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If we make college free, like some politicians are proposing, does football revenue even matter anymore?

• dragonwriter 7y ago
  It matters even more: making the service free to students doesn't make the inputs free to the college itself, and many plans for government funding include outcome-based accountability for government subsidies (that's even true for sone proposed reforms that don't make college free.), And no plan is going to let colleges charge whatever they want and get the government to pay he bill. One way to get better outcomes for the same government pay check (and thus avoid being excluded) is to have excess revenues elsewhere to funnel into academics. And, that aside, prestige is going to still matter to college governing bodies, and therefore to the leadership subject to and incentivized by them.
  • jmpman 7y ago
    Won’t the politicians just give even more money to the universities? Paint the chancellor’s office, get a check from the government. Cancel the football team, as it’s no longer politically correct, get even more funding.