Forums >General Running>Question for those of you who ran in college
Why is it sideways?
the football and basketball programs that help fund the other sports.
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Outside of the Michigans and Tennessees of the world, the vast majority of football programs run in the red.
I'm not disagreeing with that point. I'm saying that the revenue generated from football and basketball help fund the other financial sinkholes that are collegiate sports. As an advocate of student-athletes in very low revenue-generating sports, to make an enemy of football and basketball is to bite the hand that feeds you. You seemed to imply that track scholarships should have a ratio consistent with football scholarships and I don't think that makes much sense. But I'm not an expert in the budgeting process of universities so I could benefit from some education.
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Football and basketball are not the hand that feeds track and cross country. That is a twisted view of college athletics, fed to you by ESPN. The hand that feeds track and cross country is the school budget. Most of the schools that have been mentioned in this thread see sports as integrated with the function of building a school community. None of these sports programs exist to make profits, and to justify them them in that way is to pervert the whole notion of what a school is and what it is for.
So, to overly simplify, $$$$ from ESPN = ++++ to school budget = +++ to revenue generating sports = + non-revenue generating sports.
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