The athletic depts will never do it, it would have to come from state govt's.

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Mar 29, 2017
9:27:19am

cougarmeister All-American

The athletic depts will never do it, it would have to come from state govt's.

No administrator would ever say "My budget is too big, please give me less money."

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BYUMizzou Former User

3/29/17 8:32am

That's an insane amount of debt....

KGKUGR

3/29/17 8:40am

There will be a bail out because Alabama is too big to fail

BYU Homer

3/29/17 8:43am

It appears to be mostly stadium financing debt. There's a cost to everything.

3/29/17 1:59pm

And the students, and then when they default, the rest of us pick up the bill

kotacoug

3/29/17 8:46am

There is a big debt problem in this country/world. Everything that is nice and

sgriff

3/29/17 9:04am

There are two levels of debt. CAL, Illinois and others are the worst kind

Nat Gas Man

3/29/17 9:07am

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BYUMizzou

3/29/17 9:19am

My first commercial landlord was a bit of a mentor to me. He once told me that

deljdc

3/29/17 10:36am

Alabama also has $180M as a reserve fund right now. If they have that much debt

BamaCoug

3/29/17 4:02pm

UCONN is only that high because of massive subsidies. Massive. Take them away and they have

3/29/17 9:10am

I wish the P5 would pass a resolution outlawing subsidies, I know the B10

Nat Gas Man

3/29/17 9:12am

The athletic depts will never do it, it would have to come from state govt's.

3/29/17 9:27am

I think you are 100% Correct.

LEDSFW

3/29/17 9:33am

I've got 200 million in credit default swaps on the Big12's debt obligations.

Brutus216

3/29/17 12:09pm

Nicely done. Wish they had multiple laughy face options.

jkccoug

3/29/17 12:19pm

Ive got a trillion dollhairs universal life investment that <6% get this joke

NotOfYourFaithBYUFAN

3/29/17 10:57pm

I am less worried about insolvency than irrelevancy

teancum

3/29/17 12:09pm

Texas has been flirting with both.

3/29/17 1:34pm

One other big factor in BYU's favor is that they have been very actively working

ManicBlue

3/29/17 12:40pm

What's the projected timeframe for them to finish?

BYUSwoop

3/30/17 12:36am

Not sure, it's a long term goal. There are approx. 255 athletic scholarships and

ManicBlue

3/30/17 1:15am

Don't worry all those schools have taxpayers willing to subsidize them further

Big Wally D

3/29/17 12:46pm

Great observations and great post. The more I learn about finance in CFB

3/29/17 12:54pm

I just read about the U of Utah's stadium expansion likely plans. Will Zions Bank finance that one?

3/29/17 2:00pm

I wonder where we would be if BYU was willing to go into debt like other schools

Hill4Heisman

3/29/17 7:02pm

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