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[QUOTE="OrangeTarheel, post: 5716367, member: 887"]
I’ve thought about this as well - as long as the fundraising isn’t interfering with the schools ability to grow its endowment and servicing academics I see no problem riding this sports money train as long as possible.  There’s such an amazing divide between the wealthy and the rest of us in this country that it shouldn’t take many donors to make things work.

On the other hand, my level of frustration with the current state of college athletics has grown to the point where I’m starting to wonder whether we do something completely different - including getting into a lesser league with more regional ties.  Hearing that money is the reason our team isn’t competitive or we can’t hire a great coach is not something I want to hear again.  And we will hear it until there’s a salary cap or something of that nature - and even that won’t stop bad actor schools from getting a bag in the hands of top athletes.  Who’s going to stop them?  The NCAA?  (pauses for laughter)

I do understand the argument saying we would be well served by a national marketing strategy for our sports branding.  We seem well positioned to be an even more powerful college sports brand … but how does that play when we can only afford a mediocre product on the court?  Ugh this stuff makes my head hurt.
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