Knight Commission Database on Athletic and Academic Spending for Division I

[texcap]

The NCAA's Knight Commission just released a searchable database on academic and athletic spending for all Division I schools. I have not had a chance to look at it much but thought others would like to see it.

The link to the database is here: http://spendingdatabase.knightcommission.org/ (http://spendingdatabase.knightcommission.org/)

There is an article at Inside Higher Education on the database here: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013 ... c-spending (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/12/04/new-database-allows-users-compare-sports-and-academic-spending)

[Dane96]

No idea how they are coming up with their numbers. The glaring one for Albany: Debt Service on Athletic Facilities was $3,000,000 in 2011. This number CANNOT be correct. There is no debt service on ANY facility other than the new stadium that wasn't even built until 2013.

[Bogus Megapardus]

Remember - these are public institutions only, and among those included, there exists a very wide range of policy for accounting such things. This is nothing more than fodder for the Inside Higher Ed types.

[BEAR]

It shows UCA spent an increasing amount on the academic side for nonathletic students and spends 20% less on educating student athletes than the median for FCS schools. Interesting. The big gripe in Conway is how much athletics spends when the reality of these stats is just the opposite! A good, no great A.D. works wonders with his/her budget.

[Twentysix]

NDSU is 2k per year cheaper than the average FCS instiution for FTE. Interesting.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

Five years ago, the APR measurement was revealed to general fanfare by the academic population. Now we'll see if these kids are really graduating!, you can hear them say to themselves.

Five years later, APR rates are through the roof! Why? Because schools spend more on academic compliance, something driven by the way the NCAA implements the APR and punishes those schools that fall below their arbitrary threshold.

Now, we learn from this report that spending extra on athletes is bad!

Which is it - the APR is great, or spending extra on athletes is bad? The Knight Commission came up with both the APR and this report attempting to shame schools in regard to athletic spending. Chutzpah is the word that leaps to mind.

[Bogus Megapardus]

Chutzpah is a word that leaps to mind.

Assploding hypocrisy is another.

[RichH2]

Gee,NCAA got what it wanted,more emphasis on academics. Sorta shows us that the pursuit of academics for college athletes is only for PR and it had better not cost any money.xblehx