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Message: [QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 3633607, member: 3609"] Sports at state schools are not "government-run entities". Just about every state has a law which forbids using state tax money for athletics. Every athletic department, regardless of whether it's at a state school or private school, is run on an "equal basis", that is, it has to find funds from non-government sources every year to operate. Obviously there are different levels of success in finding those funds. About the only state funds that go to athletic departments is a small component of coaches' salaries so the president can fire the coach for cause. For Nick Saban, it's $100K of the several million he's paid. I imagine Gus Malzahn at Auburn has a similar Alabama state budget line item component of his salary as well. [/QUOTE]