That aligns with this:
https://knightnewhousedata.org/reports/f6b3b00e
The University receives funds for the school as a whole. That is not not unusual for a State School..The athletic department receives a small percentage of that. Most of that sum goes to waivers for scholarships. The free education cost of that is absorbed by the university..The AD doesn't get a wad of cash for that.
If your contention is that the AD is bankrupting the school and the state, I can't stop you. They have apparently been bankrupting everybody for 150 years..
The schools of the MW are doing fine..It just comes down to budgets and revenue..
I didn't say anything other than the athletic department at the University of Nevada gets subsidized by $20M per year. This is triple than what NDSU receives for state/state-institution support. I didn't say anyone is bankrupting anyone. I didn't even say that it's not money well spent. But any organization that gets half of its money subsidized by a public entity is going to have questions about its sustainability. Especially when that subsidization rate is increasing.
I've said it a dozen times here: if NDSU (or SDSU, UND, Montana, Montana State, etc.) was subsidized like the rest of the MW schools, they would have MW budgets.
After a while some of this starts to sound like how proud we are in North Dakota that the public doesn’t pay very much to support public institutions of higher education.
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Feel free to hear what you want to hear I guess. I didn’t say what you’re insinuating, I could argue actually the opposite. Nothing would make me happier than ND investing more in higher education. We could spend all weekend arguing whether state money going towards athletics counts as going towards education. I’ll choose to save my breath on that.
What I’m saying is the difference in athletic budgets at NDSU and Nevada is state support. Winds blow and that state/institution support ends up not being as safe as previously thought.
BisonJD put this in MVFC thread... Wheres OUR PRESIDENT talking about this? we gonna let misery state move up b4 us?
Missouri State President believes Athletics Program will move to FBS
https://www.news-leader.com/story/sp...t/70189082007/
NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?