{"id":117903,"date":"2025-09-04T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117903\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:41:08","slug":"the-belichick-effect-and-the-money-sucking-machine-of-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117903\/","title":{"rendered":"The Belichick effect and the money-sucking machine of college football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College football has become a money-sucking machine, with schools spending every dollar possible to keep up in an athletics arms race. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill entered the fray this year in spectacular fashion, betting big on legendary NFL coach Bill Belichick in the hopes that he\u2019ll elevate the school\u2019s football program. But why are universities, especially those with academic and research clout, pouring all of this money into athletics in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<\/p>\n<p>Scott Dochterman, national college football reporter for The AthleticMatt Hartman, higher education reporter for The Assembly\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College football has become a money-sucking machine, with schools spending every dollar possible to keep up in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-117903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}