An argument for athletic spending at Division 3 (and to some extent, Division 2) schools is that it is an important student recruiting device: at some liberal arts schools, 30-40 percent of students are on some intercollegiate team, and the figure is 10 percent or so at some Division 2 schools (as opposed to well under 5 percent at most FBS powerhouses).
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It would appear, however, that total athletic spending at the Division 2 schools well exceeds one billion dollars a year, and probably two billion dollars annually for Division II and III combined.
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There is truly a continental divide with respect to the economics of Division I schools.
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For FBS Division I schools among the top quartile, 27% of their generated total revenues stem from alumni contributions.
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But for Division I schools either with smaller football programs or without football altogether, covering that expense might prove prohibitive.
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The share of athletic expenses coming from generated revenues fell from 17 to 12 percent at Division II schools with football from 2004 to 2009.
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In many of the highest profile Division 1 schools, African Americans have a significant presence in the starting lineups and on the team as a whole.
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Not only that, the Crusaders are doing it in a year in which none of the Division I schools from the state so much as managed to make the NCAA tournament.
The reason Jerry Sandusky was able to perpetrate his evil is because at Penn State (as at hundreds of other Division I schools across America) sports have exceeded academics in importance.
Marshall's efforts to secure a home-and-home series with either or both have met with such futility that a state senator from Wichita this winter introduced a bill that would require the state's three Division I schools to play each other.
This estimate stems from using data from the NCAA Revenues and Expense Report for 2010 (specifically, pages 29-30 of the report which break down the average allocation of revenues at all FBS Division I schools as well as a break down by quartile).
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Given the frequency with which college coaches are courted by the NFL, the ultra competitive recruiting landscape, the higher-than-average academic standards relative to other Division I schools, and the inherent uncertainty of knowing how 18-22 year old kids will perform under pressure, there are no guarantees for prolonged success.
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While some economists remain downbeat about Japan's economy, there is also an important division between two schools of recent optimists.
So when a highly prized teenager without enough money to pay for expenses beyond tuition, room and board and books, he and his parents cannot rely on a uniform standard across the 120 Division 1 FBS schools to determine which school offers enough to cover the full cost of attendance.
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Each school will play the other six schools in its division plus two teams from the other division in 2014 and 2015, which will serve as transitional years in which the schools will still be playing eight-game, league schedules.
The problem is compounded because all three Westerville high schools are in the same division of the Ohio Capital Conference, said league commissioner Dave Cecutti.
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He said that schools were not the primary cause of division and were not responsible for achieving a shared society.
When Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were placed into the South Division of the Big 12 with the old SWC schools, it caused scheduling of the OU-Nebraska to be nearly impossible.
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As Masani points out, India has endured linguistic division of states and language riots, but English medium schools thrive in towns and villages today.
He said it also put construction jobs at risk and would see capital funding diverted to free schools, which would lead to greater social division.
Despite operating under by-laws which purport to be focused on the welfare of college athletes, when the NCAA held a vote to allow (but not to require) schools to offer four- or five-year scholarships, 205 of 330 Division I institutions voted against the new rule and the measure passed by the narrowest of margins, as a supermajority of 207 schools was needed to uphold the ban.
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