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[QUOTE="upstater, post: 3270597, member: 153"]
1. The multi-billion TV contracts don't add up to much for most schools. The bball one is reduced to $600m a year after the NCAA takes a cut for hosting all sports championships, then the rest is shared among 4000 schools, with even the big boys taking in under a million.

2. A lot of schools without athletic programs skyrocketed in selectivity in the last decade or so because of demographics. UConn may indeed be an outlier, like Boston College, in that sports really helped, but people who have studied this have shown that by and large sports have not helped schools rise academically, and some may have even been hurt by sports (Rutgers).

3. The people paying tuition ARE helping schools with their national profile. Without them, the schools collapse.

4. The kid who are working outside of school are also not receiving a full scholarship and room & board & all fees and books remitted, not to mention a $5k stipend. They work because they pay the school.
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