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Gap between haves, have-nots grows

By Graham Watson
ESPN.com

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Just 25 of the 119 Football Bowl Subdivision athletic departments finished with positive bottom lines at the end of the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years. The figures for 2008-09 could be worse when they are tabulated by Dan Fulks, an accounting professor at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., who has been an NCAA consultant for 20 years. Katie Hill, Clemson's senior associate athletic director and the department's chief financial officer, knows this scenario all too well. She sa ...

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