This is low-hanging fruit for reporters who cover a college sports program at public universities. Make that expensive fruit.
If they haven't already, reporters should make an open-records request to gain access to the financial report of their school's athletic department that gets filed annually to the NCAA. In many cases, the numbers will be illuminating, if not eye-popping.
"These reports can be a great tool for any sports reporter to look at the type of spending that goes on at an individual school," said Will Hobson, a reporter at The Washington Post.
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