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[QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 1608037, member: 3609"]
The state schools of the ACC do not get money from the state to support athletics.  That said, if the PE classes "need" a new pool that meets the specs of the swim & dive team, there is some state and federal money available to go toward that, but not the whole bill.  "State money" does come from student activity fees collected by the Bursar at registration to the athletic departments.  UVa is supposed to have one of the highest ones, but the students do get free admission to all regular season athletic events as part of it.  All scholarship money must come from fund raising; none, zero, zip, nada money comes from the financial aid office for athletes' scholarships or stipends whenever they are instituted.  All money to pay for coaches' buyouts must come from fund raising, no government money can be involved.  Just about all of the coaches have a state budget line item that pays a part of their salary.  For football and men's bball it's like $100K of their salary.  Others get less from the state.

UVa basically operates as a private school since we only get 7% of our budget from the state.   All of the endowment and 93% of the operating budget come from other sources.  We threatened to go private back in the 90s.  Plans were put together that something like 3 schools would be run for Va like you run Envi Sci for SUNY, but the undergraduate and graduate Arts & Sciences, business, and Engineering Schools would be private.  The Legislature was not amused.  The President of William & Mary has started making noises about taking them private again.  The President of UVa hasn't said anything, but she really doesn't have to because everyone knows we'd dust off those plans from the 90s and implement them in a heartbeat.
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