ESPN - Texas A&M's move to the Southeastern Conference was something school president R. Bowen Loftin called a "100-year decision" when it occurred. Turns out it was one of several factors that helped contribute to hundreds of millions in increased donations for the school.
The university raised more than $740 million in donations in the past fiscal year, the school announced on Tuesday. The total, documented between Sept. 1, 2012, and Aug. 31, 2013, is a school record and more than $300 million better than any previous 12-month period in the school's history.
Since last summer, the athletics program alone completed a 20,000-square foot football-only weight room and an athletics nutrition center behind the Bright Football Complex. It also is putting the finishing touches on a new lobby at the front of Bright and announced plans for a $450 million renovation of Kyle Field that will be completed in 2015. The new stadium plans call for a seating capacity of 102,500.
$740 million?...Seven hundred and forty million dollars? Wonder why all the sudden they're donating crazy record amounts over at A&M? Oh, the move to the SEC, gotta be it. Definitely not Johnny Football being one of the most electric college athletes ever, nope gotta be the SEC, only explanation. I have absolutely no problem with this, A&M is gonna use a shitload of this money to make an insane stadium and recruit more ridiculous talent to ease the loss of #2. But fuck, 3/4 of a billion dollars!? That's straight baller status, Aggies.
Johnny gets it. All about that money!
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