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Like others have said the current contribution from the university is capped and will not increase. It's important to remember that football hasn't generated ANY revenue for more than 2 years now. Those of us that are paying the freight for football operations currently made 5 year commitments so there will be significant overlap between those commitments and football generating significant revenue. I feel safe in saying that the next 2 academic years will be by far the biggest revenue years football has ever seen.

The take home for the east end of campus from the last 2+ years is that when you bite a porcupine you get a mouthful of quills. The Campaign for UAB actually started contracting as people cancelled their gifts. They can either be the beneficiary of all the good will that football has generated (not to mention cash) or they can be seen as the ones trying to undercut it. If I'm a researcher I'm doing everything I can to make sure the west side is successful because it just makes good business sense.