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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 4658568, member: 153"] Schools without D1 athletic programs have sky high applications and brand / name recognition. You can even look at state schools like Vermont, and they have the same kind of high applications that UConn does. It's a dynamic going on everywhere. As long as schools maintain the same in-state / out-of-state balance that they do (80/20), there is little benefit. In terms of branding, yes. Athletics will sell more sweatshirts. But by and large, the kids going to the top publics would go there regardless, since so many students are limited to going in-state. As for who pays for a particular building, in many cases it is the departments. So many facilities are built with research grant funding. In fact, at my school, our department owns parts of the building because we purchased it with our money. If someone wants it, we rent it out. We operate as a collective with other departments who also own their own classrooms and office space. We pay for any tech enhancements, we pay for upkeep. The actual college only owns maybe 5 rooms on 10 floors of this building. I run a university program that uses a performance space (a music hall) in town, precisely because the person who owns it (a well known singer) lets us use it for free. If I wanted to run our stuff at the music hall on campus, the school of the arts would want a huge rental fee from our program, because they built it with their own money. Going back to Oklahoma State, remember this story? [URL='https://www.texasmonthly.com/burka-blog/pickens-huge-donation-for-oklahoma-state-athletics-may-be-wiped-out/']Pickens’ Huge Donation for Oklahoma State Athletics May Be Wiped Out[/URL] It ended up that OSU faculty won a $400m research grant that required a new building for the research. But the school could not bond the building because their credit rating was impacted by the high debt from going forward with the building of the stadium despite the very high losses in their endowment and the money that Boone promised but could not immediately provide. After OSU could not bond the research building, the faculty actually lost the grant. Pickens came through several years later in 2012 and provided the funding to finish the building (which was counted as athletics revenue) but in the meantime, OSU had lost the biggest research grant in its history. These grants do indeed pay for buildings. [/QUOTE]

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