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[QUOTE="djcon57, post: 1912475, member: 62"]
It's just not...Here's an article with an explanation of these numbers you posted. (And before anyone wants to blast Deadspin and Vice as sources...go ahead, I'm with you, but Andy Schwarz is actually an economist)

[URL="https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/college-sports-program-accounting-scam"]College Sports Programs Are Playing Poor, Here's How to Fix It | VICE Sports[/URL]

[URL]http://deadspin.com/how-athletic-departments-and-the-media-fudge-the-cost-1570827027[/URL]

"In her informative book, [URL='http://www.amazon.com/Saturday-Millionaires-Winning-Football-Colleges/dp/1118386655'] [I]Saturday Millionaires[/I][/URL], sports business writer Kristi Dosh provides an excellent example of this by detailing all of the various ways that Ohio State imposes fictional costs on its athletic department (rather than real, cash-based expenditures), with the seeming goal of moving profit from sports (mostly football) to the general coffers of the school.

Among the expenses the school charges its athletic department are $8.5 million for "overhead," "physical plant assessment," "cost containment" and "university fundraising," and another $1 million for "library renovations." (There's also $15.7 million in scholarship costs, but[URL='http://regressing.deadspin.com/how-athletic-departments-and-the-media-fudge-the-cost-1570827027'] you can read about the fictionalization of scholarship costs elsewhere[/URL].)"
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