Academically USM is toward the very bottom of the 4th tier and yet it wants to fritter away funds like this (from today's HA)?

"Southern Miss wants approval to add a 1 percent tax to hotel bills and restaurant tabs for improvements to Reed Green Coliseum, M.M. Roberts Stadium, the baseball, softball and track and soccer complexes and for construction of an Olympic sports complex and a tennis facility.

Southern Miss wants approval to add a 1 percent tax to hotel bills and restaurant tabs for improvements to Reed Green Coliseum, M.M. Roberts Stadium, the baseball, softball and track and soccer complexes and for construction of an Olympic sports complex and a tennis facility."