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Sally Jenkins in the Washington Post agrees with you. by IAND75

College sports embraced reckless greed. With the coronavirus crisis, the bill has come due.

Sally Jenkins


“ Understand this: These schools don’t have a money problem. They have a shopping addiction. From 2004 to 2018, NCAA revenue exploded from $3 billion to $14 billion thanks largely to media rights, licensing and sponsorship deals. Yet some schools are so financially distressed that a single canceled football season could be catastrophic. Stanford cut 11 sports, and Wisconsin informed donors that it could face a $100 million shortfall. Where did the money go? The answer is, to compulsive spending and gross misallocation. Hundreds of millions disappeared into the pockets of deputy assistant associate athletic directors for administration, conference commissioners for the commission of commissions and Nick Saban’s corporate-welfare army of “football analysts.”

The rest went into buildings that look like a Kardashian’s closet. Clemson’s arcade of a football complex includes miniature golf, bowling, laser tag and a movie theater.

“This is a multibillion-dollar sports entertainment industry embedded in our higher education system,” Nevius says...”