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Doesn’t the football stuff fund itself through tickets, licensing, etc? It seems hard to believe research overhead grants are going to the football coach.
by fnordpiglet 2y ago
Doesn’t the football stuff fund itself through tickets, licensing, etc? It seems hard to believe research overhead grants are going to the football coach.
- fooker 2y agoMoney is fungible.
- bilbo0s 2y agoAnd? The one thing has nothing to do with the other. Football funds itself. That's why the coach makes so much money. If research funded itself, researchers would make a lot of money.
- costigan 2y agoOnly if the organization with the money wants to do that. Flip it around. Do you think the sports program at any major university pays for physics research facilities (or any topic outside of sports medicine)?
- fooker 2y ago>Only if the organization with the money wants to do that. Great, this should be a enough of an argument then for the federal government to decide how grant money is used.
- costigan 2y agoIt does. That's what the negotiation on overhead rates is for.
- ModernMech 2y agoA lot of this discussion is people who don’t understand the system reinventing it from first principles as they slowly come to terms with the nuance.
- fnordpiglet 2y agoNot when double entry accounting is involved.
- o11c 2y agoI've heard that said. But my university tuition had an explicit 10% charge to subsidize upgrades for the football program, so ... It's very easy to lie in budgets by only counting a subset of expenses.