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[QUOTE="upstater, post: 4721389, member: 153"]
Since this Key Tweet thread has morphed into a bit of a free for all, I wonder what everyone here makes of E. Gordon Gee stepping down at West Virginia. He seems to have badly mismanaged the budget and they are in a deep deep hole. I saw that they heavily subsidize their athletics still, and now the whole university is slashing and burning. On the way out, Gee eliminated entire big departments.

Here is a UConn history professor with thoughts on Gee and also on the WSJ article about colleges and spending:

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It sounds like he's saying that after the bump in spending on liabilities and athletic facilities, the budget will return to previous years, but it in no way will match the state subsidy. He believes that the state legislature is primed to allow huge tuition hikes at UConn. At some point here, the school is going to get squeezed. And that's where the E. Gordon Gee comparison comes.

This is why you can only say something like, "The state covers the athletic subsidy" in a vacuum.
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