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[QUOTE="Ottoble, post: 798917, member: 2539"]
Thanks guys, good info. I didn't realize that was how it was set up then but I do recall (being a somewhat more recent grad) some lecture halls being a result of certain bowl wins etc. including I believe the large lecture hall in engineering. I do have to say, based on the history of improvement in how well respected and academically ranked SU was from the 80's up until the early 2000's, if the unusual accounting helped the improvement there may be something to be said for it. However it appears that system went too far ending up giving us lean years where the university may have gotten nothing from or had to pay into the athletics program due to the football program floundering. I don't know the details but perhaps if the percentage required to give to academics had been lower originally a more consistent slower improvement could have been made to athletics, improving athletic revenue by winning more and providing eventually the same dollar amount to  academic improvements over the long haul while avoiding the athletic facilities tipping point. (10pts for using a buzzword outside my professional area)
 
I believe that almost every school athletics program "donates" the remainder of its profit to their university at year end and the university keeps an account of those donations for possible future investments in athletics, are we still on a set percentage that SUATH needs to meet or have those days gone by the wayside in favor of a net profit approach?
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