<p>Enrolling basketball recruits who can barely read? Looking the other way while Reggie Bush's family receives money from agents?</p>
<p>Not questioning who provides the expensive leased SUVs for their revenue sport athletes?</p>
<p>Yeah, I'd say the top 20 or so BCS football programs and top b-ball programs are "guilty". Just pay 'em. After all, they are the players that make the huge revenues possible.</p>
<p>There are many schools in which the athletic department budget and the monies collected by the school from tuition/room/board/government propriations are entirely independent of each other and there is no mixing of the funds. (except for the money the athletic department gives to students in the form of scholarships that they eventually actually pay to the university as tuition). I know that the the University of Nebraska is set up this way. Theoretically the University itself could fold and the athletic teams remain financially viable (except for the whole student part of "student-athlete").</p>
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Not true for all the D1A schools. I would suggest that you look at Stanford, ND, BC and a few others. They have very broad sports programs with over 25 varsity teams.
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there are some big-time D1 programs with lots of varisty sports and these are 3 good examples and there are a few more ... but it is also true that in general the schools with the least varisty sports are big-time D1 football schools .... check out the varsity sports listings for the SEC and ACC schools for example. You want to see schools with lots of varisuty sports look to the schools losing money at football; as an overall pattern that is the correlation that exists.</p>
<p>Notre Dame players ARE student athletes. They attend the same classes, live in the same dorms, get the same degrees. They are part and parcel of the student body.</p>
<p>Bigredmed, you are absolutely right. Michigan is set up the same way. Revenue sports fund the non-revenue sports, and some significant amount of dollars go into the general fund in the form of athletic scholarships. When an athlete is recruited on a full scholarship, it's not that tuition is "waived"--rather, the athletic department pays the money to the U.</p>