SMU Giving Day 2019

[PonyPlayer4]

Kaz needs a new weight room. Please click on the link below to donate to the football excellence fund.

https://givingday.smu.edu/campaigns/foo ... hareWizard

[NavyCrimson]

They need to create a scholarship fund strictly for scholarships like most 'real' college football programs have - USC, Notre Dame, et al. That $$$ goes strictly to scholarships & nothing else.

We've been talking about this for 20+ years & as usual - nothing has happened. Pls say I'm wrong.

[mtrout]

He literally needs a new weight room. Bulldoze it!

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

I do have to say how shocking the low number of donors is on this - especially with the change to allow these contributions to count toward your total Mustang Club donation.

66 for football?

I understand 30 for men's basketball but that is still an embarrassingly low total.

I know these things have traditionally been driven by parents which is why you see big totals for stuff like equestrian and rowing, but SMU has been pushing this hard all over social media and it is sad so few people participate with the new donation rules.

[mtrout]

Rowing and Equestrian killing it!

[Water Pony]

Swimming & Diving had 94 donors, when you combine Men's (5th) and Women's (6th) Teams. The combined donations were $20k.

Candidly, the Women Teams came in 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 16. The first three had a total of 711 donors for more than $73k. Impressive.

[skyscraper]

1 Equestrian Excellence Fund 292
2 SMU Rowing Team Excellence Fund 248
3 Women's Soccer Team Excellence Fund 171
4 Football Team Excellence Fund 83
5 Men's Swimming and Diving Excellence Fund 47
6 Women's Swimming and Diving Excellence Fund 47
7 Men's Basketball Excellence Fund 37

Nice showing by some of the less prominent programs. And hard to see that men's basketball showing as anything other than a rebuke of on court showing.

[PonyPlayer4]

Preliminary results below. All of the gifts are still being accounted for.

SMU had a record-setting Giving Day with $1,364,733 given by 3,230 donors! Athletics received $582,210 from 1,196 donors, accounting for 42% of all university giving yesterday.

Year 2018 2019 % Change
Total University Giving $747,824 $1,364,733 +82.49%
Total University Donors 2,267 3,230 +42.48%
Athletics-only Giving $319,240 $582,210 +82.37%
Athletics-only Donors 325 1,196 +268%