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Originally Posted by DeezNutz
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The legal expenses and all settlement punishments are a one-time expense. You're talking about changes that are going to lead to expenses that exist in perpetuity. $18M is a very big deal when it turns into $180M over ten years. Plus, you have the figure wrong. The football program makes about $50-70M a year in profit. And that doesn't even factor in the millions of dollars within their costs that are invested back into university-building activities.
And that $18M doesn't factor in the money raised because of alumni donors who feel pride in their football program. Joe Pa alone, it was reported, raised about $100-150M a year for football. It doesn't factor in the $11M extra cost to fund the athletic department that has over 1,000 student athletes, many of which rely on scholarships to get their education.
You are talking about an expense that over time is going to amount to billions of dollars in perpetuity.