So, You Hit Megamillions for $1.6B

[Chin Diesel]

You win the whole thing.

Sole winning ticket, split with no one else.

Even after taxes you will have some free money and you choose to stroke a massive check to UConn to keep athletics competitive in a P5 world (You are also free to fund whatever academic programs as well).

How much and how do you allocate it?

Me? I'm thinking $250M long-term.

$200M- donation to be invested for operating income. Give AD a $15-$20 million per year operating income boost. UConn needs more income than they currently get from existing sources of income.
$30M- Donation for coaches salaries to support HC's and staff. Invest and draw down as necessary. Imperative to find and retain top coaching talent. Every coach's ego may equate to a coach leaving for another gig but UConn can't become a feeder school to the P5 because they can't pay HC and staff.
$15M- Hockey and baseball facility improvement on campus.
$5M- Other sports facilities improvements.

I might even throw in another $30-$40 million donation to add 15k seats to the Rent on contingency that seat donations go away, no seat costs more than $30 and seating for each section is first come, first serve.

 

[JMick]

I think the biggest help would be as a bag man for the football program.

 

[Stinger92860]

I offer the aac and big ten 100m to take uconn.

 

[SubbaBub]

I'd spend $5M on 22 Cam Newton level recruits at every positon, including kicker.

 

[HawkHusky]

I wouldn't give more money to UCONN than my mother.

 

[Mr. French]

I wouldn't give more money to UCONN than my mother.

Yeah, 250 schmilly is going to be tough for me to drop. I’m not an alum or anything. Even if I was ... that’s some cake.

 

[Paesano]

I would spend the money to demolish Monteith and Arjona. I would replace them with two massive and beautiful academic buildings. One would house both humanities and the social sciences and the other would be a new engineering building for a new engineering department. I would also renovate Shippee to make it a palace for the honors students.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I wouldn't give more money to UCONN than my mother.

How much does your ma send to UConn?? Why would you cap your donation based on her giving levels?

For $250M you could name buildings and scholarships in her honor.

 

[HawkHusky]

How much does your ma send to UConn?? Why would you cap your donation based on her giving levels?

For $250M you could name buildings and scholarships in her honor.

I think you misunderstood. Let me clarify:

I wouldn't give more money to UCONN than I would give to my mother.

 

[RoderickSpode]

I would bulldoze Gampel and put a proper basketball venue on campus with comfortable seating. Won’t need to worry about finding Patoni replicas to fix the ceiling anymore, either.

 

[HawkHusky]

I'd buy an NHL team and bring them back to Connecticut.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I think you misunderstood. Let me clarify:

I wouldn't give more money to UCONN than I would give to my mother.

Gotcha. I think with the amount of money you have you could make ma comfortable for substantially less than $250M, but that is a choice.

 

[ctchamps]

I'd set up a fund to pay people for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of Mark Emmert.

 

[Ewekon]

I'm ponying up the extra buck for the multiplier on this one

 

[JMick]

I wouldn't give more money to UCONN than my mother.

I have thought about this before. If it's $1.6b then you're probably going to get about $700mm if you take the cash option or $1.1bb if you take the annuity. There is plenty of money to throw around. I would probably give away about $100mm to friends/family as a one time, you are never bothering me for money ever again, and then I'd probably spread out another $100mm in donations. At that point you still have $500mm. Live on the 5% interest and never touch the principle again. Even at 5% annually you can donate additional millions every year and it would be plenty of money to get your name on a building and help the school

I would also make sure to put away $100 for the guy I hate at work and give everyone else like ten grand just because he's an

 

[CL82]

I would bulldoze Gampel and put a proper basketball venue on campus with comfortable seating. Won’t need to worry about finding Patoni replicas to fix the ceiling anymore, either.

 

[FDNY99]

Endow the 85 scholarships for the football team minimum...see what it would take to endow every scholarship they give. This should reduce Athletic Department costs significantly. I would also fund a men's lacrosse program and the ice hockey teams would see a brand new facility (5000-5500 capacity including SRO, Top shelf practice facility as well).

 

[storrsroars]

I'd be busy figuring out where my new foundation should be allocating funds to develop practical models for reducing the cycle of poverty to have time for hoops or a hopeless g5 football program

 

[Dove]

I would request itemized invoices of the expenses that kept the Yard going for 20 years and reimburse everyone.

I then would give $100,000 to each of my Top 15 fave Yarders.

 

[DonaldDraper]

 

[krinklecut]

I'd pay to redo gampel and get my name on it

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

I'd pay to redo gampel and get my name on it

Harry A. Krinklecut Pavilion

 

[Dove]

krinkelcut Court sure is unique.

 

[krinklecut]

krinkelcut Court sure is unique.

Krinklecut Dome, thank you.

 

[Huskyforlife]

The number it would take the ACC to bite on.