[82lsju]

Here is a solution:  Yang endows Stanford football with a billion dollars, and Rice becomes our next AD.  The football endowment generates more than enough to offset lower TV revenues, and since we are no longer dependent on TV revenues, we can schedule games at reasonable times and build the college experience on campus.  We give football recruits the best educations and also the best of everything else in the nation.  Eventually, we win enough to embarrass FOX and ESPN and the conferences they own.  Then we decide for ourselves whether to remain independent or to become the premiere program in a conference that previously spurned us.


One can dream.

$1b would be ~40% of his net worth, but for only $500m he could more than endow the football team expenses given most (maybe all) of the football scholarships and many of the coaching positions (especially the more expensive ones) are already endowed

[82lsju]

Here is a solution:  Yang endows Stanford football with a billion dollars, and Rice becomes our next AD.  The football endowment generates more than enough to offset lower TV revenues, and since we are no longer dependent on TV revenues, we can schedule games at reasonable times and build the college experience on campus.  We give football recruits the best educations and also the best of everything else in the nation.  Eventually, we win enough to embarrass FOX and ESPN and the conferences they own.  Then we decide for ourselves whether to remain independent or to become the premiere program in a conference that previously spurned us.


One can dream.

$1b would be ~40% of his net worth, but for only $500m he could more than endow the football team expenses given most (maybe all) of the football scholarships and many of the coaching positions (especially the more expensive ones) are already endowed