This is ancient news on the internet time scale, but yeah, I'm not pleased about it.
Just because Phogistan has been venting their 
paranoia about the Kansas Regents involvement doesn't make what I posted about a very recent amendment to KBOR board procedure ancient news.
Only extreme derps believe that the regents are just going to allow schools to change athletic conferences without their consent.
KU now needs the approval of Karl frickin' Ice and a Baylor grad in order to get permission to negotiate with another conference. That blows.
I will admit, that since Girod has referenced about 18 different funding sources in order to get that stadium reno done, including ARPA funds, sponging off the City of Lawrence and trying to wrap this whole thing up into a local economic development package. You guys probably do need to get to a conference that offers a larger teat to suckle off of . . .
It's got to be kind of embarrassing watching K-State fund $350 million in facilities projects entirely in-house at this point. 
low capital improvements expenditure IQ guy over here but when i was a kid on Easter Sunday if I just absolutely dominated my little brother and found all but a couple of the eggs my mom would always make me give some of those eggs to him, in some cases they would even re-hide the eggs and he would get his own private Easter egg hunt out of pity. Are there any such mechanisms in place for the universities in the state of Kansas?
Disclaimer: I am fully TSC when it comes to the actual athletic participation itself
That said, on one hand you have K-State. K-State athletics receives no direct institutional support. On the other hand, KU athletics is still getting over a million dollars a year from Strong Hall aka Direct Institutional Support.
K-State athletics funds and finances its facilities improvements entirely in house and pays for any debt service out of its own budget.
KU athletics enters into shady 50 year lease deals with local developers and now apparently is going to try to wrap a boutique level "economic impact" project paid for in whole or in part with taxpayer largess in order to get a football stadium renovation. They're going to toss in a medical clinic for patrons of a densely populated urban center that has multiple other medical facilities within close proximity . . . a good PR cover here, I'll give them credit for that.
Meanwhile K-State is going to use American Recovery funds to build academic and research facilities which will serve the whole of Kansas, Kansas' largest and most important industry and in turn the whole of humanity.
K-State - for Kansas, for the world and for all of mankind.
KU . . . for themselves
