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You're ignoring the fact some of the money is only given FOR sports. Plus the prominence sports brings in can help drive donations. I seem to recall the Unive
by runevault 16y ago
You're ignoring the fact some of the money is only given FOR sports. Plus the prominence sports brings in can help drive donations. I seem to recall the University of Arkansas getting some serious donations recently to fund giving their football head coach a nice raise, so that money could not go anywhere else even if the university wanted to, because it was the condition of the donation.
- fleitz 16y agoYes, but now you have a qualified lead for your endowment fund and also, if you raise money for the coach that frees up an equal amount in your budget for doing whatever the heck you want with. You can't give money exclusively FOR something. This is similar to how when the US requested troops for Iraq from Canada we sent troops to Afghanistan. We couldn't go to Iraq but a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan frees up a US solider to go to Iraq.