[leapfrog0202]

Is it just me or does this seem like a horrendous amount of money for UNL to flush down the toilet? If they do a clean sweep, it’s $11 MILLION and if it’s “just” Pelini, $7.65 million.

How do you justify that to people that are paying to send their kids to school there?

[FlJoePa]

I’m sure UNL’s athletic department (unlike most) doesn’t need to funnel cash from student activity fees. This is ticket money, booster money. Not really State or University money.

[blam]

"How do you justify that to people that are paying to send their kids to school there?"

I've read that the Alabama football program pays for all the other sports at the University Of Alabama and still contributes $43 million to the University's 'cash-box.'

[blam]

College Athletics Revenues and Expenses - 2008

[aft_lizard]

How? You tell them the money comes from boosters. The base salary is different then the comp package.