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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 4336855, member: 3850"] In Florida...the athletic departments of the University of Florida, FSU, and UCF...are now incorporated as DSO's...Direct Service Organizations. At FSU, the athletics department is renamed The Florida State University Athletic Association uniting Seminole Boosters, Inc and the athletic department. [I]“It’s a shift away from that traditional model of a university running a college sports program centrally as part of the educational process to something that is more consistent with modern college sports,” Rapp told The Athletic. “It’s big business, and this is part of the university’s business interest.[/I] The move to the AD being incorporated as a DSO essentially removes layers of state bureacracy from processes. “So why do we want to go through the layers of bureaucracy, board committees on finance and property acquisition, full board meetings, etc. ? [I]Every time we want to make a business move, we’re constrained to operate like a slow-moving state bureaucracy, but what we are is a multi-million or -billion dollar business, and we want to be able to move at the speed that that requires. Florida State hasn’t done anything wrong in making this move.”[/I] [URL='http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=1000-1099/1004/Sections/1004.28.html'][I]Under Florida Statutes, as a DSO,[/I][/URL][I] the FSUAA receives a public records exemption and public meetings exemption. FSUAA donors can retain anonymity even in the required annual financial audit of its accounts and records. “Even though they have state-level liability protections, they’re a layer removed from the public eye in terms of their obligation to produce documents, open meetings laws and things like that,” Rapp said. “I think that is probably not the motivating factor, but it’s certainly an added benefit for FSU in making a move like this.”[/I] [/QUOTE]

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