<p>I didnt say ALL schools lost money. I said even schools with high attendance at games may lose money. Yes, I know television is where the money is. DOH! I read a recent article about this fact and was surprised to know that UVa and UNC lost money on sports. Only a handful of top named athletic schools make money on sports and most leagues (perhaps all of them) have revenue sharing from television and bowl games. The real issue I was raising had to do with the disparity on how scholarships and financial aid are handed out. I am the first person to say that nobody has an entitlement to any money, but only that if they hand it out (in whatever form) they should hand it out evenly. I favor some level of racial and economic diversity in college admissions, but increasingly we are seeing the white middle class being squeezed to death with fewer and fewer discretionary dollars available to them. When someone with 10% Hispanic blood can get a full ride with a mediocre SAT score and a white kid with a STELLAR SAT score (1350) can’t get any scholarship money and is left to navigate the treacherous waters of FAFSA its simply wrong. That is racial reverse discrimination, in my books, and in violation of the Bakke vs. California Supreme Court decision. Unfortunately the courts have not yet extended the reach of that decision to financial aid/scholarships and it currently works only for raw admissions data. </p>
<p>Again, if tuition and room and board were what they were 30 years ago, we wouldn’t be discussing this issue as we are. Schools charge what they do because they can. And there is NO APPARENT accountability on how they spend it, including the tens of millions of dollars they spend on athletic teams and coaches salaries. </p>
<p>That is my rant. If you don’t agree, fine. We just differ on that point.</p>