To gain an edge, in the past five years Fairfield poured $100 million into facility upgrades and expansions.
"The football costs are exorbitant -- coaching salaries, facility upgrades, higher tuition for scholarship players.
McLaughlin said there already has been a significant increase in donations, which paid for the team's new locker room and other facility upgrades.
"Greenwich has grappled with this issue for years," Mr. Pryor said, "undertaking, for example, efforts regarding magnet schools and facility upgrades, with limited effect to date".
During testimony in a 2011 trial, a former hospital official claimed he had difficulties getting HCA to pay for what he and others described as critical equipment and facility upgrades.
In Europe, the primary source for facility upgrades and new equipment the type of resources likely to attract top-notch scientists—is government money.
Planning for future facility upgrades by buying extra land now is a small additional cost relative to the cost of moving IT applications in the future.
This week, the head of the Department of Energy spelled out some of the potential effects of sequestration: furloughs for 2000 Fermilab employees, the cancellation of research grant programs, and delays in major research facility upgrades.
"The increased ticket revenue from away fans would help pay for policing, and the Football League central distribution increases this summer, which would go some way to paying for the facility upgrades too.
The energy we will save through facility upgrades, power management strategies and IT efficiency solutions by the end of 2009–and annually after that could power more than 4,000 average American homes for a year.
