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[QUOTE="nzm136, post: 794420, member: 2531"]
1. I disagree. Government numbers are almost always far and away the most reliable. All schools expense scholarships for athletes under the athletic department budget and credit it under the academic budget. That's the norm. It isn't just a private schools thing. There is even explicitly a box in the DOE pages that handles just that. In other words, even though they do include it, they don't try to hide the fact that they did include it, or the amount. However, you're right that private schools tend to have higher tuitions, so they are disproportionally affected. None the less, if you're going to take scholarship expenses out of Syracuse's budget, you have to take it out of UL, FSU, and all the other schools, and I know for a fact that the UL, FSU, and many of the other numbers include scholarships.
 
2. I don't work for the university accounting department, but my guess is that 1.these numbers are from before we committed to build a new IPF, 2. the athletics department is heavily taxed by the university, 3. we are probably going to add sports soon to get in line with the other athletic departments in the ACC, which are bigger than their counterparts in the BIG EAST.
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