(09-19-2012 09:52 AM)CalallenStang Wrote:  Fact: SMU has raised $653 million to date in the Second Century Campaign (running from 2006 through 2015 with the target goal of $750 million) - outpacing the target trajectory by about $100 million despite the economy.

Fact: We have money, and lots of it.

A $750 million campaign is not a huge number anymore. Georgetown has a lot less big money alumni at its range and it has raised over $900 million in a $1.5 billion campaign from 2008 to 2016. Notre Dame completed a $2 billion campaign. Yale, a lot more...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/05...90273.html

Is it true that after this year, SMU does not have to pay June Jones a 7 Million dollar buyout?

That would be nice...

(09-19-2012 11:09 AM)DFW HOYA Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 09:52 AM)CalallenStang Wrote:  Fact: SMU has raised $653 million to date in the Second Century Campaign (running from 2006 through 2015 with the target goal of $750 million) - outpacing the target trajectory by about $100 million despite the economy.

Fact: We have money, and lots of it.

A $750 million campaign is not a huge number anymore. Georgetown has a lot less big money alumni at its range and it has raised over $900 million in a $1.5 billion campaign from 2008 to 2016. Notre Dame completed a $2 billion campaign. Yale, a lot more...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/05...90273.html

It's not, but it was the number deemed necessary to complete the transformation of SMU after the previous campaign in the mid-2000s which also raised a heck of a lot of money.

My graduate institution is well known for raising over $600 million in a five-year campaign during the mid-80s, which was a national record at the time and has since led to the massive campaigns seen at universities across the country.

But the point about SMU's campaign isn't the final number - it's the fact that they have clearly outpaced their goal trajectory at a time that the economy has fallen flat.

(09-19-2012 01:34 PM)SMUfrat Wrote:  Is it true that after this year, SMU does not have to pay June Jones a 7 Million dollar buyout?

That would be nice...

That information is available on certain SMU-related websites if you know where to find it (see earlier in this thread when I told Pony94 where to look on the Rivals board)

(09-19-2012 02:46 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 01:34 PM)SMUfrat Wrote:  Is it true that after this year, SMU does not have to pay June Jones a 7 Million dollar buyout?

That would be nice...

That information is available on certain SMU-related websites if you know where to find it (see earlier in this thread when I told Pony94 where to look on the Rivals board)

I'm not sure non-SMU fans care enough to be too concerned, but what's with the cloak and dagger? This is at least the 2nd time, maybe 3rd (?), that you make these secretive comments about how you can get the story on Jones buyout if you complete the scavenger hunt.

(09-19-2012 09:09 PM)CollegeCard Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 02:46 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 01:34 PM)SMUfrat Wrote:  Is it true that after this year, SMU does not have to pay June Jones a 7 Million dollar buyout?

That would be nice...

That information is available on certain SMU-related websites if you know where to find it (see earlier in this thread when I told Pony94 where to look on the Rivals board)

I'm not sure non-SMU fans care enough to be too concerned, but what's with the cloak and dagger? This is at least the 2nd time, maybe 3rd (?), that you make these secretive comments about how you can get the story on Jones buyout if you complete the scavenger hunt.

Because it is on a pay board, and so I can't post the info outside of it

(09-19-2012 09:17 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 09:09 PM)CollegeCard Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 02:46 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 01:34 PM)SMUfrat Wrote:  Is it true that after this year, SMU does not have to pay June Jones a 7 Million dollar buyout?

That would be nice...

That information is available on certain SMU-related websites if you know where to find it (see earlier in this thread when I told Pony94 where to look on the Rivals board)

I'm not sure non-SMU fans care enough to be too concerned, but what's with the cloak and dagger? This is at least the 2nd time, maybe 3rd (?), that you make these secretive comments about how you can get the story on Jones buyout if you complete the scavenger hunt.

Because it is on a pay board, and so I can't post the info outside of it

Okay thanks, fair enough.

(09-19-2012 09:19 PM)CollegeCard Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 09:17 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 09:09 PM)CollegeCard Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 02:46 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  

(09-19-2012 01:34 PM)SMUfrat Wrote:  Is it true that after this year, SMU does not have to pay June Jones a 7 Million dollar buyout?

That would be nice...

That information is available on certain SMU-related websites if you know where to find it (see earlier in this thread when I told Pony94 where to look on the Rivals board)

I'm not sure non-SMU fans care enough to be too concerned, but what's with the cloak and dagger? This is at least the 2nd time, maybe 3rd (?), that you make these secretive comments about how you can get the story on Jones buyout if you complete the scavenger hunt.

Because it is on a pay board, and so I can't post the info outside of it

Okay thanks, fair enough.

Yeah, otherwise I would

I think he will be gone by the end of the year!!!