Is college athletics about students or big business? It’s clearly the latter, Don Krieger writes in @TDOnline, after unbeaten FSU was left out of the College Football Playoff. The Seminoles brought in $161 million in revenue last year.
Power Five schools promote men’s teams more on social media, @ESPN found. Using #KnightNewhouse data, @pinepaula & @UsernameShwe showed that when schools spend money for marketing specific teams, they usually spend more on the men.
Boosters for Texas and Texas A&M put them in the top three public FBS school, @SportsDayDFW reports using #KnightNewhouseData. Only Oregon surpassed those schools in contributions from 2005-22.
At flagship public universities, student fees and university subsidies for athletics totaled $632 million in 2022. That is part of an “unfettered spending spree,” @melissakorn, @anfuller & @ForsythJenn found in @wsj. #KnightNewhouseData
