semi-OT: in that it's about the Holy Grail of so many Athletics Departments, and the pursuit of said Grail has a direct impact on other sports. And students.

From today's NYTimes: The Rutgers Mess.

Rutgers, the biggest and most important public university in New Jersey, has spent millions of dollars furthering its ambition to become a major football power that might otherwise have been devoted to academics. It has done so during a period of rising tuition and budgetary cutbacks in academic departments, and, worse, without any real oversight from the university’s president, Richard McCormick, and its Board of Governors.
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Mr. McCormick, who long cheered on efforts to make Rutgers a football powerhouse, appointed the committee last summer after The Star-Ledger of Newark reported out-of-control spending at the university. A campaign to raise $30 million in private contributions for a $102 million expansion of the football stadium has fallen short of its goals, and the university has neither the cash nor the borrowing capacity to complete the job. To save money, the university has downgraded teams including tennis, swimming and fencing to intramural status.