You think Cuban is only donating 6 figures or something? Lol
And what do you mean...they literally just passed Penn State as having the largest living alumni according to reports. Followed by y'all, UCLA then us.
Mark Cuban in and of himself cannot outspend let’s just use Michigan for example (but the same applies to USC and others) - Michigan’s rich alumni if they decided to push that button. And even if he and a bunch of Indiana alumni got together they couldn’t. Remember that Michigan and USC are the two big schools that pushed back on giving a private equity stake of the BIG and basically called everyone broke or had at managing their departments.
I don’t follow who has what largest living alumni base but I would assume that larger schools have more living alumni given the various departments. That has no correlation to how much money a school has or how rich their alumni are. (Harvard, Stanford, etc.) Michigan is ranked 12 globally in billionaire alumni. Indiana is nowhere near. To take it further, Northwestern, USC, UCLA and Michigan are the only 4 big schools that ranked in the top 20 of high net worth alumni (those worth 30 million or more). It’s simply a matter of whether those schools care to spend the bread. So yes, Indiana is killing shyt and they have a great coach, a veteran team and alumni who are now more willing to spend because of proof of concept. But the overall vibe that I got from your post - and I can be wrong - is that they have this money cannon to go along with everything that will keep is going and they’re simply not going to consistently outspend other big time programs if that’s really what it comes down to for kids.
