SMU Athletics Announcement

[NewAgeMustange]

I was wondering if anyone knew what the announcement that is going to be made on thursday is about?

http://instagram.com/p/oOTQlgFUwz/

[couch 'em]

10 year june Jones extension

[NewAgeMustange]

sounds good, can I take a spin and guess that it will start with a "C"?

[East Coast Mustang]

Anyone actually know what it is?

[PonyKai]

We used the endowment to buy the Big 12 and let ourselves in. But we'll still block NTSU from joining the American.

[East Coast Mustang]

Ok cool

[PonyTales]

The need some people feel to mock the program they claim to support, especially with years-old jokes that weren't funny the first 100,000 times they were regurgitated, is mystifying.

[BigT3x]

The need some people feel to mock the program they claim to support, especially with years-old jokes that weren't funny the first 100,000 times they were regurgitated, is mystifying.

awwwww poor baby

[PonyKai]

I know, I know, the announcement is to formally recognize the endowment of a scholarship in honor of an individual that has been instrumental to the success of the program:

[Stallion]

The 100 years in making is what confuses me. Not looking good for Peruna

[East Coast Mustang]

The 100 years in making is what confuses me. Not looking good for Peruna

Maybe Ray Morrison wanted an IPF

[Stallion]

NAME CHANGE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0LGJxPO-Dw

[Stallion]

Guess: Endowment initiative for athletic department including seed gift

We think we can buy ourselves into the Big Boys Club get out your checks to prove it:

Sports Endowments especially at private universities are growing:

(these numbers are almost a decade old-but still show SMU is kind of behind the times)
Bloomberg News surveyed 35 of the biggest U.S. collegiate sports programs and obtained data from 30. Of those, Stanford University had the largest sports endowment, with $270 million, followed by the University of Notre Dame, $130 million; North Carolina's $106 million; the University of Southern California, $100 million; and Duke University, $63 million.

[NewAgeMustange]

Now that was a funny clip, I knew that he graduated from SMU but I had never seen any in which he said it himself.

[Stallion]

The Professor also got an M.A. from SMU.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWCk83FDTIw