Rales was just announced as part of a group bidding on the Washington Commanders, so nine-figure gifts to Miami may have to wait a bit.
LEFT HAND UP!
Does Rales have a son who is also unqualified to be a college baseball coach but we’d hire anyway just because?
Interestingly enough, Miami’s numbers are doing well as far as applications. They expect a class of between 4000-4200. Over 36,000 applicants. All 50 states and over 100 countries represented in the applicant pool. Honor’s College had its largest number of applicants ever for an anticipated 450 or so spots. Got all this information directly from Dr. Zeb Baker, head of the Honors College at Miami.
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…meanwhile, Centerville HS will build a $9.36M Indoor/Training Facility
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Go Elks Go!
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…carry forth the Spirit and Honor of grand success.
Dan Snyder is selling the Commanders for $6 billion to a group led by 76ers owner Josh Harris. Minority owners will include Mitchell Rales and Magic Johnson.
Now throw Dan in prison for life where he belongs.
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For those that don’t know, Mitchell Rales is a 1978 graduate of Miami University!
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And a billionaire…
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And maybe a sports fan
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So could they rename the team the RedHawks?
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And built a new student center for $99 million to try to attract students.
The university believes the new student housing and student center are important parts of their efforts to turn around declines in enrollment and attract new students to Kalamazoo.
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Looks like WMU is taking a High Point University approach to development. Build it and they will come. If you’re not familiar with High Point’s campus go to their site and look at the pics. The campus streets are figuratively paved with gold - all on borrowed money.
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The “high point” of going there is all the new building. The “low point” will be when all those costs get passed into tuition increases.
(Flawless again! Punmaster with yet another win.)
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Their theory is that they would start by turning their university into a glamorous, state-of-the-art campus to attract lots of fairly decent students - primarily from the Northeast - who couldn’t quite get into elite schools but could afford to pay full tuition. They also plan on doubling or tripling their student body size. They are using this income stream to service debt. Their long term goal is to increase their academic standing in order to attract more top notch faculty and high caliber students - and increase the availability of student financial aid. They realized they would just be another struggling small private university if they continued to operate with a mundane, unremarkable campus. It’s a gamble but it appears to be working.