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Message: [QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 2931875, member: 3609"] Para 1 - The argument is really over having state [I]tax[/I] money going toward athletics. I can tell you in VA the only tax money that went to support athletics that I have been able to determine was that the state built VMI's indoor practice facility because it was declared the "Corps Physical Training Facility". (My in-laws live in Lexington and couldn't understand why it was so big. They were flabbergasted when I explained to them what it really was.) Student activity fees are collected in addition to tuition. It is not "one pot", and I imagine that's because there are 1 District and 50 state laws that mandate that it not be "one pot". A large portion of it at UVa goes toward the athletic department. In "exchange" for that, all students are admitted free to all home regular season games in all sports. (For basketball crowd control, they have to have a ticket as well as their ID card, but the ticket is free despite the "hoops" they have to jump through to get them; I think there's some sort of lottery now.) Supposedly, the amount from student fees at UVa is one of the largest in college sports. That fee covers other things as well, like club sports and other interest clubs, like it does at any other school that has one. State funding - Student Activity Fees do not pay for the academic side of any state school anywhere. They are separate on your bill from tuition. UVa receives only 7% of its budget as a line item from the state's budget passed by the legislature. I think it goes toward stuff like the state's portion of the professors' salaries (which is next to nothing compared to what some of them are paid, especially the MDs). It's like Nick Saban. He gets something like $100K as a line item in the Bama budget funded by state tax money but he is paid $7MM, with the rest coming from the boosters. The other 93% of UVa's budget comes from donations, the endowment (which is just about the largest for a school outside Texas; UT and aTm receive state oil extraction taxes as part of their endowments), research income, etc. VPI is down to about 65% of its budget; it was much, much higher before the 2009 economic recession. Some years ago at one of my reunions, the then-president said that if Medicaid money to the hospitals was included in the totals, Wake Forest (which was a religious school at that time) received more money from the state of NC than UVa received from the state of VA. This is a big, big bone of contention for a lot of alums. It is one of the arguments we (notice I said "we") make toward having the same relationship with VA that Cornell has with NY. Para 2 - They are raising at least some capital. Admission fees, media rights money, and donations to the booster club are the biggest components to their annual income. [/QUOTE]

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