Does your college football roster cost $8M or $50M? Here's our report on 68 teams
The New York Times • • sports
Key Points:
- Coaches often underreport their budgets to manage fan expectations and prevent players from demanding higher salaries.
- School administrators tend to overstate their budgets to appear as successful fundraisers.
- Program affiliates frequently highlight competitors' higher budgets to justify requests for increased funding from their own supporters.
- The information from these sources is approached with skepticism when estimating actual budget figures.
