re: How does a university that offers business degrees allow athletics to over spend by $177M?

The statement was qualified with the word “potentially”. People forget that Saban averaged over 3 losses per year while he was here.

That Tennessee fan is obviously still butthurt after like 16 years.

It isn’t the best school. Don’t think you learn much so it makes sense

Subsidized by the gubment. The LA way

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Universities should be required to be fiscally sound if they offer any type of business, management, or finance degrees. Unfortunately LSU isn’t alone.

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It is not sustainable. It is all going to crash spectacularly someday and sooner than most people think. First and foremost no university exists to support a football program. They are ran by people who's lives are spent in academia...many of who do not like athletics to begin with. The money at ANY university is in grants and academics drives that....and even at east central state university that money dwarfs the money driven by the most successful athletic department. The money driven by the AD is nice for branding and for support from the state and local governments but the serious money is in the labs and libraries....when the AD either costs the labs and libraries or embarrasses them the actual power at any university will stop the madness.


This is not a matter of if but merely one of when. The AD and the University neither one has "control" of who the players wearing their brand are doing business with. Sports gambling is RAMPANT in the US. I am all for gambling if an adult wants to gamble. That said I am not a degenerate gambler. They exist. It is only a matter of time before there is a scandal in CFB on this front that makes the NBA look like a group of choir boys. There is simply too much money involved and NO one is minding the store. Officials aren't even professionals. Ponder that for a momentum and imagine what a couple of holding calls or PI calls can do to turn a game. Imagine what a QB can do during a game without being overly obvious...hell OUs QB did it at least twice against UGA last week. That was pure ineptitude but it certainly ensured UGA covered...and it was and rightfully so viewed as ineptitude....this is going to happen. Probably is happening on some scale but it is going to happen and be a massive scandal and it is idiotic to think that a entity whose real money is driven by academics is going to stand by and have that brand tarnished in that manner and to that degree. It is only a matter of time. Billionaire donors aren't all donating to ensure their alma mater has a competitive football team....many are doing it to also have access. Eventually that is going to become a scandal. It is inevitable.