In reply to: His contract is a fifth of their endowment * posted by GoldenBlues
College football is so out of hand that the highest paid public employee in multiple states is a college football coach.
I get that money is fungible so money paid by the state to LSU's operating budget as a whole is less money that needs to be donated. Still, unless LSU is different from every other power 5 public university, then the athletic department does not rely on public financing.