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[QUOTE="mrl2016, post: 3818681, member: 8512"]
Businesses divest individual units all the time.

Look I get athletics will likely always run in the red but the coaches payroll number jumped out at me. I’d love to see the breakdown of that. If 90% of that is basketball and football okay. But I’d love to know how much is coming from sports I don’t see as ‘beneficial’ to the university.

Given only basketball, football, and hockey had any real ticket sales revenue, in my opinion, the accounting needs to be done on a sport by sport level and donations should be included. Make donors check a box for which sports they want there contribution to go towards, or a box for an equal allocation.

That way you can tell which are really performing poorly and which if any are in need of cuts. Manage each sport as its own individual P&L to push accountability throughout lower levels of the organization.

You know your sport is running deep in the red? Maybe you get creative and start a fundraiser. That’s better than having no idea and waiting for AD Dave to cut your sport
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