Analysis: Who is winning in the high-revenue world of college sports?
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 18, 2023
The Issue:
The U.S. hyper-commercialized system of college sports, which does not exist anywhere else in the world, is in a period of overarching transition and deep financial crisis. A select share of Division I college athletes produce billions of dollars of revenue every year for their schools. Almost all of this revenue comes from football and men's basketball.
And yet, expenditures . . .