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Rutgers athletics subsidy no longer largest in nation

Not great, but still an impressive improvement. This is for the 2014-15 year, which was our first year in the Big Ten. Because of the buy-in period, our conference distributions were essentially the same as what we previously received from the Big East. The improvement (after eliminating one-time expenses related to changing conferences and the Mike Rice incident) came about through an increase in ticket sales, parking/concession revenue, and royalties/licensing/advertising.
 
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