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re: Which SEC school has the most bigwigs?

Posted on 7/21/09 at 8:50 pm to
Posted by NashvilleVol
Nashville, TN
Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 7/21/09 at 8:50 pm to
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Everybody in the freaking country knows that UA has the biggest "Bigwigs" around.


Everybody minus 1...I had no clue that UA was a school of big ballers. They're so unassuming and modest
Posted by Porky
Member since Aug 2008
19103 posts
Posted on 7/21/09 at 9:21 pm to
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I knew Sam Walton founded Wal Mart, but I had never heard much about Bud Walton

I always considered him to be kinda like the "Charlie Watts" type of the group, if you know what I mean ......kinda laid back. "Still water runs deep"
Posted by SoGaFan
Member since Jan 2008
5956 posts
Posted on 7/22/09 at 12:01 am to
The biggest fail part of this argument is that other than Vandy, which has no official athletic department anymore, every other school has both an endowment and an athletic association which collects monies. These things are very separate entities and are controlled by different groups. For example, the Board of Regents in the State University System controls the UGA endowment, but the athletic association is definitely not controlled by the state. "Bigwigs" tend to donate to both, but in the end, I agree with the poster that said a bigwig is not a person trying to go under the radar. They throw out big wads of cash and have things named after them. Yes, Vandy has on the whole some very wealthy alumni, but I think you would be shocked by some of the dollar figures sitting in the backwood bank accounts of students at other schools. Take a look at Thomasville, GA. It doesn't look like one of the wealthiest enclaves in America, but it is.
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