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<blockquote data-quote="Augusta_Jacket" data-source="post: 884859" data-attributes="member: 1191"><p>Ok. Time to take off the tinfoil hat. </p><p></p><p>Sure, college athletics is corrupt, but the big programs don't need their institutions to funnel money to athletics. They generate enough on their own, and have boosters willing to pony up. Let's face it, there are legitimate accusations every year of academic fraud and blatant bribery in regards to recruiting and retaining prime college football and basketball players. It's really not even a secret anymore. Never truly was. On that you are correct.</p><p></p><p>Where you are off base is in assuming that the academic research dollars can and are somehow being funneled to athletics at these football factories. That isn't remotely happening for a number of reasons. First, academic and research donations generally come in as designated gifts, which means they HAVE to be used for the purpose they were donated for. It's the same reason why our Golf team is fully funded. They have donors who give to the team and designate it solely for golf use. No matter how much the football team could use the extra cash, they can't touch it. Second, there are auditors that routinely check up on grants, and there would have been someone, somewhere, who would have cried foul already was this happening somewhere. Finally, researchers and academics are VERY territorial about their funding. They would be screaming bloody murder if schools were embezzling funds from research to give to football. </p><p></p><p>Football boosters and TV deals provide more than enough for the factories to keep themselves in the arms races for recruits. It's the schools light on boosters and/or with less than stellar TV deals that will still struggle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Augusta_Jacket, post: 884859, member: 1191"] Ok. Time to take off the tinfoil hat. Sure, college athletics is corrupt, but the big programs don't need their institutions to funnel money to athletics. They generate enough on their own, and have boosters willing to pony up. Let's face it, there are legitimate accusations every year of academic fraud and blatant bribery in regards to recruiting and retaining prime college football and basketball players. It's really not even a secret anymore. Never truly was. On that you are correct. Where you are off base is in assuming that the academic research dollars can and are somehow being funneled to athletics at these football factories. That isn't remotely happening for a number of reasons. First, academic and research donations generally come in as designated gifts, which means they HAVE to be used for the purpose they were donated for. It's the same reason why our Golf team is fully funded. They have donors who give to the team and designate it solely for golf use. No matter how much the football team could use the extra cash, they can't touch it. Second, there are auditors that routinely check up on grants, and there would have been someone, somewhere, who would have cried foul already was this happening somewhere. Finally, researchers and academics are VERY territorial about their funding. They would be screaming bloody murder if schools were embezzling funds from research to give to football. Football boosters and TV deals provide more than enough for the factories to keep themselves in the arms races for recruits. It's the schools light on boosters and/or with less than stellar TV deals that will still struggle. [/QUOTE]
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