I can’t believe I actually thought this and the words even look weird on the screen, but I happen to believe WVU’s athletic department needs some money. Believe it or not, it doesn’t necessarily get the money from the P-Rod settlement. 

Michigan’s $2.5 million portion of the buyout, paid July 31, was placed temporarily into WVU’s general fund. Where it — and Rodriguez’s three future payments of $500,000 each — will end up is still an unanswered question.

WVU spokesperson Becky Lofstedt said in an e-mail Tuesday that the $2.5 million remains in a general university account and is “likely to be targeted for a specific project at some future time.”

It seems the decision belongs with interim President C. Peter Mcgrath or the WVU Board of Governors.

Where the buyout bucks belong is with the WVU athletic department. There are more than a few good reasons for that besides the fact that it was primarily an athletics issue: