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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 1155576, member: 2531"] No. I'm just not a moron. Type "who pays for athletic scholarships" into google. There are a couple hundred million hits that explain that athletic departments generally pay the bill. Most of those stories are from goofy sites, but some are from sites like ESPN, which have a degree of credibility (at least in this matter which is pretty objective). That's further substantiated by DoE filings (search "equity in athletics" if you don't believe me) which are required by Title IX (although admittedly DoE filings don't definitively prove anything other than the fact that the AD is in the black because they're done on an organizational level, not a departmental level - they just suggest that the AD foots the bill). And interviews with various athletic directors. Specifically, I think VT's AD has an interview on the matter 1-2 years ago, and Dr. Gross (which is definitive proof) has an interview on the matter, which he gave around '07-'08. In fact, the myth that SU athletics loses money didn't really gain traction until the AD wanted to get out of paying the entire BIG EAST buyout. Weird coincidence, no? Beyond that, all you have to do is grasp the concepts of fixed costs and variable costs, and you're pretty much there. Any payments in excess of the marginal cost of adding a student (i.e. the variable cost of that student) is a subsidy that artificially overstates the cost of the paying party. That isn't conplicated accounting/econ, and it isn't contraversial. That's just the application of definitions into a logical truth. I only seem like a "know it all," because I'm arguing against someone who doesn't believe the DoE filings which show us deep in the black, who doesn't Dr. Gross interviews which explain that the AD is in the black and that it pays for scholarships, and who doesn't believe general industry trends and/or basic principals of econ/accounting apply to Syracuse, but won't and/or can't explain why. The guy is so bent on portraying Syracuse as hopeless, he is willing to sound like a conspiracy theorist. The fact of the matter is that Suracuse is far from hopeless and the SU AD has deep pockets and resources to spend if it needs to. Right now those resources are being diverted to a combination of A) the school, B) no revenue sports, and C) a rainy day fund. I believe that we need to hangs our priorities and back football more. If you disagree, then fine. That's a matter of opinion. Whether or not we have the money and how the money flows isn't. [/QUOTE]

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