My daughter would not have gone to her college without the athletics (and athletic scholarship), nor would about 1/4 of the students, many who are internationals. It is a marketing investment and yes, brings in the warm bodies.
Yes, you can say the school budgets for the athletic money (most of which never leaves the school, just goes from one pocket to another), but it also budgets for the telescopes, and the music practice rooms, and the special geology library that attract students to the school.
The budget submitted by the executive branch doesn’t hold a lot of weight. It also proposes no funding for public radio, for the arts, for libraries and museums. Same as were proposed in 2017 and 2018 and 2019, and those years all saw funding for public radio and the arts. Millions of dollars in funding.
The House makes the final budget.
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