re: Name a SEC team afraid to play a Sunbelt team

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Alabama public schools are all state funded, obviously. So why have one state school (Alabama) pay another state school (Troy) money?

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So Alabama's athletic department is state funded? At LSU, the athletic department is successful enough to regularly writes checks back to the university. Also, the money LSU uses to fund its athletics (i.e. football) is self-generated, and does not come from state funds that are allocated for academics.

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Troy could go to Georgia or Florida and get the same amount of money to play them, but it wouldn't be costing the state of Alabama.

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LSU takes a different approach because it chooses to spread the wealth its athletic department takes in among in-state schoos. Tulane, ULL, ULM and La. Tech all rotate onto LSU's schedule on a yearly basis, and if one of them wants to schedule another FBS team, and make even more money, then they're welcome to it.

Bottom line -- LSU isn't afraid to schedule in-state schools. The result is its fans don't have to make up shitty excuses and pretend they don't schedule in-state schools because of "money".

I don't think state funds go to any AD in Alabama(the state).

"Subsidized" AD's mean from student fees.