Arms Race
January 2012
  DYNASTY?     SEC: The NFL of college football?   By every measure—championships, budgets, TV revenues, attendance, recruiting, etc.—the Southeastern Conference is sitting pretty. Very pretty.   Omaha World-Herald, 12-31-11
 
December 2011
 WOW FACTOR    Practice facilities lure recruits   City arena? Check. On-campus arena? Check. Two Hall of Fame coaches? Check. Check. And now there will be a new UConn basketball practice facility.   Hartford Courant, 12-29-11
 
 MOVING UP    D3 to D2 to D1-AA to D1-A non-AQ to D1-A AQ in 32 years   It has been a remarkable ride for UCF, and soon they’ll be playing AQ football.   Orlando Sentinel, 12-18-11
 
 BOWLS    Making the case for what's right about the bowl system   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author presents a reasoned case for keeping the bowl system.   Gary Stokan, SportsBusiness Journal, 12-19-11
 
 FB    Forbes: College Football's Most Valuable Teams   Rankings were based on value to the university (mostly football scholarships), value to the athletic department (net profit), value to its conference (bowl game payout) and value to the surrounding community (spending on game days).   Forbes, 12-22-11
 
 OPS    Big House, Big Attendance   The Michigan football team has broken its own record for average attendance per game.   AnnArbor.com, 12-14-11
 
 BUDGETS    Striving to thrive   Rutgers has had dramatic growth over the past decade, but it has resulted inRutgers' largest deficit ever: $26.8 million.   Star-Ledger, 12-11-11
 
 BUDGETS    Louisville on a roll   Surrounded by free-spending Big Ten and SEC programs, U of L is more than holding its own.   Louisville Courier-Journal, 12-4-11
 
November 2011
 RECRUITING    Siena stays competitive   Investments in brick and mortar for athletics are keeping a small school in the hunt.   Albany Times-Union, 11-26-11
 
 FB    Future home of Razorback Football Underway   The $28 million football center will include a new locker room, team meeting rooms, athletic training room, equipment room, a student-athlete lounge & study, coaches' offices, a recruiting reception area and a football museum.   Razorbacks.com, 11-4-11
 
October 2011
 BRICK&MORTAR    Facilities attracting attention   Minnesota's private colleges are impressing donators and students.   Minnesota Finance & Commerce, 9-28-11
 
September 2011
  $ IN/OUT     Football’s biggest earners—and biggest spenders   Here’s a sortable chart of football revenues and expenses for 117 D1-A programs.   Memphis Business Journal, 9-1-11
 
 REC CTR    UTEP Students Explore $32M Rec Center Expansion   New attractions include a 39-foot climbing wall, plus basketball courts, an indoor track and exercise machines.    El Paso Times, 8-30-11
 
 REALIGNMENT    The Big 12 Expansion Wheel   Here’s as good a scenario of the post-Texas A&M Big 12 as there is.   Yahoo! Sports, Dr. Saturday section, 8-31-11
 
August 2011
 BCS    TCU already ready to be a BCS pillar   Last year’s #2 ranking and next year’s move to the Big East are only two of many reasons why TCU has ascended to college football’s elite.  NY Times, 8-28-11
 
 EXPENDITURES    Surprise! Athletics budgets rise….   As has been observed, the arms race is alive and well in big-time athletics.   SportsBusiness Journal, 8-22-11
 
 SUBSIDIES    Football vs. French?     Rutgers becomes poster school of the athletics/academics funding issue.   Bloomberg News, 8-16-11
 
 SEC    Ole Miss: keeping up with the Joneses   It’s a tough road to hoe if you’re not in the top tier of the deep pocketed SEC schools, but Ole Miss is staying competitive in facilities.   Memphis Commercial Appeal, 8-8-11
 
July 2011
 FACILITIES    Work Continues on Multi-Purpose Field House   Duke’s Multi-Purpose Fieldhouse, an 80,000 square-foot facility, is just weeks away from completion.   goduke.com, 7-27-11
 
June 2011
 BUDGET FUNDING    USA Today study tracks reliance on allocated funds    Rutgers' $115 million in subsidies over the past 5 years was found to be the highest for any public school and nearly twice the subsidy of the next highest school among the power conferences.   USA Today, 6-28-11
 
 D1 REVS & EXPENSES    Money in, Money out   The annual accounting of D1 programs – officially known as the “2011 edition of Revenues and Expenses of NCAA Division I Intercollegiate Athletics Programs” – has been released, and it depicts a widening gap between haves and have-nots.   NCAA.org, 6-15-11
 
May 2011
 ACADEMICS    The Research Drain   As universities ante up more of their own money, many still slip in federal science ranking.   Chronicle of Higher Education, 5-9-11
 
 FACILITIES    St. Mary's College Announces New Athletic and Recreation Corridor   Baseball is big at SMC, and the facilities will be greatly improved with this major initiative.   SMC Athletics, 5-5-11
 
April 2011
 REVENUES   U-Iowa FB: $ Deep Dive   A stats freak from Iowa Hawkeyes News slices and dices financials way more than we ever wanted to know.   Iowa Hawkeyes News, 4-4-11
 
March 2011
 REFORM    Big-Time Sports in American Universities    Clips Interview / Book Review    Author Charles Clotfelter, a renowned economics professor at Duke University, argues that big-time sports are not the inconsequential student activity that universities imply it is; but that they have become a core function of the universities that engage in it.   Nick Infante, Clips Editor, 3-15-11
 
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