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[QUOTE="richmondcuse03, post: 4788520, member: 984"]
The school didn’t even cultivate big donors. They ran some off.

The bigger issue is SU did a terrible job cultivating donor relationships across the board for decades. Athletics, academics etc. talk to anyone in the industry or the school and they will admit this. They had to catch up on the overall endowment. They had to catch up in athletics. They didn’t do basic things when it came to maintaining relationships or even pursuing things. This isn’t about Weitsman. It’s about hundreds of others and many other factors. We can complain about it for months if we want.

I think the AD has  committed to doing things the right way. I can’t speak to the rest of the university except for the fact that they’re extremely territorial about fundraising and up until recently, did a bad job encouraging people to donate to the initiatives they want vs steering toward academic issues. That’s finally starting to change so I do think the university as a whole is invested in athletics.

Weitsman is a red herring and really not the right situation to judge the school on.
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