In Derek Bok's book, he talks alot about what students learn while they're at college.  As he says numerous times, they often learn as many lessons from observing the way the university's administration behaves as they do from their textbooks.  How can a university ask a student not to sell their class notes and old exams and papers to other students, when the university sets up a slipshod Phd program on the Internet and peddles it nationwide?  How can the athletic department ask its athletes not to accept in-kind gifts and cash from boosters when the university sells its soul to the GodwinGroup and Pileum Corporation, and the never-ending quest for big-dollar contracts and grants for work of trivial academic importance (paint).

20 years from now, someone who was a student at USM during this period (like Walt Cain) is going to nominated to the IHL Board by a future governor.  He's going to want to promote practices like the ones he observed in his more formative, earlier years.  The State of Mississippi is going to have reaped what it had sown 2 decades prior.