Recent Article The first part of this KCRA "investigative series" aired last night. My wife and I saw it and we both agreed that it was terrible reporting. It felt heavily biased and very misleading.
They included just a couple of sentences from a brief interview with Kevin Blue that didn't even scratch the surface of the topic. UC Davis Finance Director, Kelly Ratliff, was very articulate and essentially said that, yes, athletics receives funding from a variety of sources just as all the academic departments do as well and it is UCD's goal that they are all represented and supported fairly.
They started the piece off by talking to a professor from Shenandoah University, Dr Fritz Polite, who began by calling college athletics the "the athletics industrial complex." So you get an idea about just how unbiased he seems to be.
It was awful news journalism and the worst part is that it is to be continued with more "investigative reports" to be aired.