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Message: [QUOTE="J187Money, post: 2514707, member: 718"] Thanks - that's the first actual data point I've seen on this. Oddly enough one of the only things you can't find on google is the differential in operating costs between FBS and FCS football programs. Wonder what happened on the donor side. I've seen other articles about the costs to upgrade, and the price tag is big, because you need better stadiums / practice facilities / etc. I feel like in our case you wouldn't save $17M by dropping down. My guess it is $5M. And while that's a real number, it is a rounding error in the overall operating budget of the school. If that's all you get - the downside is more than the upside that you get by getting it right. We just need to get it right. Lots of schools do it with a lot less money than we are spending. [/QUOTE]