality. Is it any wonder tuition has to subsidize the atheltic departments with nonsense like this? Yeah Title IX!
It's a pretty complicated situation and it's certainly not just the money at stake to run sports programs but also the schools reputation given all the extra shenanigans that most top programs have going on.
To be blunt - the 2 premier sports programs in Michigan are the schools putting next to nothing of tuition money into varsity sports.
It is the schools that "want" to be a "top program" that are dumping $1,000+ per year of each kids tuition into funding varsity sports.
Let the sports boosters pay for the sports. Let the players (and their parents) fork over some money, too.
Scholarships for athletes? Let the boosters endow them, as well.
In fact from 2005 to 2009 only 8 public colleges did not have athletic departments that cost their students tuition money: Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Penn State.
In 2013 the University of Cincinnati dumped $6 Million of tuition money into varsity sports that loses money and then dumped another $80 million in 2015 to upgrade their sports facilities - that $80 million was borrowed with interest.
Northern Kentucky's sports program brings in $1.5 Million, but spends $10 Million. The $8.5 Million difference is picked up by taxpayers and student tuition...yet Northern Kentucky didn't have the money to expand growing medical programs.
Inflation-adjusted athletic spending also increased, by 24.8 percent, at public four-year colleges in all divisions in those years, while spending on instruction and academic support remained nearly flat, and public service and research expenditures declined, the report said. Their overall spending per student grew 1.6 percent.
Eastern Michigan spends $27,000,000.00 a year of tuition money on a fledgling sports program - or about $1,200+ of tuition per student per year. Now Eastern Michigan wants to take another $35,000,000.00 to upgrade their football stadium that is a net financial loser for the university.
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Here at the U of M (Minnesota) we built a 4.6 million dollar boat house for our female rowing team. We don't have a single prep, female rowing team in the state of Minnesota though. So we diverted millions to build a boat house, for a sport we fund, but don't participate in, to give scholarship money to female athletes in the name of equality. Is it any wonder tuition has to subsidize the atheltic departments with nonsense like this? Yeah Title IX!
