I'd like to see spending numbers from 20 or 30 years ago. My sense is it is about proportionally the same. The issue isn't so much the percent as it is the timing of the percent.
I'm not following. Are you meaning Florida and Bammer revenues are the same? Timing of what percent. I just don't have the desire to dive THAT deep into the numbers.
We have increased revenue obviously, thanks to the ESPN money, but we've been sending money to the university for who knows what forever. It isn't a recent thing.
2009:
TAMPA - When the University of Florida needs cash, there's one place it can always turn: its athletic department. As part of the university's efforts to put together a worst-case plan reflecting as much as a 10 percent budget cut, the University Athletic Association was asked for a $6 million donation to help make ends meet, University of Florida President Bernie Machen said. It's not the first time the athletic department has helped fund academics. Since 1990, the athletic association has made annual contributions to the university totaling in excess of $48 million - including more than $9.5 million two years ago. Some of that money has gone to UF's general fund, dispersed for myriad programs. Some has gone to the library,
Sports generate millions of dollars for UF
The numbers have only increased since then. One year I think we sent 30 million to general fund. Keep in mind the university itself operates on close to 2 BILLION a year, with the vast majority being grants and contracts, not tuition. 20-30 million from the UAA doesn't affect our ability to function as a university, at all.
All while the endowment sits on 2 BILLION which they won't touch ever.