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Post by lebaneaver on Jun 18, 2024 14:00:16 GMT -8
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jun 18, 2024 16:14:50 GMT -8
He just threw us $50 million for the new CIC building going up along Monroe Avenue.
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Post by lebaneaver on Jun 18, 2024 16:31:23 GMT -8
He just threw us $50 million for the new CIC building going up along Monroe Avenue. Yes...captain obvious. No s%#t. It's been "mentioned..." Notice THIS was posted on the PIGSKIN forum? Apparently not.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jun 18, 2024 17:44:39 GMT -8
He just threw us $50 million for the new CIC building going up along Monroe Avenue. Yes...captain obvious. No s%#t. It's been "mentioned..." Notice THIS was posted on the PIGSKIN forum? Apparently not. I see no reference to anything specific in your OP. You asked him to 'throw us a bone." He already did.
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Post by lebaneaver on Jun 18, 2024 19:10:14 GMT -8
Yes...captain obvious. No s%#t. It's been "mentioned..." Notice THIS was posted on the PIGSKIN forum? Apparently not. I see no reference to anything specific in your OP. You asked him to 'throw us a bone." He already did. Ok. Nitpick the f%#* out of every post, you condescending prick. You’ll show US, by God! BTW…. Relative to his WEALTH, he threw us a f%#*ing crumb, not a bone. Pick-on.
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Post by jimbob on Jun 19, 2024 1:45:02 GMT -8
I see no reference to anything specific in your OP. You asked him to 'throw us a bone." He already did. Ok. Nitpick the f%#* out of every post, you condescending prick. You’ll show US, by God! BTW…. Relative to his WEALTH, he threw us a f%#*ing crumb, not a bone. Pick-on. Well it would be nice if he could become OS's Uncle Jensen (ala UO's Uncle Phil), but I would venture to say that OS considers that 50 million a bone not a crumb even if it is just a crumb of his wealth....And many thanks for that 50 million Jensen!
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Post by nuclearbeaver on Jun 19, 2024 4:43:02 GMT -8
As much as I used to love football I think Jenson is probably wise to spend his money on education facilities and scholarships over the sunk cost that is football. His entire fortune would make us competitive I guess, doesn't seem worth the investment.
He will make a bigger impact on peoples futures with the philanthropy he has done so far.
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Post by sparty on Jun 19, 2024 5:40:33 GMT -8
This post is not going to end well based on the start of it
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Post by darthbeavs on Jun 20, 2024 6:30:27 GMT -8
Yes...captain obvious. No s%#t. It's been "mentioned..." Notice THIS was posted on the PIGSKIN forum? Apparently not. I see no reference to anything specific in your OP. You asked him to 'throw us a bone." He already did. Kind of seems like the bone he's looking to get thrown would be at the athletic department (specifically football), not the CIC. I mean $50M bones is a lot of money, and it will go to great future use for generations, which is great for OSU, but if feels like the context here is pining for a gagillionaire (gagilliion? that's a lot, right?) to 'Uncle Phil' it for OSU in addition to his outstanding educational philanthropy. But maybe I'm reading into it too much ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by 2ndGenBeaver on Jun 20, 2024 7:18:12 GMT -8
Interesting to note that Huang's net worth is now about 2.5 times that of Phil Knight. His CIC donation is pretty much "on brand" for his company, while many of Phil's donations to uo are similarly "on brand" for Nike.
While 8 or 10K OSU students might be sitting in Reser enjoying football on a given Fall afternoon, that implies 20+K students are not (the numbers are actually more extreme than that, I suspect). When I taught classes at OSU I would do a "what's happening this weekend" roundup in Friday class (mostly allowed students to invite others to their parties, it felt like), but many students didn't know there was an important football/basketball game going on..... And it gets even worse among graduate students - I was an anomaly in my department when I was in gradual school at OSU - almost all of my cohorts had no idea what was going on with OSU sports.
My point is simply that there are a large number of OSU (and indeed any university's) students that are not very engaged with athletics, for whom there are little to no impactful college memories formed from sports - indeed Jensen met his wife because they were both engineering lab partners.
And even those of us who are ardent followers of college sports are sick to our stomachs because of what is going on with NIL, transfer portal, conference realignment, ... - so potential donors might be turned off by this stuff, especially if they weren't overly fond of college sports to begin with....
Go Beavers!
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Post by 411500 on Jun 20, 2024 7:20:33 GMT -8
As much as I used to love football I think Jenson is probably wise to spend his money on education facilities and scholarships over the sunk cost that is football. His entire fortune would make us competitive I guess, doesn't seem worth the investment. He will make a bigger impact on peoples futures with the philanthropy he has done so far. Shared drinks with a family friend last night who makes substantial contributions to OSU football (by my income level, not mega-money). What he told me about his future contributions to the program was, in substance, virtually word-for-word what nuclearbeaver posted. In the past couple years he has grown beyond disenchantment with college sports. Habit keeps him from giving up on college ball altogether, as he has been involved with it as an athlete, as an alum, and as a contributor for decades. But he is no longer a financial contributor to OSU athletics. Very sad. Very sad indeed. From what I read, and from what I hear, I know that we are not the only OSU fans who have muscled through this same conversation. GO BEAVS!!
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Post by lebaneaver on Jun 20, 2024 8:19:10 GMT -8
I see no reference to anything specific in your OP. You asked him to 'throw us a bone." He already did. Kind of seems like the bone he's looking to get thrown would be at the athletic department (specifically football), not the CIC. I mean $50M bones is a lot of money, and it will go to great future use for generations, which is great for OSU, but if feels like the context here is pining for a gagillionaire (gagilliion? that's a lot, right?) to 'Uncle Phil' it for OSU in addition to his outstanding educational philanthropy. But maybe I'm reading into it too much ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) That was it. I read the article and thought, “I’d LOVE for the program to get a little some of that money.” That’s it. Would be a nice boost after all it’s been through.
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Post by NativeBeav on Jun 20, 2024 8:38:31 GMT -8
Kind of seems like the bone he's looking to get thrown would be at the athletic department (specifically football), not the CIC. I mean $50M bones is a lot of money, and it will go to great future use for generations, which is great for OSU, but if feels like the context here is pining for a gagillionaire (gagilliion? that's a lot, right?) to 'Uncle Phil' it for OSU in addition to his outstanding educational philanthropy. But maybe I'm reading into it too much ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) That was it. I read the article and thought, “I’d LOVE for the program to get a little some of that money.” That’s it. Would be a nice boost after all it’s been through. I have no connection to either the admin or to Jensen, but it seems to me that there are several "plays" that could be done here. One, try and get a meeting with Jensen, and suggest that we would rather be beholden, so to speak, to Jensen and Nvida than the major traitor selfish gluttonous TV networks that are destroying college football/ sports. Look at renaming Reser (sorry Reser family) Nvida stadium, and have Jensen's help to rebuild the PAC, as well as promote and finance the future of all TV sports - streaming.
Partner with Apple, and build a kick ass network that will give the ESPN's, FOX, etc a run for their money, ultimately crushing them. The future, whether I like it or not, is streaming and AI. Promote OSU and the engineering school, as well as sports, and get Nvida exposure at the same time, by having their logo on the stadium, uniforms, marketing, etc.
Many will claim that we are selling out, but I would say, how is this any different than the traitorous 10 selling out to the networks/ large conferences? As Bob Dylan once sang "sooner or later, you are going to have to serve someone". The days of being truly independent in college sports are over, so why not partner with an OSU alumni, promote Nvida, the engineering school, and OSU sports? And, have his help to revive the PAC. Hell, populate the new conference with tech/ engineering heavy schools, if they meet the other necessary criteria. How is opining for joining the ACC or the Big12 more acceptable? Are we not genuflecting ourselves to the big networks if we join one of the remaining P5 conferences?
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Post by NativeBeav on Jun 20, 2024 8:41:42 GMT -8
Follow up thought - if we were able to bring Jensen into the fold, so to speak, offer to present/ past donors a matching donation plan, say for every dollar donated, Jensen would match, or give 2,3 or 5 times that amount. Involve the current/ past donors as well. Better to spread the donations around, instead of it being mostly Jensen.
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Post by nuclearbeaver on Jun 20, 2024 9:09:26 GMT -8
I only see three relevant outcomes for college football. The SEC/BIG10 centralization implodes and we get a major reset. We do everything we can to spend spend spend to compete and still end up on the outs. We accept that were in the minor leagues and enjoy what we can until the money dries up and it's no longer sustainable.
I like the implosion of the greedy f%#*s but I think they will just keep milking until Iinterest and money in the sport is gone.
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