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Message: [QUOTE="MountainMan, post: 1804821, member: 7323"] I think you may be mixing academic donations with athletic donations. I'm talking money that is donated to the AD, not the academic side of the school. That's a whole different ballgame and I'm sure people are not donating that much money to athletics at the schools you mentioned. I think what you are seeing is the difference in people who value elite academics versus people who value W's on the sports page during football season. Let's be real, that's why these guys donate so much money to athletics. It's really interesting looking at donations. They seem to be very regional. Hard to imagine that lowly K State more than doubles donations at 22 million (and bigger AD budget with less subsidy)from somewhere like CU at 10 million who had an elite FB program not that long ago. Most of the PAC struggles with donations which is why they require so much subsidy to operate thier AD's. [/QUOTE]