Letters to the Editor
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response to the response
Hey Third Man,
Well you clearly have alot more first hand knowledge than I do (i.e none whatsoever). I went to school in Canada at a school without athletic scholarships and where athletics take a VERY back seat to academics (the end result? Our football team hasn't won this century, but we did loose Mike Keenan onto the hockey coaching landscape...so at least we have that going for us :). What struck me about your response is that even if the money isn't as much as you say, it's still TONS more than my school gets (a school of 80,000 mind you) from athletics. Maybe football isn't allowing the executive committee roll around on a bed of crisp hundred dollar bills, but it certainly pays a huge percentage of the general operating budget.
Maybe it's not as much money made as people would suspect, but that doesn't change the fact that there's still alot of money being made on the backs of students that are paid nothing, and often (not always) left by the wayside once their utility to the school is over.
cheers