Only a dozen Universities in the country have athletic programs that make a profit. The several hundred others, in order to compete, must use a great deal of funds from their general endowment funds just to keep their sports programs competitive. These same Universities get 80% of their scientific and engineering research funding from the federal government. If the athletic programs were downsized to realistic proportions like they were thirty years ago, they wouldn’t need so much money from the government. The government is, in actual fact, funding all the college sports programs in the nation. Not only are the professional style football teams of the University of Texas et al bankrupting virtually every other university in the nation, but they’re robbing from the military, and undermining the national defense.