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> university leadership that's choosing to make large capital expenditures

SUNY Binghamton recently received a private donation of $60 million, with a rule from the person donating it had to be spent on a new baseball stadium. Do you think the university leadership should have declined the offer?

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If it costs more than $60 million to build the stadium, sure.

What good is a $60 million donation if it costs you $100 million on something you weren't going to buy in the first place?

Because now you have a $100M stadium that you only paid $40M for. That stadium generates revenue. You just need to make sure the numbers work

This is lower tier D1 baseball in the Northeast, so revenue is going to be minimal.

> You just need to make sure the numbers work

The entire point of this thread is that universities aren't doing that, because they're accepting $100 million donations with quarter-billion dollar lifetime price tags tied with them.

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