The University of South Carolina boasts one of the most successful women’s basketball programs in the nation – having advanced to the Final Four in seven of the past eleven seasons (winning three national championships along the way). Here’s the inescapable math of women’s basketball at the University of South Carolina: a government entity is awarding Staley a mid-seven figure salary each year – with bonuses and benefits – even though the market has determined for years that the product she is producing isn’t worth the cost. FITSNews has argued for years that higher education – or, increasingly, higher “indoctrination” – is not a core function of government and that colleges and universities should be set free to pursue their own destinies in the private sector.