(01-23-2018 01:26 AM)ColKurtz Wrote:  

(01-22-2018 09:40 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  I'm OK with reasonable athletic fees, it is after all an amenity but there has to be a limit. $100 a semester not a big deal. $300? That's pushing it. $500? Come on.

$500? Dream on.

"A few examples help to illustrate the point. Public schools playing at the Division II level without a football program have the lowest costs. (All costs are measured in 2013 dollars.) With 1,000 students, their per-student costs for athletics are about $2,500. If they have more than 3,000 students, their per-student costs fall to around $1,000."

"For public schools playing FBS football, the costs are much higher, but so too are the numbers of students. At 10,000 students the per-student costs are around $4,400; at 20,000 students the costs are about $2,600; and for a truly large state school with 40,000 students, the costs fall to just over $1,500"

This was 2013 costs. Going out on a very short limb and predicting they haven't gone down.

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2015/12/...ge-sports/

Thats the athletic budget divided by the number of students. Its doesnt count offsetting revenue from ticket sales, donations, parking, concessions, conference revenue distributions, sponsorships, naming rights, ect. At the D3, D2, and FCS level--there probably isnt much difference between the athletic budget and the net cost to the students. At the FBS level there is a significant revenue offset.