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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5470256, member: 628"] I bet people said the same things about Phil Knight many years ago. I'd say that's worked out just swell for Oregon. It's important to remember that Repole, like Knight, is donating a lot of money to the academic side of St. John's as well as the athletics side. Given his deep love of that school it seems unlikely he'll go off the rails and do something that'll damage it, if only reputationally. That's another dynamic in regards to the SU situation that is under discussed. Most of the big time athletics donors also spend considerable money supporting academic initiatives at SU. Weitsman never has. Which, as I always qualify, is 100% his right. But it makes his connection to the school shallower. [/QUOTE]