Getting to the top of college sports often takes financial, as well as athletic prowess.
Over the past few weeks, everyone has gotten a chance to witness the basketball skills required to make it to the Final Four.
Thanks to the Knight Commission’s data, you can get a sense of the priorities of the Final Four teams below, and make that judgment for yourself. Inside the finances of the Final Four teams At Michigan State University, athletics are self-funded and the school uses no tuition or fees to support its athletic teams, Mark Haas, the school’s vice president for finance and treasurer, wrote in an emailed statement. In some years, the school’s athletic program has provided funding to its academic mission, Haas wrote.
Weaning Texas Tech athletics off institutional funds When Lawrence Schovanec began his tenure as president of Texas Tech in 2016, he tasked the school’s chief financial officer and other officials with making the university’s athletic department self-sustaining, he said in an interview.
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