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http://www.annarbor.com/news/eastern-michigan-university-fis...

That was their athletic department's official budget for 2014.

HuffPost has a table that implies an annual budget, but the numbers are actually for 5 years, and that is not clearly stated directly on the table. That fact makes all of the other numbers that they provide suspicious.

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Yes, and that link goes on to say "The operating budget does not include $7.1 million in scholarships for student athletes, which also are funded by the general fund."

Which agrees with the numbers I quoted.

> and that is not clearly stated directly on the table

Is this the table which ends with "Source: 2010-2014 NCAA Financial Reports" and the link to the methodology which says "detailing athletics spending between 2010 and 2014", and where each university is hyperlinked to a scorecard (like http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/projects/ncaa/subsidy-sco... ) which says "Total subsidy income, 2010 - 2014"?

And where the subsidy is given in percentages, so the time period doesn't really make much of a difference? And further linked to the primary documents for each year?

And you are suspicious because .. why? What would have made you not suspicious? Because as far as I can tell, the only reason for your doubt is that you chose a methodology (look at a headline from a Google search), assumed they did the same one, and compared the two without checking to see if it was a meaningful comparison.