PonySnob wrote:Thank you Fred Smith!
The big donor on this project ($10 million) is Bill Laurie, who played on the 1973 team that lost to UCLA in the national championship game. He's married to a WalMart heiress. He and his wife gave $25 million to University of Missouri athletics.
This is not to say that FedEx money (if not Fred Smith's personal money) doesn't fund a lot of the U of M's programs, academics as well as athletics.
On the meta issue, Memphis is serious about doing what they feel is necessary to get ready for the next round of P5 expansion.