This article from the Washington Post focuses on how the college’s athletic departments are spending way more money than what they bring in. Will Hobson and Steven Rich, the authors of this article, use specifics such as Rutgers and Auburns Athletic Programs. Auburn for example, spent $13.9 million to build an 11,000 square foot, high definition screen (the size of a five-story building). Rutgers on the other hand spent $102 million on expanding the football stadium in a hope to bring the program back to a financially self-sufficient point. Neither of these investments led to a greater profit in either school and ultimately led to these schools being in debt. The article keeps going into more in depth and more examples of how schools are spending more than they bring in. Only a select number of schools in the entire country are actually not spending more than they should. Will Hobson and Steven Rich both seem to be credible sources. Will Hobson is a sports reporter for Washington Post and Steven Rich is a Database Investigator for Investigations.
This source will be very helpful for our forum because it goes into how college spends the revenue they bring in. This article shows how colleges are spending the money poorly and it doesn’t look good on the school. This reflects back onto our topic because we are trying to figure out how we can truly fix how colleges spend the revenue created from sports. Whether these colleges could spend the money smarter, such as paying their hard working athletes who ultimately deserve the money. This article doesn’t raise many questions because it is such a well thought out one and it goes into detail on every aspect of the article. This source is a true summary because it follows the overall arc, or the most important parts of the text. This type of summary was best and most helpful because it followed exactly how I needed it to be to work for our forum.
-Joshua Bradley