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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Who gets the universities windfall?
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Honestly, I don't know. This sort of quantity of money is way over my head. But given some of the profits I've seen (even in the article) that the sports programs turned, I can't help but wonder what sort of benefit would be derived from taking that and plowing it back against tuition costs? The article mentioned Georgia State making 75 million in profit for 2012. That...could probably cover every students tuition and books for the year, freeing the students from trying to come up with it on their own (via loans, etc).
Now I'm really wondering what sort of benefits could be derived from taking the sports programs profits and plowing them into tuition. Start to have a lot of folks graduating university or college either debt free, or pretty close, I'd think.
Could probably even pay those athletes earning those profits a decent living wage, too. Nothing too extravagant, but say...40,000/year. A good, solid wage, especially for someone of their age.