Fewer than 1% of athletes help make more than 90% of the NCAA's money

The Indianapolis Star reports:

As a college basketball player at the University of Kansas, Scot Pollard said his family couldn't afford to give him money. He said he lived off his girlfriend, now his wife, and when her money ran out, he brought home food from the athletic training table.


Meanwhile, Pollard recalled, the school sold jerseys with his No. 31. Perhaps that explains the current Indiana Pacer's rueful reaction when shown a financial analysis of last year's NCAA men's basketball tournament.
According to financial forms obtained by The Indianapolis Star through public-records requests, 43 of the 50 public-school teams in last year's tournament generated a combined $267 million for their athletic departments, mostly in ticket sales, donations and TV revenue. Those schools gave out a total of $12 million in men's basketball scholarships. The rest was used to pay for coaches, administrators and money-losing sports -- basically, all others except football.
"Who's benefiting from that?" Pollard said. "Not the basketball players who are generating (the money). The people who are benefiting are in the nonrevenue sports. We knew there were female soccer players who were getting scholarships because of us. At a basketball school, Kansas, we knew that. But there was nothing we could do about it."

No word yet from the Womens Studies departments on how important non-revenue sports are for the socialist ethic.