Tepper vs Pegula

[Sean Miller Fan]

Pitt and PSU both have owners of NFL teams. Just out of curiosity, which donates more to football/basketball? I'm not even counting Pegula's massive hockey donation because that's just stupid.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Tepper does well by CMU. I think Pitt's administration and long time trustees seem oblivious on how to woo and court big donors and have for decades.

 

[HopeandChangeforAntoons]

We should start an endowed scholarship fund that posters pledge $1 toward every time someone brings up Tepper or Mark Cuban donating / not donating money to Pitt.

 

[9nationalchampionships]

I think we have our 1st $1

We should start an endowed scholarship fund that posters pledge $1 toward every time someone brings up Tepper or Mark Cuban donating / not donating money to Pitt.

 

[pittchagg]

If you exclude the hockey donation (which is certainly a hell of an exclusion) then I believe Tepper has donated more to Pitt’s football and basketball programs than Pegula has given to Penn State’s football and basketball programs.

 

[JD1976]

I don't know how much Pegula gives annually to PSU football, but he donated $1.3 million to keep Bill O'Brien as head coach when he nearly bolted for the NFL after the 2012 season (of course, he still did after the 2013 season).

https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-...pegula-helped-keep-bill-o-155827426--nhl.html

 

[Panther Parrothead]

Tepper does well by CMU. I think Pitt's administration and long time trustees seem oblivious on how to woo and court big donors and have for decades.

Actually, DT has already given boat-loads of money to Pitt, and I've been told that Heather Lyke has a good professional relationship with him......

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

We should start an endowed scholarship fund that posters pledge $1 toward every time someone brings up Tepper or Mark Cuban donating / not donating money to Pitt.

We don't have that much money.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

Actually, DT has already given boat-loads of money to Pitt, and I've been told that Heather Lyke has a good professional relationship with him......

He is perennially one of Pitt's largest athletic department donors. But it's always way more fun to spend someone else's money, and if he's a rich guy so much the better, because he can afford what you want to spend.

 

[McKee Place]

No way for me to know but it's pretty plausible that Tepper was at least one of the main parties if not the sole one to pony up to buy out Stallings. That was too big a chunk for Pitt to absorb and still be able to hire a decent replacement like Capel.

 

[pitt-girl]

Tepper does well by CMU. I think Pitt's administration and long time trustees seem oblivious on how to woo and court big donors and have for decades.

Not true Recruits. He's been woo'd for many years. And he's donated a lot to Pitt. Although we would all like more, he is currently more financially invested in CMU which is his right.

I'll be happy to see him provide more as time goes on. Just might not be big chunks.

 

[Panther Parrothead]

He is perennially one of Pitt's largest athletic department donors. But it's always way more fun to spend someone else's money, and if he's a rich guy so much the better, because he can afford what you want to spend.

Indeed. A self-made billionaire doesn’t need me advising him on how to spend his money.....

 

[Ski11585]

Tepper does well by CMU. I think Pitt's administration and long time trustees seem oblivious on how to woo and court big donors and have for decades.

I’m assuming you mean athletics related donors? Because it’s been less than a decade since Pitt completed a $2B campaign. You don’t do that by ignoring big donors.