IDK, it's your field 😉, but I would guess they can finagle a lot of leeway as long as is isn't real or tangible property that's involved. The other thing is that with MSU and UM at least, the boards of regents are constitutionally pretty strong. Not sure who could stop them. I mean the state gov has leverage in terms of threatening to withhold funds, but they can't do much else to immediately order them not to do something.