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re: Not the biggest SEC gift ever, but someone just gave $100 million to State
Posted on 4/20/23 at 12:41 pm to CatsGoneWild
Posted on 4/20/23 at 12:41 pm to CatsGoneWild
Danny Thomas Hospital, Shriners Hospital, the organization that helps kids with cleft lip.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 1:28 pm to CatsGoneWild
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Give it to charities or to build houses for people who need it
Didn't Brad Pitt build houses for people who needed them? Now he is being sued.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 1:30 pm to Csmims
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They’ve actually given quite a bit more than the 2 gifts listed. Bud Walton Arena as one example.
Yep. Those are the largest "single gifts" not aggregate. The same family that dropped $100 million to MSU gave $10 million a few years ago.
What was interesting when I was looking at the largest gifts ever is that Phil Knight had two different $500 million+ gifts to Oregon.
This post was edited on 4/20/23 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 4/20/23 at 1:49 pm to anc
I think vandy should be number 1 considering the entire thing was started by cornelius to hash things out over the war
Posted on 4/20/23 at 1:55 pm to Csmims
The Waltons also gave $50 Million to the business school, which then became the Walton School of Business.
This post was edited on 4/20/23 at 1:57 pm
Posted on 4/20/23 at 1:57 pm to anc
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4. LSU (Pennington, 1981): $125 million
I bet pennington wishes he had that money back
Posted on 4/20/23 at 2:09 pm to anc
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1. Arkansas (Walton Family, 2002): $300 million
2. Texas (Jack Jackson, 2002): $232 million
3. Vanderbilt (Ingram, 1998): $178 million
4. LSU (Pennington, 1981): $125 million
5. Arkansas (Walton, 2017): $120 million
6. Mississippi State (Bishop, 2023): $100 million
Florida (Wertheim, 2022): $100 million
Ole Miss (Barksdale, 2000): $100 million
Texas (Dell, 2000): $100 million
10. Florida (Warrington, 2014): $75 million
Gotta burn Zous arse seeing a alum family give all that money to Arkansas.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 4:29 pm to CatsGoneWild
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Give handouts that will just end up wasted instead of helping people build better lives for themselves and their communities
piss off
Posted on 4/20/23 at 4:49 pm to CatsGoneWild
quote:How do you know they don’t do that as well?
Why do people give rich colleges $100 million dollar gifts? Give it to charities or to build houses for people who need it
Posted on 4/20/23 at 5:26 pm to beebefootballfan
Eh, two of Sam's sons attended Arkansas.
Alice went to some small private, but she calls the Hogs.
Honestly, the Waltons do not care about sports anymore. But their gifts to the University have been incredible. I've been working in Bentonville some lately, and it's still kind of astonishing what they're managing to do to that town. They're building a city from scratch. It has a western college town vibe. There's a Boulder feel to some parts there with all the mountain biking people. You know, minus the Flatiron mts.
Alice went to some small private, but she calls the Hogs.
Honestly, the Waltons do not care about sports anymore. But their gifts to the University have been incredible. I've been working in Bentonville some lately, and it's still kind of astonishing what they're managing to do to that town. They're building a city from scratch. It has a western college town vibe. There's a Boulder feel to some parts there with all the mountain biking people. You know, minus the Flatiron mts.
This post was edited on 4/20/23 at 5:29 pm
Posted on 4/20/23 at 5:27 pm to trussthetruzz
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I bet pennington wishes he had that money back
Is he broke now or something?
Posted on 4/20/23 at 6:33 pm to anc
6. Mississippi State (Bishop, 2023): $100 million
Florida (Wertheim, 2022): $100 million
Ole Miss (Barksdale, 2000): $100 million
Texas (Dell, 2000): $100 million
What? Bishop couldn't have written that check for $100,000,001?
This post was edited on 4/20/23 at 6:34 pm
Posted on 4/20/23 at 6:50 pm to anc
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LSU (Pennington, 1981): $125 million
That's over 415 million in today's dollars
Posted on 4/20/23 at 7:01 pm to Herman Frisco
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The rest is history
Not so fast
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Sam thanked him and got the money some where else.
He married another bankers daughter
Posted on 4/20/23 at 7:07 pm to Tornado Alley
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11. DownSouthJukin (Auburn): $Tree Fiddy $
FIFY
Posted on 4/20/23 at 7:29 pm to anc
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4. LSU (Pennington, 1981): $125 million
They probably spent nearly that much on that monstrosity of a house they built at Highland and Bluebonnet.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 7:43 pm to Forever
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Is he broke now or something?
Not quite so bad.
He died 26 years ago.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 9:02 pm to Herman Frisco
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The Waltons as a family have given Arkansas 420m in 2 gifts.
Bud Walton’s daughters’ families (the Lauries and the Kroenkes) have donated quite a bit to Mizzou.
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