Nobody used the word "fraud", it is simply a shell game of where the money actually comes from as far as which accounts, move the deficit to where you want so as to make another area look just a little bit better.
I'd have to agree. Otherwise it's entirely too ironic that the University at Buffalo had revenues that matched expenses to the dollar in both basketball and football of both genders..
Exactly, and these schools and departments get audited so there is no legal funny business going on, just a non-truth into actual expenditures. An example of this is this coming year to save money the football team is not paying for the athletes to stay in hotels on the night before home games. Now that doesn't mean that Athletics isn't paying for this, only that they shifted that "burden" out of football and into some other account. So there, in a quick stroke football just cut $25-$30K out of it's budget, that still does not mean that Athletics as a whole cut that same $25-$30K. This was stated by the Department itself in a spring Post article.