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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 2457839, member: 2531"] I get that, but it's only technically true. It's like saying every vote in America counts the same for presidential elections. Technically? Sure. In reality? No. Votes in FL and OH are more important than those in NY, CA, TX, etc. The same goes for endowments. Yes, the money is technically confined, but it isn't in reality at any major university (or pretty much any other large organization for that matter), except for the caveats that I listed. Endowment money *can* absolutely fund athletics to a significant degree simply by playing with the unrestrained portions of it to directly impact money transfers from the academic side to the athletic side (taxes and subsidies), which directly affects AD budgets and available funds for coaching salaries. The only ways to avoid that relationship is to either somehow make money not fungible, or to completely remove all unrestrained funds (which would be both hard, and a terrible idea). [/QUOTE]