Say you have to give $100Million to State, How do you spend it?

[cowbellpresident]

First, I would spend about $10M on a basketball practice facility. I don't know what the going rate on these are, but I assume that 10M could build a suitable facility.

Second, I would look at Davis Wade for some much needed upgrades
15M for West Side Renovations (this should do everything needed over there - including new cups for 10 years)
32M for South EndZone Addition - including sky boxes and increasing capacity to about 70k (if you build it they will come) obviously this could be North endzone as well, depends on how far 32M will go to building a new M club on North Endzone
8M for Ribbon Boards and New video board and additional can go to new PA system
5M endowment for athletic marketing (beef up the dam radio network/ increase value of MSU name) buy helmet rights from Nike, etc

Finally, I think you have to give some to the endowment - we suck at that so a $30M gift to the endowment would produce 1.5Million a year at 5%. Plus this would increase our current endowment by about 10%

OK FLAME AWAY -

 

[FlabLoser]

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[Mutt the Hoople.buhoops]

...and not put into an "Endowment Fund". "Big College™" has gotten into a "Who has the biggest penis" contest with their endowments. Harvard and Yale have multi-billion dollar endowments, while State's is around $250 million. Problem is, "BIG COLLEGE™" DOESN'T WANT TO SPEND ANY OF IT!! They want to use only a fraction of the interest from it to fund anything. They're afraid that if they use it, eventually the money will dry up. They're afraid the money will dry up because "Big College™" is becoming a fever-swamp for leftist thinking and most alums aren't going to want to give money to a bunch of Professors pissed off the Soviet Union went tits up in 1991.

Now, back to the topic..if I had $100 million. I'd would spend $25 million on Engineering scholarships, with the stipulation that the $25 million was matched by other donors (this would be one of the few places where I'd let them put the money into bank to collect interest, but they'd have to spend 105% of the interest to fund the scholarships. That way, they'd have to rely on continued donations from supporters and couldn't rest on their laurels). Since this would basically make the School a free education for any Engineering student, the standards would rise and curriculum would be tougher.

Another $25 million would be to expand/renovate the Sanderson Center. The new Sanderson/Mutt the Hoople Center would not only have improved equipment (like HDTV's in the cardio room for the people to watch while bicycling or walking the treadmill), but would be funded to stay open all hours. Any money left over would put lights up on ALL the intramural fields behind Dorman Hall, so they could have Intramural night games.

Another $20 million would improve the Mitchell/Mutt the Hoople Library, to make it one of the best in the Southeast. I know it's been renovated in the past decade or so, but a library should be one of the university's biggest selling points.

The final $30 million would be used to to bowl in the north endzone and put luxury boxes above it at Davis/Wade/Mutt the Hoople Stadium.

 

[Shmuley]

at Mississippi Southern, set them up a sweet lab, and demand that they develop stadium cups that don't taste like unwashed ***.</p>

 

[8dog]

and call it the "Luckier Day Fund"

 

[MaxwellSmart]

First would be fixing up Dudy Noble. A face lift (might even forget to put the legends name back on it) with boxes and chair backs down the lines for the new coach to fill. Set up a pay for performance incentive deal for the new coach, provided it's not Raffo.
Second would be the basketball practice facility and let Rick know that if anybody transfers now he has some explaining to do.
Lastly I'd let Byrne know that I expect full "cigar boy" status and I'll pitch in the rest of the money when we make a commitment to winning in football. Yes that means one more losing season in the next 2 and McCroomvey hits the road. Breaking even don't cut either.

Edited because I wanted too.

 

[windcrysmary]

be plenty of live entertainment, food , booze and a fun atmosphere before football games... healthy south beach food available at all times for our athletes...

after seeing a few games at bamer and one in knoxville...I think MSU needs to de-redneck our game day atmosphere... then hire some tough guys to go visit those in authority who oppose the plan and "pursuade" them to lighten up and realize MSU needs to catch up to the modern times...

 

[jmbeck]

after seeing a few games at bamer ...I think MSU needs to de-redneck our game day atmosphere

You serious Clark? It all depends on what areas you go to. There are parts of Alabama's campus on game day that look like a First Monday Swap Meet.

I don't see much blatantly hillbilly **** going on at MSU. There are some spots here and there, but there's not pig races outside the Barnes and Noble or anything.

Unless you're talking about the beer drinkin', and if so then you can just go #*%@ yourself.

 

[windcrysmary]

the stadium... walking towards the stadiums in bamer and knoxville, there are multiple bans playing music, lot's of outside drinking and eating... lots of establishments near the stadium .... making it where you don't have to set up a tent and bring your stuff....

 

[Agentdog]

-Buy all the parking lots on campus and give away parking on gameday. I know how State fans hate giving up $10 for parking.

-Install a giant canopy over the east side. I know how State fans hate sitting in the sun.

-Buy 10K cardboard cut outs of fans and place in the upper deck. So, State fans would not have to sit up there because I know......

-Pick up a few guys on work release and have them patrol the Junction. Pay them nicely to beat down anyone they catch trying to do the "soulja boy".

-Slip Les Miles and Bobby Patrino a couple of million to leave the first teamers at home vs State.

-Pay Croom and the entire athletic department staff to take the weekend off SBW. Bring in 2 Live Crew to put together a SBW to remember.

-Pay Stan Jones a ridiculous amount of money to come back and lead us to the Sweet 16.

-Pay off our opponent in the round of 32.

-Start a new study program for athletes. Hire the finest chicks in the southeast to run it. I hear there are a few ladies in Memphis that lost their jobs a while back.

-Asian spa in the LFL.

- Start a bogus scholarship fund that just happens to give the three badest pitchers in the southeast a scholarship.

-Bribe everyone on the IHL to quit. So, I could take over and name Ed Orgeron Chancellor of OM.

 

[vhdawg]

...I would first of all guarantee that forevermore I will be flying on the team plane to any and all games outside of a three-hour drive from my house unless I decide not to. I sat next to some people in South Carolina last year that rode on the plane, and after driving ten hours by myself, I thought that sounded like a damn good plan.

Then, in no particular order:

DWS amenities renovation (bathrooms, TVs/audio in the concourses, anything else that needs it).
The same at the Hump and DNF as necessary. Replace fake brick facade on DNF jumbotron with real brick. Falsely claim that said brick came from Old Main.

Basketball practice facility.

I'd have to come up with some multi-million-dollar building to build that we can slap my name on, and have a "museum" in it as pretext for a place to store some of my ****.

Something to do with engineering. I'd probably lobby to reinstate Embree's writing for engineers class instead of all the little wimpy substitute courses they wound up using instead like Writing for Ag and Writing for Thinking. (Note to any engineers: <17> yall, I got an A in that class. Most engineers can't write worth a damn.)

I can't think of anything else.

 

[SheltonChoked]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I'd be a name donor to the following:
1) Basketball practice facility (complete with a JR laprunning track)
2) Renavation of the West side of DWS ( TV's at concession and bathrooms, speakers in every section so that we don't have a time delay issue, enclosed upper concourse, New club level)
3) Create the SixpackSpeak North endzone with both field and Skyboxes.
4) Extend the grandstand to the foul poles at Dudy-Noble (with skyboxes and brick the outside). <br style="mso-special-character: line-break"> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break"></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Give the remainder to the Engineering department to fund Student projects like the Solar car race, the DARPA robotic car challenges, etc.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">
Use my Cigar boy status to get the following Jersey's places in a ring of honor at the appropriate facility:
1) Bailey Howell (the rest in no particular order)
2) John Bond</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">3) Jeff Malone</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">4) Darryl Wilson</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">5) DD Lewis</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">6) Will Clark</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">7) Raffy</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">8) Thigpen</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">9) Brantley</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">10) After 5 years, Polk</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></p>

</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I'd come up with more (It'd have to be like the other HOF's. 5 year wait period. Committee ballot more than 75% to get in)</p>

 

[Aelyn]

reading comprehension ftw

 

[jmbeck]

...at those close establishments in Tuscaloosa. I'd just as soon reach into my own cooler while standing around a grille with a game on under the tent.

But, maybe that's me.

Also, there's not a damned thing about the Knoxville campus I envy. Well, except that 105K capacity stadium.

Oh, and the river. The river is cool.

To each his own, but I like what we have going.