Academic Revenue Versus AD Revenue

Some quick research indicates that the University of Florida, as a generic state university which is also athletically successful and the AD is the public face of the university, the same way it is at almost all state universities, drives about $17 billion in revenue in the state from all sources. About $200 million of that is driven by the AD. That is about 1.2% of the revenue driven by the University of Florida. Again, using Florida as representative of a generic state university with a successful AD. At some point in time 1.2% of the source of revenue at a publicly controlled institution making decisions that negatively impacts the public image of the other 98.8% of the institution is going to be reigned in harshly. When you consider that these are institutes of higher learning and mainly ran and managed by people who may not find athletics overly pretty and may actually despise the idea of athletic competition it is not hard to conclude that they will eventually reign in the AD. I know the money is completely independent BUT the image is tied at the hip and damaging that hip by paying a coach a bunch of money to go away is a terrible look publicly.