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Now here's a new report on a long time topic.
- Twelve years ago, St. Paul Central-University of Minnesota grad T. Denny Sanford had his $35 million Gophers football stadium naming rights offer rebuked (Ed.Denny wanted to spread it over 20 years..) TCF Bank ended up getting rights for the same amount.
Now that Mariucci Arena has taken on 3M on as a corporate naming rights sponsor for $11.2 million, the Gophers’ Williams Arena is expected to be next for a corporate deal.
But Sanford, a billionaire philanthropist who in 2009 donated $6 million for the Gophers hall of fame at the football stadium, said he’s not interested in a rights deal for Williams Arena.
Or anything else at his alma mater.
“I’m out of Gopherland in many ways,” Sanford said.
It was Gophers athletics director Joel Maturi, now retired, who cultivated Sanford for the $6 million gift. Sanford has great respect for Maturi.
I asked Sanford if he has any feelings about new Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck.
“I’m not sure, but I like what he says — now he’s got to deliver,” Sanford said.
Meanwhile, Sanford’s latest endeavor in sports is landing a Champions Tour senior golf tournament — the Sanford International — for Sioux Falls, S.D., with a five-year contract. Sanford Health is the primary sponsor.
Sanford loves golf. The game’s greatest player, Jack Nicklaus, and Sanford worked together to get the tournament that will begin in
September of 2018 at the Minnehaha Country Club.
“That’s the biggest thing I’ve got going in the sports world,” Sanford said. “That’s going to be a big deal.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/07/2...key-to-more-than-his-own-future-with-vikings/
- Twelve years ago, St. Paul Central-University of Minnesota grad T. Denny Sanford had his $35 million Gophers football stadium naming rights offer rebuked (Ed.Denny wanted to spread it over 20 years..) TCF Bank ended up getting rights for the same amount.
Now that Mariucci Arena has taken on 3M on as a corporate naming rights sponsor for $11.2 million, the Gophers’ Williams Arena is expected to be next for a corporate deal.
But Sanford, a billionaire philanthropist who in 2009 donated $6 million for the Gophers hall of fame at the football stadium, said he’s not interested in a rights deal for Williams Arena.
Or anything else at his alma mater.
“I’m out of Gopherland in many ways,” Sanford said.
It was Gophers athletics director Joel Maturi, now retired, who cultivated Sanford for the $6 million gift. Sanford has great respect for Maturi.
I asked Sanford if he has any feelings about new Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck.
“I’m not sure, but I like what he says — now he’s got to deliver,” Sanford said.
Meanwhile, Sanford’s latest endeavor in sports is landing a Champions Tour senior golf tournament — the Sanford International — for Sioux Falls, S.D., with a five-year contract. Sanford Health is the primary sponsor.
Sanford loves golf. The game’s greatest player, Jack Nicklaus, and Sanford worked together to get the tournament that will begin in
September of 2018 at the Minnehaha Country Club.
“That’s the biggest thing I’ve got going in the sports world,” Sanford said. “That’s going to be a big deal.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/07/2...key-to-more-than-his-own-future-with-vikings/