Budget discussion* meeting back in September

"How much do we have to find in the budget?"

"$260 thousand."

"We are not going to do what we did in the early '90s, that hurt everyone.  It took a long time to recover."

"hmmmm - Let's look at our expenses, the annual swimming budget is $212 thousand per year.  That gets us real close without inflicting pain on other teams."

and

teams are roughly the same size = good - avoid legal Title IX issues

"But what do we tell the kids?"

"We tell them the pool is not up to Ivy Standards.  Oh, by the way, they're not really very good anyways."

"OK, done - have a good lunch."

*hypothetical