Rutgers’ Athletics Deficit Reveals the Hidden Caste in the College Sports Hierarchy

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Rutgers’ Athletics Deficit Reveals the Hidden Caste in the College Sports Hierarchy

By Dr. Andrew Zimbalist
Originally published August 16, 2020

The Rutgers athletics department should be required to hang a sign outside its front office: DANGER, KEEP OUT. It has been running growing financial deficits since 2003; piled up hundreds of millions of dollars in debt; been upgraded to the Big Ten, where its football team is accumulating a dismal competitive record; and experienced multiple coaching and AD scandals.

Read the entire Op-Ed in Forbes.