This from the Cincy Enquirer:

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20131206/SPT0103/312060087/Miami-build-13M-football-practice-building

Everyone's doing it so why shouldn't they?  I guess now nobody will have an advantage since everyone is gonna have one.

Oh well...it's just $13million here and $13 million there!

oops, should have been on football not recruiting...

It says Miami is spending $80million on athletics, overall, so the $13m IPF is just a start. Like the Ohio IPF, which was a little cheaper at $11m, the Miami IPF will be used by other sports, too, and for intermurals.

Also, even high schools have IPFs these days.

I saw that, too. I certainly hope it was a joke. If it was, it wasn't in very good taste.

A quick Google search shows that Massillon Schools was in a financial crisis the past year and cut 3 or 4 million from their budget and it appears music was trimmed a bit. So the comment is only partially true.

And even if it was given by a private donor....what a waste of money.

In fairness to Paul, unless the donor also provided a fund to pay for perpetual operating expenses, he still saddled the school system with some significant extra expenses. That said I have no particular opinion on whether the school should have accepted the gift of declined it, nor enough knowledge about that school system to have any clue whether the reduction in music budget was related to this IPF.

I do know that educators often, as a ploy to get more money, make cuts first to things like Arts, Music, and gifted programs, even though there isn't that much money to be saved there precisely because they know the cuts will be noticed by the affluent parents.

With the exception that a University has a lot bigger budget than a High School, and presumably a lot more uses for a building of that size.