SuperiorBuff
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Mines is their school of choice.
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Leavitt to FSU (or not - UO backs up a Brinks truck)
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BlackNGold
Club Member
Ergen is a Tennessee Grad but is tight with his money (brown bags his lunch every day). Anschutz is a Kansas Grad and supports their Athletics a little but. He is all in on the Medical campus but mostly because of its importance to Denver - he is less enthusiastic about CU in general.
What's the deal with George Solich these days? Is he still an active booster?
CitizenKane
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Could be because they all went there and there is always at least one Coors on the board of trustees...oh and they don't have to give Mines much money to make them happy.
Kimbal. The Elon of the food industry.
DrunkPanda
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Haha, that's pathetic if he's really that tight with his money that he brown bags his lunches just to spend less. Having worked for him in the past, I know that he has no problem spending his company's money on extravagant personal expenses, like it's his own personal piggy bank. If he's really that stingy with his own money just because it's his own, then man... He is literally a real life Scrooge. Also, I can confirm what the other guy said about him being a douchebag. And a raging hypocrite. One of Dish's company mottos is "spend company money like it's your own" (or something. meaning don't waste the company's money). Yet he sends the corporate jet to pick up his friends and family when going on vacation...
TL: DR - **** Charlie Ergen
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Since you don't run in the same circles as me and G, I don't feel comfortable sharing any info I have.
The Kitchen, etc.
DrunkRalphie
Well-Known Member
I vaguely remember hearing a rumor Solich got his feelings hurt when Bohn made the MacIntyre hire without fully consulting him. Is there some semblance of truth there or am I way off? I would think RG being a shrewd AD would never burn a major donor bridge so maybe he gives more discreetly.
AllStarBuffs
Member
The real question Is how many circles?
Zero
I always thought it was more like him not liking his name going so public with all the rumors he was going to donate a huge amount, like $100,000,000, when the sale of his company happened.
DrunkRalphie
Well-Known Member
Just me speculating. George doesn’t confide in me much.
His step-sister is a senior now at CU as well. He doesn't come off as a huge sports fan to me though...
NeverGiveIn
Confused by the facts
Oh wow, I had no idea - The Kitchen is delicious. There's one downtown, too. Both great.
I always felt like George wanted to be the head personnel guy for the buffs just like his good buddy John Elway was for the Broncos. And we know how that's been working out.....
Oh, you mean that Super Bowl thing?
Looks like he is in Boise today...looking at another QB.
The Broncos roster (overall) is still quite good, except for QB and RT. NFL is designed to create roster gaps/parity with free agency. PFM riding into the sunset and the likes of Malik Jackson, Danny Trevathan, etc. moving on hasn’t helped.
Stay on target folks.
Apparently Leavitt's contract extension/raise still includes the $0 buyout for KjSU, and the crypt keeper still hasn't "decided" if he'll coach beyond the bowl game.
I have a duck fan in my office.
The schadenfreude is already flowing as he's convinced mediocrity is inevitable. If they were to lose Leavitt in January after this ride, well... let's just say that his dejection every time he saw me would be glorious.
Apparently Leavitt's contract extension/raise still includes the $0 buyout for KjSU, and the crypt keeper still hasn't "decided" if he'll coach beyond the bowl game.
I have a duck fan in my office.
The schadenfreude is already flowing as he's convinced mediocrity is inevitable. If they were to lose Leavitt in January after this ride, well... let's just say that his dejection every time he saw me would be glorious.
As much as I would love to vicariously enjoy that Duck fan's fears and anxieties, as long as Uncle Phil is around, he'll be spending serious cash to avoid anything resembling Duck mediocrity.
BlackNGold
Club Member
Solich is still a big donor and committed to CU, but he has always contended that he did not want to be "THE" donor. He did not get his feelings hurt but he did not like how he was paraded around when they interviewed Butch Jones. And no he does not want to be the head personnel guy - just the opposite - he wants CU AD to be sustainable.
In reality, he has been pretty consumed with growing Four Points Energy which he founded in 2013 after the selling of Cordillera.
Yeah. I thought his ideas went more along the lines of things like getting 50 big donors together to each put in a half million to 2 million bucks into a donation kitty, buy CU a university hotel as a non-profit entity of the athletic department, and have that endow the program into the future.
Wasn't that Richard Branson? He said if you want to become a millionaire, start as a billionaire then try to start an airline.