The UO AD takes less from the General Fund, for sure, than the OS equivalent. But part of playing sports is abiding by regulations, so if you want football you need to have women's sports. Sure, ADs across the country would love to claim the revenue sports and dump everything else on the General Fund, but academic departments would love to claim tuition and not have to pay faculty but I don't see that happening either!

UO has it about as good as it gets. But it makes me wonder, if this is as good as it gets.. just taking a few million each year and needing massive tax-exempt donations, is this really a good system? Every school could benefit from sports if they had the guts to cap spending, salaries included. But right now they can't pay players, so they seek tiny advantages by outspending on very minor flash--the exotic wood locker rooms, the players only mini-golf courses, etc. People were fans when players had stinky locker rooms and coaches made $200,000 a year. Why not now?