What do expenses have to do with using
PUBLIC FUNDS to fund a school's athletic program??? If their expenses are that high, they need to find ways to cut their athletic budget. My point is, schools are there to educate people, not to fund some athletic programs and the NCAA seems to be more concerned about schools that spend less on athletics than those that rob their academic programs to maintain some athletic program.
By the way, SU subsidies are less than most Southland schools except two, UNO and NIcholls State. UNO doesn't have a football program and Nicholls State has probably the smallest school budget of all schools in Louisiana, which is why they attacked Grambling when the state was about to cut the budget for higher education. Like I previously stated, I hate that the athletic program has to go through this, but as long as SU's academic programs continue to shine while other Louisiana schools are trying to manage through what SU has already experienced. Subsidies for Northwestern State, Southeastern, and McNeese State were higher than SU's subsidies. Also, only two Southland schools (McNeese State and UNO) had a lower percent subsidy than SU. IMO, LSU should have forced ULM, McNeese,State, Nicholls State, and UNO to stay in the LSU System. Now Louisiana has a bunch of small independent schools in the UL System wanting more money.