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Message: [QUOTE="Gburyhusky, post: 4652810, member: 11572"] One aspect of this I find most intersting... when this issue comes up, invariably the national or regional media will bring up the athletics department defecit as a major consideration for the University (as was the case in the Forde Sports Illustrated piece from yesterday). But do you ever see or hear any of the state politicians complaining about the defecit? Not that I have seen. The state politicians are the most important people in all of this, since they largely have the power to limit or mandate the end of athletics defecit spending, and they also have the ability to publicly raise the issue in a way that would make it much more difficult for the University to spend big dollars on sports. So if the key people don't seem to be bothered by the spending issue, it would seem unlikely that the ultimate decision (if there is a decision to be made) would be driven solely by money. [/QUOTE]