Mega Bucks is an article about how colleges get funding for their sports teams. For example, OSU has the largest athletic budget is the country. However the sports bring in their own money. For example the football team brings in about $36 million in profits. While their academics may not have the most funding they believe what they do is fair. Athletic department funds them self’s, no money is taken away from academics for the athletic department. Some teams however are cutting sports because they cannot afford them. Rutgers dismissed 6 sports due to “budget cuts” however they were able to give the assistant football coach a raise. This is a school whose athletics don’t run off their own funding.
OSU brings in so much money from concessions, game tickets, endorsements, and from hotels and restaurants that people eat at while in town to see the game. UF’s football team brought in $27 million this year alone. Most schools use the money they raise with the sports on the sports. New equipment, better fields, new stadiums, and even break rooms including flat screen TVs. OSU has a $75,000 hockey treadmill for their men and women’s ice hokey team to practice on. It resembles real ice, goes up to 16 miles per hour and it even simulates shard turns. There are some pro hockey teams that don’t have this machine due to its size and cost! However some money earned is used to better the overall school, from scholarships for the athletes to re-doing the school’s library.
It is important to have such a strong football team because they help pay for the other sports that don’t have such a high income. All sports are important because no one should ever be told they can’t play the game they love because a school doesn’t have money. A strong football team helps pay for these types of sports. In my opinion it definitely is not right for a school to cancel sports because they don’t have enough money but yet they can give raises to the couches of the other more popular sports. Overall thought, I believe all sports are important to every school.
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