Fundraising For Life (Literally)

[DFW HOYA]

Genius, ghoulish, or both?

frontburner.dmagazine.com/2007/03/02/t-boone-pickens-osu-backer-for-life-and-death/

[TigerHoya]

If you follow the links deep enough at the above link you'll find this:
www.newsok.com/article/keyword/3020456/

[AustinHoya03]

More blog coverage:

“I wouldn’t call it a death pool, exactly,” said Pickens in a press conference. “It’s just another way of capitalizing existing unexploited risk.”

And to answer DFW's question, I think it's genius. Call Mr. Muir.

[ExcitableBoy]

I would have no problem booing this person if he tried to pitch something like this at halftime of a Hoyas game.

[HealyHoya]

Hmmmmm.....

Does creative, aggressive fundraising have a place in big-time college athletics?

[DanMcQ]

... if OSU falls on hard financial times, how long before someone with a 30 aught 6 receives a list?

I think you mean OSU--Admin

[HoyaTejano]

Attention is the cheapest and most plentiful currency...

[AustinHoya03]

Boone at it again:

www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/05/18/18pickens_edit.html

www.bugmenot.com

[DFW HOYA]

Hey, can't we make Pickens an offer on the Multi-Sport Facility? Trouble is, we'd have to move the SFS to Stillwater to do so.

I was just as surprised in the article to read that Dolph Briscoe was donating $3 million. Talk about a name that disappeared from Texas politics: the last Democratic governor in a 103 year unbroken streak from Reconstruction to the mid-1970's.

By the time Rick Perry retires in 2010, no telling who's going to run.

[AustinHoya03]

dfw said:

I was just as surprised in the article to read that Dolph Briscoe was donating $3 million. Talk about a name that disappeared from Texas politics: the last Democratic governor in a 103 year unbroken streak from Reconstruction to the mid-1970's.

By the time Rick Perry retires in 2010, no telling who's going to run.

Briscoe is currently writing his memoirs with the help of a guy named Don Carleton. Carleton's job? He's the director of the University of Texas Center for American History, which is where the $3M is headed.

Hope you're right about Perry, but if the interview of him in the current issue of Texas Monthly is any indication, Gov. Mofo may not have run his last race.

[hifigator]

healyhoya said:

Hmmmmm.....

Does creative, aggressive fundraising have a place in big-time college athletics?

Let me preface my reply with a statement which many, if not most of you already know:


I am far from an unbiased source to comment on questions of the validity/non-validity or anything of the sort with regards to such matters.

But off the top of my head, logic would tell me that if "said" institution was at a "financial disadvantage," which is to say that they need to "seek out and explore" new ways to fund the athletic program, then Captain Kirk said it's OK.


Down here I would like to think we would frown on such indiscretions.

But you all decide for yourselves.


Hee hee hee


Seriously, I think we will be on the same side of this issue. But I still expect a "razzing" from the likes of Boz, Cam and others who shall be nameless. (Brasky would certainly be on this list, were it not for the fact that he is still on a very exclusive list, and in fact the only member of any board ever to be "ignored" by HiFiGator.

What do you really think about the external funding, all kidding aside?

[hifigator]

hoyatejano said:

Attention is the cheapest and most plentiful currency...

Maybe so, but on its own it is relatively worthless. Theoretically speaking, currency is somewhat of a dich-nomer .... or is it a mis-chotomy? ....


In any case, in its most ideal and opportune situation, all attention will beget is more attention. Personally, I am not sure that is a good thing. In fact, I would probably state with intense vehemence the opposite. But I digress ....

All trickery aside, isn't "currency" somewhat of an oxymoron?

If it's "current" and is worthy as trade/barter for other goods and or services, then it must have worth.

Not that I dispute your intent, as I think far too many ... at least in my mind ... talentless louts have far too much attention. But there are either too many of them or too few of us.

Ideas?