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The recent TV contract for NCAA basketball is $10.8 Billion over 14 years. http://chronicle.com/article/NCAA-Signs-108-Billion-Deal/65219/ http://chronicle.com
by robg 17y ago
The recent TV contract for NCAA basketball is $10.8 Billion over 14 years.
http://chronicle.com/article/NCAA-Signs-108-Billion-Deal/65219/ http://chronicle.com/article/NCAA-Signs-108-Billion-Deal/652...
The Rose Bowl (one college football game) alone is $300 Million over eight years.
Basically basketball and football subsidize the other sports. Shift that funding into academics and you lose the other sports.
- RK 17y agoDepends on the school. I went to one of the smallest schools with a D1 football team and it is my understanding that the football team there only survives due to funds alloted by the conference, which are collected as dues from the other universities.