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The cut, he said, gives the university a “fighting chance” to “future proof” Stanford’s financial model for athletics.

You know what could future proof Stanford Athletics' finances?  Not handing out generous compensation increases to a bloated administrative staff and favoring that over the 11 sports.  In the university budget book, previously-negotiated compensation increases is the primary reason given by the athletics department for budget pressure.

Ding ding. Also, adjusting budgets to actual revenue not bloated unreliable projections of TV contract revenue with a shrinking footprint. Growth in the department should have stopped 3 years ago when P12N revenues started to significantly diverge from projections.

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The cut, he said, gives the university a “fighting chance” to “future proof” Stanford’s financial model for athletics.

You know what could future proof Stanford Athletics' finances?  Not handing out generous compensation increases to a bloated administrative staff and favoring that over the 11 sports.  In the university budget book, previously-negotiated compensation increases is the primary reason given by the athletics department for budget pressure.

Ding ding. Also, adjusting budgets to actual revenue not bloated unreliable projections of TV contract revenue with a shrinking footprint. Growth in the department should have stopped 3 years ago when P12N revenues started to significantly diverge from projections.