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The non p5 are always facing an uphill battle by tahoeirish89

but those charts are interesting.

$18B industry as a whole - 19.1% is coaches comp and 16.1% is admin comp and severances.

19.3% is athletic student aid. A combined 28% makes up facility and game and travel expenses. 12.8% is lumped into other which I assume is marketing and whatever else.

I understand that for the non-p5 they receive 36.7% revenue from Institution and Government supports. I just think it seems like there's plenty to go around, it just depends on how you cut up the pie. Like any other business. It's easy to tell the line worker sorry there's not enough for you to get a raise, the CEO needed a bit more so there wasn't any left.

Now if we're going to fully operate as business that's fine. Pay the players and if you want to tell them to kick rocks after 5 years then fine. But this bs about there not being enough money is a joke. Tell the fat ass in the administration office who keeps calling me about my final payment for my season tickets that we outsourced her job to the Philippines to help save some money so we could grant Timmy another year of eligibility.