Aggies raised $740 mil last year

[blackoutpony]

I guess the Money Badger really worked his magic

http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... iscal-year

[tristatecoog]

I haven't seen any breakout of where the donations went. A lot of it seemed to go for vaccine generation. System schools? TX Wesleyan law school? Regardless, it's an impressive figure.

[Terry Webster]

It looks like total gifts to the university including to the Bush 1 library. I think in comparison aren't we aiming for 1 Billion in our fundraising goal?

[blackoutpony]

It looks like total gifts to the university including to the Bush 1 library. I think in comparison aren't we aiming for 1 Billion in our fundraising goal?

Yes we are aiming for 1 Billion.... spread over 4 years. They raised almost 75% of that in 1 year

[Pony^]

Aggies have much larger alumni base and a much larger student body than SMU (not as impressive on a per student basis).

[SMU 86]

Raised an extra 300 million after JF won the Heisman. A good football team helps raise money.

[Lebanese4Life]

Raised an extra 300 million after JF won the Heisman. A good football team helps raise money.

Someone explain that to Turner

[Stallion]

Turner? Maybe June should have offered Manziel instead of a smaller, shorter, slower, weaker armed, lower rated QB from California? We scouted but never offered-a bunch of Texas and regional schools did.

[Lebanese4Life]

Manziel never would've picked us.. he wanted big time football, he was ready to go to Oregon but later switched to A&M

[deucetz]

Manziel never would've picked us.. he wanted big time football, he was ready to go to Oregon but later switched to A&M

You never know, if you don't try. #shocktheworld #Mudiay

"You miss one hundred percent of the shots that you don't take" W. Gretzky

How many high school spread qb's were forced into other positions to be in a power5 conference. RG3 and Manziel were all asked to change positions at one point during their college recruitment. I am sure their have been a few 3 or 4 stars that we could have gotten that would have done well at SMU.

[Stallion]

for much of the summer prior to his senior year he was getting looks from most southwest schools-but few offers at QB. If some team had jumped on him early with a QB offer-things might have been different. Neither Oregon or A&M jumped on him early. Bottom line June didn't bother to offer the QB who won a Heisman as a freshman and instead offered a career backup. On the other hand Mack Brown offered him late as a safety-which is even funnier after watching his hilarious attempt to tackle the Alabama DB on the pick-6. That's been the big joke across Texas this week-"Mack offered Manziel as a Safety"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/1 ... 28140.html