NCAA report: College sports spending keeps skyrocketing

Source: USA Today Posted By: pilot008 5475 days ago

Critics rail. The NCAA preaches restraint. But spending on college athletics continues to soar, a new study finds.
Major college programs increased their operating budgets by nearly 11% annually — bumping up expenditures by well more than a third over a recent three-year span — according to the report commissioned by the NCAA. That more than doubled the average 4.9% annual rise in universities' overall spending.

Spending on sports at the average school in the NCAA's top-tier Football Bowl Subdivision....

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