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And now you know a contributing factor to rising college tuition. Paying for non-profitable athletic endeavors like women’s and men’s college soccer (and any other sport except football and men’s b-ball). $450k per year for scholarships, plus add the costs for coach and trainer pay, facilities, insurance, travel, food, equipment, etc. I love it, but it really is not worth it in my opinion. Hopefully, my kid can claw some of this back but I feel sorry for all the other kids that have to pay for others to play a sport. I suppose the alumni donations help too ... some. [/quote]

Not really.

Take a fully funded women’s soccer team at a college that cost $25K a year for tuition, room and board. You will have 1 head coach ($100,000) and 2 Asst coaches ($60,000) and the team’s share of administrative expenses - locker rooms, uniforms, shoes, training staff, programs, office space, field maintenance, time from athletic director, meals, athletic study room etc. call that another $150,000.  So, figure $300-350K hard costs.  Add another $50,000 for travel.  Ballpark $350-400K out of pocket a year.  Let’s say there are 28 kids on the roster. There’s often more and sometimes you could find teams with 25 or so.  28 is not a bad guesstimate.  Fully funded that would mean on average everyone pays 50% of the attendance cost or $12,500 per athlete.  That’s $350K.  The team will raise $25K in advertising, ticket sales, etc.   So, out of pocket to a college a fully funded team so close to break even.   Most Div 1s are not fully funded though.  Cut your scholarships from 14 to 7 and now the school is putting six figures into its pocket.

See, the incremental cost of adding 28 soccer players into a student population of say 25,000 is essentially zero.  No one is hiring anyone for that team that isn’t being covered by the dollars generated from tuition the team members play. And, the school is not keeping a full pay student from coming because they have 28 women soccer players who take up too much room. [/quote]

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