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Message: [QUOTE="Punkbo, post: 5105170, member: 12056"] Thanks for the honest response. I’m a private investor who has worked alongside private equity for many years. While there are some “bad actors” in the business, the results in my experience have generally been positive, not only for the investor group, but also for the companies, their customers and their employees. I’ll assume you’ve had a different experience. I agree that injecting private equity into the college experience is not ideal, but the mission of college athletics is solely about generating profits at this point. Not to repeat past narratives, but the Ivy League is the only conference which at least tries to place academics above athletics and even that is questionable. When athletic departments spin out of the universities and become profit centers, private equity investors are much better suited to run these businesses rather than college administrators. Time will tell. Pick your poison. [/QUOTE]