re: Not the biggest SEC gift ever, but someone just gave $100 million to State

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1. Arkansas (Walton Family, 2002): $300 million 2. Texas (Jack Jackson, 2002): $232 million 3. Vanderbilt (Ingram, 1998): $178 million 4. LSU (Pennington, 1981): $125 million 5. Arkansas (Walton, 2017): $120 million 6. Mississippi State (Bishop, 2023): $100 million

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Based on past value of the money, the LSU gift would be the second largest in terms of impact at the time it was given.

$125,000,000 in 1981 would have been worth $247,387,238.72 in 2002 (year picked to easier compare with the Arkansas and Texas donations).
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Just an interesting (to me at least) bit of info. Ultimately, they’re all enormous sums.