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Ravi Bellamkonda, tOSU President

We'll see. The devil will be in the details. Does this mean that they'll fund all sports at a level to be competitive: bring our dead last in the B1G hockey budget at least to the league median, build the women's arena and so on.

Or does it mean that they'll half ass sports that they secretly want to axe and then say they had no choice because they weren't competitive.

 
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We'll see. The devil will be in the details. Does this mean that they'll fund all sports at a level to be competitive: bring our dead last in the B1G hockey budget at least to the league median, build the women's arena and so on.

Or does it mean that they'll half ass sports that they secretly want to axe and then say they had no choice because they weren't competitive.

Hopefully the latter.

This model is not sustainable with 36 varsity sports.
 
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Certainly not sustainable on a 'top-flight' 36 varsity sports, AND have A-1 playing fields/courts/pitches/ etc to put them on. I'm used to big numbers, and tOSU's numbers are among the highest, but do worry about the debt being accumulated by the Athletic Department. Cost of Construction is hugemongous, and the debt incurred is also huge. But the facility competition is very keen, and unless you've got a golden goose like Oregon, hard to sustain. Hope the AD is using some of this almost $100million to reduce debt. Pay down construction debt and lower interest payments. Anybody out there do that with household funds? Anyway, glad am not the ones having to figure out where this goes. Also assumes that the academic side of the Buckeye house is keeping distant from all the loot in the AD department.
 
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