Athletics are an enormous part of the college atmosphere, but with the struggling economy, academic programs, and faculty salaries it’s hard to for the university to fund them. Big time athletic programs can put up to $45,000,000 in all their athletic programs; including men’s, women’s, coach’s salary, and travel expenses. "More than $800 million in student fees and university subsidies are propping up athletic programs at the nation's top sports colleges, including hundreds of millions in the richest conferences" (Gillum) which means that the students are having to pay extra student fees and higher tuition rates for the college sports; but from study’s I have seen, students are willing to pay that extra money. On the other hand, some people want the government to help fund athletics at universities, but why should the government help out if the athletics are just going to raise the coaches’ salaries and build new facilities? "The ultimate goal is to have the athletics department running on its own, but students here love big-time athletics ... and they are willing and eager to help athletics as much as possible." (Gillum)
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