Itâ??s not always easy to add up the millions of dollars that major universities spend on their athletic departments. But each year, the NCAA collects dozens of revenue and expense items from each of its sanctioned schools. Are they worth the big-time costs? USA TODAY, through public-records requests filed to about a hundred Football Bowl Subdivision universities, examined several yearsâ?? worth of line-by-line athletic revenues and expenses. Often times, the sources of revenue, when adjusted for inflation, have increased since 2005.
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