Rutgers athletics rang up another $73 million deficit in the last fiscal year as spending reached an all-time high of $118 million amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Students and taxpayers had to cover the gap. The new numbers — part of a report to the NCAA released late Tuesday— show Rutgers athletics received more university support in fiscal 2020-21 than any other public university in a major conference through 2019-20, going back to at least 2005.
