Thoughts?
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/03/26/us/ap-us-college-athletes-union.html?_r=0
PDad wrote:I find the notion of college athletics making or losing money to be questionable. They have little incentive to make money, so they aim to break even to keep the same amount of funding - use it or lose it.
If CAPA was sincere about their goals, they would be open to all student-athletes instead of just the ones from the revenue sports.
tbjd33 wrote:PDad wrote:I find the notion of college athletics making or losing money to be questionable. They have little incentive to make money, so they aim to break even to keep the same amount of funding - use it or lose it.
JonRiv is spot on... With the exception of Major College football and basketball majority of sports loose $$$ or at best break even. When there is profit in those sports funds generally go back into the pool for other sports. In our case(softball) only a handful of programs don't loose $$$.
Not to long ago I was knee deep in doing my fair share in helping save Cal baseball from the chopping block because of State Budget concerns. Actually saw the baseball budget as well as other sports on the chopping block. Financial loss to the school is real...