DMN Reports A&M's Coach Fran Is Giving $1 Million

[PlummMeanGreen]

Today's Dallas Morning New's SportsPage had a blurb saying how Texas A&M head football coach Dennis Franchioine was donatating $1,000,000 of his own money toward the construction of a new indoor facility in Aggieland. The Aggie facility will cost about $9 million once completed. He said Baylor and TAMU were the only Big 12 schools without such a facility.

Coach Fran continues in the article saying, "...an indoor building also adds to the "wow" factor that is important in recruiting." He also said, "In today's world, you know how important it is to remain ahead of the curve in facilities because recruits arre impressed by what you have compared to the Joneses."

I know we are not going to keep up with our 2 Texas flagship schools, but we can do some things that keep us ahead of the curve of most schools in the non BCS.

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<>*<> ON ANOTHER NOTE: Anyone else notice in the Dallas Morning News sports page today that the state top 100 list of 2006 Texas HS seniors was posted?

Did anyone also notice how one particular DFW area school with a reasonably new football stadium had many of those state top 100 blue-chipper interested in their school and how another school in DFW with a stadium going on 6 decades old didn't have one of those Texas top 100's listed at all?

Edited June 26, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen