Tag: athletics

22 May 2008

Hoisted from the Comments: Lux on College Athletics

From the comment(s) on College Sports as a Fiscal Sink:
I think it would be great if collegiate athletics could generate enough revenue to make them self-sustainable. Unfortunately, as we have come to find out this is not the case as the operating scenario of collegiate athletics currently stands. I think one should note that there [...]

21 May 2008

College Sports a Fiscal Sink

The Dismal Economics of Big-Time College Sports

Every year the NCAA publishes a financial analysis of intercollegiate sports programs. Every year there is much bad news. The newly released NCAA report contains even more bad news than usual. Unprecedentedly bad news, even.
Is this because 2006 (the year on which the new report focuses) was an unprecedentedly [...]