I've heard the same thing, Dude, and we live nowhere near one another, thus making it highly unlikely that it's the same source.

I also think that administrators and AD's tend to make "alumni giving" = "promoted by nationally competitive men's athletics program" without considering that not ALL alumni giving which is "uncategorized" is actually related to athletics.

That's what I meant about that particular line item. It's very easy to conflate the two things, but unless you choose to compare, for example... alumni giving at Stanford and UChi, you're not comparing apples to apples there.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.