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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3503267, member: 9403"] Here's what I'm getting at: as I posted elsewhere: Stanford has the fourth largest university endowment in the world at $26.5 billion - UT as a system is second with $30 billion. If Stanford is doing staff and faculty hiring freezes, I'd be shocked if UT wasn't too, especially since UT is reliant on the state for support, and every state budget in the country is about to bleed red, especially Texas, where revenue from black gold is going up in smoke. And if there isn't a football season, UT's AD budget is going to dry up by 3/4ths. At a minimum, a 50% increase in salary for one coach is going to look really tone-deaf given all the other cuts that I'm almost certain will be coming to UT's AD, just like every other AD in the country. Sorry to be Cassandra here, but folks need to face facts that the revenue system of college sports is going to undergo a massive, massive, overhaul in the next few years. [B]No one[/B] is going to be looking to expand their financial commitments in the next twelve months. [/QUOTE]