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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2087171, member: 27"]
Arnold thinks athletics are a financial burden on the university.  He is, at best uninformed and should not be making public comments on things he does not understand.

In the end, the university is going to fund only a small portion of the total cost of the renovation.  We aren't talking about $205 million dollars.  We are probably talking about 20 or 25.  Most of the cost will be covered by government grants, private business investment and donations.  You can argue that the money donated to this project would have otherwise been donated to academics and maybe that is true to some extent.

But this investment is required to remove the giant risk SU takes each year they continue to try and make do with what we have today.  Our good luck will not go on forever.  There is a reason this is the last of the air supported domes in operation in the US.  Protecting the guaranteed income stream we get from participating in ACC athletics has to be a priority.  Whatever money SU puts into the renovation will be recovered by income generated by athletics very quickly.

This should be a no brainer.
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