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[QUOTE="wgdsr, post: 5126508, member: 7179"]
good question, and the boring answer is hoo knows?  calls for even more speculation than what we're all doing already.  there are so many factors (and they are mostly qualitative and subjective on participants) and under a shifting landscape, that 100% won't stop shifting.

but ok, assume a couple things... this is the construct, gets approved as is (for awhile).  take osu and mich:
- you can say they don't care "as much" as cuse about lax, but they've sponsored the sport when many p5s don't.
- flip side their investment: umich was only started after 8 figures was raised to endow.  osu new facility only done after money raised (>$20 mill).  these are 2 of the richest 5 schools in the country, and they made them pay the department for a lot of it.
- next, both schools although swimming in cash, are about to get about a $30-40m pay raise minimum with their new media and cfp deals.  they still need places to spend money.  the cap?  that's a % of an average of p5 schools revenue, and each of theirs is 2+× that.  maybe 3x.

so go back to foy's article, which is very good.  endowing scholarships.  i don't want to go down the rabbit hole of athletic department accounting, which is it's own animal and not seen anywhere else, but largely this is how ath dept's operate. the main question may be whether there is a whale (or multiple baby whales) that can make it happen.  these schools aren't gonna rule this out because $20 million is a pimple.  they have their cash coming in in perpetuity, and they know it.  48 no way (imo), but decent bump very possible.  as it is, they sponsor a lot of sports because they like to, they can, and branding.

notre dame not as similar.  they are much tighter with their cash.  for lax at least.
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