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College sports economics

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Is It Mathin's Locker Room, or Is It an Arms Race?

Athletic facilities have created an arms race, he says. The money goes into all these things that aren't really burgeoning the academics a the mission that the university theoretically exists for. It's hard to argue that this lot w waterfall in the locker room has a specific academic purpose,. "It exists because we're trying to recruit football players, and we can't pay them directly"

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