Baylor Announces Lead Gift For New On-Campus Stadium

[TexasTowelie]

WACO (March 13, 2012)—Baylor announced Tuesday that Temple businessman Drayton McLane, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth have made the largest capital donation in university history for construction of a new on-campus football stadium.

If fundraising goes as hoped, the stadium could be completed in time for the first home game in 2014.

Baylor spokeswoman Lori Fogleman said the family didn't want the amount to be disclosed, but she confirmed that it was more than the $20 million donated by three Baylor law graduates in 1998 to build a new law school.

McLane had been considered a likely source for the lead donation for the new facility since November when he sold the Houston Astros, which he had owned since 1992, to a group of Houston investors for $610 million.

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Baylor_To_Announce_Lead_Gift_For_New_On-Campus_Stadium_142489485.html

[font color=green]It must be nice to have the $$$ to donate.[/font]

[mbperrin]

1. No dancing or drinking, but football is more important than law.

Sounds about right.

[sonias]

2. Oh the priorities of the rich

I can understand donating to a university if you had money. I would do the same. However I would expressly forbid any of the money being used to build a stadium.

I would rather fund programs and staff, or as they said in the article a law school.

Football will always find "donors".