Date of Creation
4-1-2019
Degree Type
Departmental Honors Thesis - Restricted Access
First Advisor
Professor Joshua Congdon-Hohman
Abstract
Spending in collegiate athletics has been continuously rising in what some would describe as an “arms race.” A key expenditure of these collegiate athletic programs is in the form of scholarships they grant to student athletes. Little research has been done on how this athletically related aid impacts athletic program success in the NCAA. Using multiple ordinary least squared regressions to examine the relationship between athletic aid and NACDA Directors’ Cup points for Division I and II institutions, this paper answers how athletically related aid impacts program success, both in terms of dollars spent and estimated number of scholarships granted. The paper finds inconclusive results for Division I due to the high collinearity of financial variables, supporting the presence of the “arms race”, but finds that in Division II athletically related aid has a strong and positive relationship with program success.
Recommended Citation
Klier, Matthew K., "Athletically Related Aid and Collegiate Athletic Program Success" (2019). Economics and Accounting Honors Theses. 21.
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/econ_honor/21