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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3226981, member: 1414"] Come on. The real cost of athletic scholarships is zero. UConn isn’t hiring any faculty as a result of those kids. It’s just bumping class sizes. Now the room and board is a real cost. As for nobody pays that, I’m seriously doubt that the group of recruited athletes, if admitted to UConn on a normal basis, would be charged full freight. Some might, many would qualify for need based assistance. Others are in state kids. The whole $40m deficit is a fiction. Not saying the AD makes money, of course not, but it’s not as far in the hole as is reported. Good luck to the state keeping XL open without UConn basketball and hockey, and yet we pay them and they keep the concessions and parking I believe. That’s revenue generated by UConn athletics that is being redirected. Edit: curious about these “costs”. I am fairly sure a random 20 year old living off campus could audit a whole semester at UConn and (a) nobody would notice and (b) it wouldn’t raise UConn’s costs by more than the cost of materials in any lab type class. I understand that the schools spread their budget across total students to come up with cost per each. Same as k-12. But vast amounts of that budget aren’t being used to educate these kids, in both cases. [/QUOTE]