From DMN: SMU's wealthiest fans treat new coach to dinner
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:41 pmAlan Peppard: SMU's wealthiest fans treat new coach to dinner
12:00 AM CST on Wednesday, January 9, 2008
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Sunday night, before new SMU football coach June Jones accepted the job, he attended a dinner at Nick & Sam's steakhouse. Billionaire banker and former SMU board chair Gerald "Jerry" Ford picked up the dinner check, but none of the guests got out cheap.
Each member of the group who showed up had committed a minimum of $100,000 a year for five years to SMU's athletic program.
SMU president Gerald Turner and athletic director Steve Orsini joined the gathering as did Coach Jones' agent, Leigh Steinberg. Among the diners were Houston's Paul Loyd (as in SMU's Loyd All-Sports Center), SMU board chair Carl Sewell, Collins insurance family scion Richard Collins, Amarillo National Bank president Richard Ware, Brookshire Grocery exec Brad Brookshire, Gary Crum (as in SMU's Crum Basketball Center), insurance exec Randall Goss and brothers Daniel and Clark Hunt, sons of the late Lamar Hunt.
Coach and company
Once Mr. Jones accepted the SMU job, and after all the backslapping and press-conferencing died down, he wanted a quiet Tex-Mex meal.
Monday night, Mi Cocina co-founder Ray Washburne cleared out the third floor of the Highland Park Village Mi Cocina and joined Steve Orsini, Leigh Steinberg and the new coach for a private meal with the TV tuned to the BCS National Championship Game.
12:00 AM CST on Wednesday, January 9, 2008
[email protected]
Sunday night, before new SMU football coach June Jones accepted the job, he attended a dinner at Nick & Sam's steakhouse. Billionaire banker and former SMU board chair Gerald "Jerry" Ford picked up the dinner check, but none of the guests got out cheap.
Each member of the group who showed up had committed a minimum of $100,000 a year for five years to SMU's athletic program.
SMU president Gerald Turner and athletic director Steve Orsini joined the gathering as did Coach Jones' agent, Leigh Steinberg. Among the diners were Houston's Paul Loyd (as in SMU's Loyd All-Sports Center), SMU board chair Carl Sewell, Collins insurance family scion Richard Collins, Amarillo National Bank president Richard Ware, Brookshire Grocery exec Brad Brookshire, Gary Crum (as in SMU's Crum Basketball Center), insurance exec Randall Goss and brothers Daniel and Clark Hunt, sons of the late Lamar Hunt.
Coach and company
Once Mr. Jones accepted the SMU job, and after all the backslapping and press-conferencing died down, he wanted a quiet Tex-Mex meal.
Monday night, Mi Cocina co-founder Ray Washburne cleared out the third floor of the Highland Park Village Mi Cocina and joined Steve Orsini, Leigh Steinberg and the new coach for a private meal with the TV tuned to the BCS National Championship Game.