(07-06-2017 06:44 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  One thing Im noticing is that some schools apparently count capital spending in their annual budgets and some do not. That potentially creates some massive problems when comparing budgets. Just as an example (and because Im very familiar with the situation), Houston currently has roughly 80 million in capital athletics projects underway (basketball arena renovation and new IPF). Of that amount, about 50 million of it is funded by private donations. If these expenditures were included, Houston's numbers would reflect a budget of over 100 million and it would probably sit at the top of your list of budgets minus student fees and transfers. Not only that, but the total capital expenditures for UH since 2013 add up to over a quarter of a billion--the majority of which is derived from private donations. So this category would have affected almost every years budget at UH since 2013.

Im not saying we dont have some pretty ugly institutional support numbers---but it is worth noting that when comparing budget numbers, there are alot of moving parts that can vastly affect the picture these numbers paint.

So you are saying that Colorado St building their new 200 million or whatever football stadium could somehow count that as revenue? That would be highly dishonest. (I'm not saying they are doing that) Schools constantly build new facilities, venues etc. A school on the Kentucky/Ohio border just built a fabulous new basketball arena that Cincinnati will play in this year. I don't think anyone counts that venue investment as revenue, until they start making revenue on it by selling tics, parking, concessions etc