Article: Inside SMU's pursuit of the Power Five (it involved Oliver Luck)

[ttowncoug]

It makes me somewhat happy we have the guy that helped orchestrate this on our team now.

Takes time....

Inside SMU's pursuit of the Power Five — 'It's a couple hundred million dollars. I'm not losing sleep over it.'

SMU is headed for greener pastures in the ACC. How it all happened is a Texas-sized story filled with billionaires and big decisions.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[roses04]

Oliver Luck is one part of the equation, 200 million from donors is the other part, that really makes it all happen. WSU would be hard pressed to round up 2 million in the time it took SMU to come up with 200 million.

 

[ttowncoug]

Oliver Luck is one part of the equation, 200 million from donors is the other part, that really makes it all happen. WSU would be hard pressed to round up 2 million in the time it took SMU to come up with 200 million.

WSU isn't going to buy our way into a conference. Pure foolishness.

My point is Luck is connected and is the right guy for the job.