College sports: Bigger isn't better

USA TODAY ^ | 8/14/2003 | Steve Wieberg

[Willie Green]

Colleges see no return

[Willie Green]

Your taxes are being used to subsidize college sports.

[gunnedah]

It is time to stop this mess.

[Voltage]

What would be wrong with just intramural sports. Any decent school should be able to field multiple teams and more people could particpate.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

College atheletes should stop participating in sports until the NCAA stop penalizing them for B.S. stuff such as getting a free meal at the coach's house or getting a discount on a jersey.

[Drango]

If all NCAA schools had to reduce scholarships and coaches, it would still be a level playing field and everbody would save money. Division one schools allow 85 football scholarships! 85!

Reduce the scholarships for ALL schools and no one would know the difference. Limited the coaches also.

[cryptical]

Of the 117 Division I-A programs, 40% reported an operating profit in 2001. But without state and school subsidies, only 6% made money.

Thank Title IX for this mess. When a school is required to carry low to non-revenue sports to even out the balance for a football program (which often makes $$$) in many cases there is a net loss.