Ohio State lists 458 people in its athletic department. Included are the athletic director (who’s also a vice president of the university), four people with the title senior associate athletic director, 12 associate athletic directors, an associate vice president, a “senior associate legal counsel for athletics” and plus a nine-person NCAA compliance office. NCAA rules are complex, to be sure, but does Ohio State really needs nine people who do nothing but push NCAA paperwork? The Ohio State NCAA compliance staff is lean and mean compared to the football staff, which includes 13 football coaches, a director of football operations, three associate directors of football operations, a “director of football performance” and three football-only trainers.How do these numbers compare to academic departments at the school? There are 192 faculty members in Ohio State’s English department, with a support staff of about 50. Thus the Ohio State athletic department has roughly twice as many people as the Ohio State English department. Sports receive more staffing than English though nearly all Ohio State students at some juncture take a course through the English department, while few participate in NCAA athletics. And sports receive more staffing than English, though there is a widespread feeling that many Americans are inadequately educated in subjects such as English, while not one single person in the entire United States believes there isn’t enough emphasis on sports.