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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 798483, member: 2531"] 1. Regarding the scholarship costs, I originally said: "[I]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.[/I]" 2. As far as the Dome, that isn't a private/public thing. Every university does it differently. However, I've also seen it written somewhere that the rent covers maintenance costs of the Dome. So, instead of paying maintenance, we pay rent. Although it technically is an expense that most athletic departments don't have to pay, at the end of the day, the total value of the expense is pretty similar. I would imagine the same thing is true with revenue. And even if it isn't, every school has quirky book-keeping practices, but that doesn't make them unreliable. Given the staggering size of many athletic budgets and the endless listings of potential revenues and expenses, odds are that they balance out. That's especially true since pretty much all athletic departments have the same motives. **The truth is that every athletics department in the country dramatically understates revenue. How many orange shirts with "Syracuse" written on them would be sold if SU stopped playing sports? Yet, I would be amazed if the athletics dept. gets credit for any of those sales, unless the shirt has an athletic-related picture or text written on it. [/QUOTE]

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