Tad Footeball
1996 Interim Big East Conference Commissioner
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There are some people here that actually understand the reality of the situation. Unless UM has a T Boone Pickens or a Paul Allen out there ready to seed a project with hundreds of millions of dollars, it will NEVER happen.
Lemonis is a total joke because he knows that's it's impossible, he was just pimping for publicity. If he wasn't, he'd take that million dollars he pledged and donate it to the IPF. Where is he?
Not to even address Lemonis' motives but I bet he wasn't even asked to contribute to the IPF. I bet that thing is getting funded through a few receptions with Richt with a handful of locals where he had to get the ball rolling by pledging his own cash. I haven't noticed any public drives to specifically fund it.
Nonetheless, most schools don't have sole benefactors on the T Boone level that just want to be athletic sugar daddies. The school would have to initiate a fundraising campaign and that obviously isn't happening anytime soon. The only way I personally can envision it is if Richt were to be wildly successful, the program be credited with being a huge moneymaker by multiple media/financial outlets and then Richt demands an effort by the school to build something. Even then you'd still have to hope that Frenk and the BoT would want to try to capitalize even more on any success. Lil Donna seemed mighty comfortable just sitting back and collecting our conference handout....errrr....share of the pie.