We wouldn't need to finance anything... last season USF brought in $600 million in donations, which adds to the billion or so they have in the bank.
We have the $$. Those donations were for a variety of areas. Don't you think that if we had $200 - $300 million available to us for a stadium, we wouldn't jump on it? If we didn't have to finance any of it, then yes, you're correct, it would be better than what we currently have.Well we can borrow the money from ourselves... USF has done this before. I know they have and was told that they do it from time to time on special projects, as long as they can pay it back. They borrow the funds from themselves to pay for a capital project and then repay it over X amount of fiscal years.That X in your equation is about 50 years, at best. Not happening.We collected $600 million in one year... we can do it again, especially with sponsorships and such.The Unstoppable Campaign you're referring to started when you were in elementary school. So it was $600+ million in 8 years. You just missed on the facts for that one.
The campaign, publicly launched in October of 2009... So that's 4 years.
Read up on it..
Apparently they had a first "quiet" phase beginning in 2005..
However they didn't kick off the big public push until 2009. That's when the big money started pouring in, $111 million in 2010-11 alone.
So, 8 years.