From the Charleston Daily Mail:
Marshall University students pay about $890 a year, or nearly a fifth of what tuition costs, to support the university’s sports programs.
By contrast, West Virginia University students are required to pay only $157 a year…
Looking at the money Marshall sends from its university side to its athletic department, about 19 percent of its overall tuition revenue goes to fund sports, according to the center’s data.
In other words, if Marshall eliminated its fees for the athletic department, it could cut student tuition by nearly a fifth. But then, its athletic department would lose about half the money it uses to operate each year…
June 7th, 2010 at 3:31PM
Good news for 2009: Marshall won the Pizza Bowl. Bad news: What sounds worse than a pizza bowl?
June 7th, 2010 at 3:59PM
tydee bowl?
June 8th, 2010 at 8:01AM
The correct corporate name is The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl. That sounds a little better, but I have always wondered why Little Caesars cannot afford an apostrophe for their name.
June 8th, 2010 at 8:05AM
Come to think of it, Mr. P., the former name of the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl was The Motor City Bowl. Given the urban wreckage of Detroit, the name change was probably a good one.