Shooter: The Gophers men’s basketball team has a couple of starters with $750,000 deals.

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Per Shooter:

>> The Gophers men’s basketball team has a couple of starters with $750,000 deals. Minnesota, which upset No. 22 Indiana last week, has an NIL coffer in the $3.5 million range. Indiana’s NIL budget is nearly $11 million, which is among the Big Ten’s top three for men’s basketball with Michigan and Illinois.

Meanwhile, Michigan State last week received a $300 million gift for its athletics department, plus another $100 million gift for its NIL endowment.

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Go Gophers!!
 

I think Shooter meant to write: "Minnesota...has an NIL (coffin) in the $3.5 million range."
 






I can't believe we don't have a Gopher alum/fan m(b)illionaire out there that doesn't want to give gobs of money to the program. They would have the stage and spotlight to themselves.
 





GopherWeatherGuy said:
We did and then we ran him off
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I think he ran himself off. He would only donate if the new stadium didn’t cost more than something like $70 million, when we needed about a $200 million stadium. His version would not have made sense in the B1G ten.
 

WAGopher said:
I think he ran himself off. He would only donate if the new stadium didn’t cost more than something like $70 million, when we needed about a $200 million stadium. His version would not have made sense in the B1G ten.
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He donated $35 million towards the new stadium.
 


mggoph said:
Didn't he demand that it be named after him if he donated substantially more? Or at least that was the rumor?
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Actually I was wrong on this. Sanford was going to donate the $35 million for the naming rights for the new stadium for 20 years. The U decided to go with TCF Bank instead for the same price and duration. Sanford then gave $6 million for the Gophers HOF at the stadium because he liked Maturi.

There was also fallout surrounding a Sanford/Fairview merger and naming rights for the hospital 4 years later, which is when he said he was done donating here.
 



GopherWeatherGuy said:
Actually I was wrong on this. Sanford was going to donate the $35 million for the naming rights for the new stadium for 20 years. The U decided to go with TCF Bank instead for the same price and duration. Sanford then gave $6 million for the Gophers HOF at the stadium because he liked Maturi.

There was also fallout surrounding a Sanford/Fairview merger and naming rights for the hospital 4 years later, which is when he said he was done donating here.
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I had forgotten that Sanford did donate $6 million, but he also offered $35 million if the stadium was built for a low like $70 million. I had never heard that the U chose TCF over Sanford. If so, they made a poor deal because the initial TCF deal included a monopoly on ATM machines and preferential treatment for on campus branch offices.

And yes, the Fairview deal was poorly handled by both sides. Sanford wanted more than just naming rights. I can’t recall the whole deal, but many at the U were happy the deal fell through.
 


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