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

Sign up, and you'll be able to customize your font size and more! Sign up

Report problem with this ad

Mar 29, 2017
9:12:19am

Nat Gas Man All-American

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

has talked openly about it.

Report problem with this ad

Nat Gas Man

Previous username: TXSmith
Bio page: Nat Gas Man
Joined: Apr 28, 2010
Last login: Aug 23, 2023
Total posts: 53,749 (638 FO)

Report problem with this ad

Messages

Author

Time

<< Deleted >>

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

<< Deleted >>

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

Report problem with this ad

Posting on CougarBoard

In order to post, you will need to either sign up or log in.

Report problem with this ad