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Post by aztecjeff on Jul 27, 2024 23:56:00 GMT -8
In fact, is there even an SDSU billionaire alumni that actually exists? If not, are there any out there willing to help SDSU reach the next level?
I remember John Moors back in the day donating a lot of money to SDSU. In fact, I haven't heard anything new regarding SDSU's big donors lately, nor have I heard much from our Athletic Director on this subject for quite some time. He's been pretty quiet since that Pac-12 debacle last year.
I just wish the owner of San Diego's new MLS franchise would take a direct interest in the future success of our university & its football program...
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Post by Snohomie-Aztec on Jul 28, 2024 7:36:19 GMT -8
In fact, is there even an SDSU billionaire alumni that actually exists? If not, are there any out there willing to help SDSU reach the next level? I remember John Moors back in the day donating a lot of money to SDSU. In fact, I haven't heard anything new regarding SDSU's big donors lately, nor have I heard much from our Athletic Director on this subject for quite some time. He's been pretty quiet since that Pac-12 debacle last year. I just wish the owner of San Diego's new MLS franchise would take a direct interest in the future success of our university & its football program... Well, there is Chris Hansen, who has tried to build a basketball arenas in Seattle and Sacramento. He has major coin.... Of course it would be presumptuous to suggest how he or anyone else should spend their money, no? |
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Post by sdsustoner on Jul 28, 2024 8:56:38 GMT -8
I keep playing the Powerball
I'll even donate if I only have hundreds of millions
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Post by longtimebooster on Jul 28, 2024 9:18:08 GMT -8
Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg’s longtime producer, is probably the wealthiest SDSU alum.
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Post by missiontrails on Jul 28, 2024 10:38:56 GMT -8
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Post by fowl on Jul 28, 2024 11:15:13 GMT -8
Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg’s longtime producer, is probably the wealthiest SDSU alum. I think Jim Sinegal is. Founder of Costco. |
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Post by aztecs76 on Jul 28, 2024 12:57:58 GMT -8
In fact, is there even an SDSU billionaire alumni that actually exists? If not, are there any out there willing to help SDSU reach the next level? I remember John Moors back in the day donating a lot of money to SDSU. In fact, I haven't heard anything new regarding SDSU's big donors lately, nor have I heard much from our Athletic Director on this subject for quite some time. He's been pretty quiet since that Pac-12 debacle last year. I just wish the owner of San Diego's new MLS franchise would take a direct interest in the future success of our university & its football program... Sure that would be nice, but personally I would rather see a groundswell of Alumni and fans first!! Once then we might see some folks with big $$ step up!! Go Aztec's!! PS: Not sure what P4 is as you don't mention below the heading. I'm assuming research etc? I did a quick google and it did not answer my question. Anyway, just a quick fyi!! |
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Post by Sdsu4life on Jul 28, 2024 17:10:31 GMT -8
Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg’s longtime producer, is probably the wealthiest SDSU alum. She is nowhere close. Her networth is $300 million. James Senegal is worth over a billion. He founded Costco. |
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Post by AzTex on Jul 28, 2024 18:18:10 GMT -8
In fact, is there even an SDSU billionaire alumni that actually exists? If not, are there any out there willing to help SDSU reach the next level? I remember John Moors back in the day donating a lot of money to SDSU. In fact, I haven't heard anything new regarding SDSU's big donors lately, nor have I heard much from our Athletic Director on this subject for quite some time. He's been pretty quiet since that Pac-12 debacle last year. I just wish the owner of San Diego's new MLS franchise would take a direct interest in the future success of our university & its football program... Sure that would be nice, but personally I would rather see a groundswell of Alumni and fans first!! Once then we might see some folks with big $$ step up!! Go Aztec's!! PS: Not sure what P4 is as you don't mention below the heading. I'm assuming research etc? I did a quick google and it did not answer my question. Anyway, just a quick fyi!! Power 4 conference. Big 10, Big 12, ACC and, of course, SEC. Previous known as Power 5 conferences until the PAC 12 fell apart. Also known as the Autonomous Conferences. |
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Post by longtimebooster on Jul 29, 2024 6:24:12 GMT -8
Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg’s longtime producer, is probably the wealthiest SDSU alum. She is nowhere close. Her networth is $300 million. James Senegal is worth over a billion. He founded Costco. Well, you know that just because some celebrity website lists her net worth as $300m, doesn't make it so. The list of films she has produced is staggering, from Indiana Jones to Jurassic Park to Schindler's List. And now she's in charge of the entire Star Wars franchise for Disney. Her annual royalty stream and cash flow has to be incredible. Further, she's married to Frank Marshall, who co-founded Amblin' Entertainment with Steven Speilberg. Kennedy and Marshall's combined net worth is estimated at well over $2 billion by several Hollywood sources. And, yes, Senegal is also a gazillionaire. But if I had to guess who's net worth is higher, I'd put my money on Kennedy. |
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Post by jp92grad on Jul 29, 2024 6:40:58 GMT -8
She is nowhere close. Her networth is $300 million. James Senegal is worth over a billion. He founded Costco. Well, you know that just because some celebrity website lists her net worth as $300m, doesn't make it so. The list of films she has produced is staggering, from Indiana Jones to Jurassic Park to Schindler's List. And now she's in charge of the entire Star Wars franchise for Disney. Her annual royalty stream and cash flow has to be incredible. Further, she's married to Frank Marshall, who co-founded Amblin' Entertainment with Steven Speilberg. Kennedy and Marshall's combined net worth is estimated at well over $2 billion by several Hollywood sources. And, yes, Senegal is also a gazillionaire. But if I had to guess who's net worth is higher, I'd put my money on Kennedy. Can either play the 5 ---Stan |
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Post by aztecs76 on Jul 29, 2024 8:51:59 GMT -8
Sure that would be nice, but personally I would rather see a groundswell of Alumni and fans first!! Once then we might see some folks with big $$ step up!! Go Aztec's!! PS: Not sure what P4 is as you don't mention below the heading. I'm assuming research etc? I did a quick google and it did not answer my question. Anyway, just a quick fyi!! Power 4 conference. Big 10, Big 12, ACC and, of course, SEC. Previous known as Power 5 conferences until the PAC 12 fell apart. Also known as the Autonomous Conferences. Hahaha, thanks!! Forgot about the demise of the Pac 12...how soon we forget!! |
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Post by Ambivalent_Fan on Jul 29, 2024 9:06:59 GMT -8
What connection does either Kathleen Kennedy and/or Jim Senegal have with Aztec athletics?...other than they were once students at SDSU...
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Post by rockshow on Jul 29, 2024 9:09:46 GMT -8
She is nowhere close. Her networth is $300 million. James Senegal is worth over a billion. He founded Costco. Well, you know that just because some celebrity website lists her net worth as $300m, doesn't make it so. The list of films she has produced is staggering, from Indiana Jones to Jurassic Park to Schindler's List. And now she's in charge of the entire Star Wars franchise for Disney. Her annual royalty stream and cash flow has to be incredible. Further, she's married to Frank Marshall, who co-founded Amblin' Entertainment with Steven Speilberg. Kennedy and Marshall's combined net worth is estimated at well over $2 billion by several Hollywood sources. And, yes, Senegal is also a gazillionaire. But if I had to guess who's net worth is higher, I'd put my money on Kennedy. Nah. At the end of the day, Kathleen Kennedy is an employee of LucasFilm and Disney. She doesn't own either company. George Lucas is worth over 5 billion because he founded Lucasfilm. Kathleen Kennedy is worth $300 million because (while she is their richest employee), at the end of the day she worked for George Lucas. Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy left Amblin in 1991, so they didn't see the cash flow that Spielberg did from that company. |
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Post by standiego on Jul 29, 2024 9:14:38 GMT -8
maybe SDSU can ask the Ownership group for the San Diego Soccer team
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Post by Ambivalent_Fan on Jul 29, 2024 13:15:41 GMT -8
maybe SDSU can ask the Ownership group for the San Diego Soccer team Stan (on behalf of SDSU): Excuse me...I couldn't help but to notice that you play your league games at Snapdragon Stadium Ownership: Yeah...that's very observant of you Stan: We were thinking that you might like also like college athletics...ya see...we'd like to get ourselves into a P4 conference Ownership: Why would you want to do that?...don't the majority of those P4 schools lose a ton of money...plus don't the athletes in the P4 conferences have multi-million dollar NIL deals? Stan: Well...yeah...I guess...but you see that's not the point...we have a couple of old sports nuts, who mostly don't even live in San Diego, clamoring for the "good-'ol-days" of the PCAA...my friend AzTex and I have a fool-proof plan...we think that we can convince the greatest coach ever, Don Coryell, to come out interment to coach up team...and with Don Coryell on the sidelines...those other 4 conferences would have to let us in their cartel. Ownership: Interment? Stan: Well...officially he's now dead...but we think with the right package deal we think we can make it work...(AzTex in the background...."did you tell them my idea about bringing back Coryell!!??") Stan to AzTex: Be quiet...I'm closing the deal here!!... Stan: Plus someone on the message board noticed that both Marshall and Kawhi technically still have college eligibility left since they both left as underclassmen...with your money I bet we could lure them out of retirement. Ownership: Isn't Kawhi under contract with the Clippers?.... Stan: Er um...never mind Kawhi he really wasn't that good of an Aztec player anyways...but I'm certain that we can surely entice the greatest Mt. Rushmore athlete ever to wear the scarlet and black back to the Aztecs from Kentucky. Stan: I'm thinking that $500-700 million should do the trick...oh...and btw...it's not tax-deductible Ownership: Is this the Jerky Boys? Stan: Who are the Jerky Boys?...can one of them play the 5? Ownership: <click> |
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Post by 94sdsu on Jul 29, 2024 15:37:10 GMT -8
maybe SDSU can ask the Ownership group for the San Diego Soccer team Stan (on behalf of SDSU): Excuse me...I couldn't help but to notice that you play your league games at Snapdragon Stadium Ownership: Yeah...that's very observant of you Stan: We were thinking that you might like also like college athletics...ya see...we'd like to get ourselves into a P4 conference Ownership: Why would you want to do that?...don't the majority of those P4 schools lose a ton of money...plus don't the athletes in the P4 conferences have multi-million dollar NIL deals? Stan: Well...yeah...I guess...but you see that's not the point...we have a couple of old sports nuts, who mostly don't even live in San Diego, clamoring for the "good-'ol-days" of the PCAA...my friend AzTex and I have a fool-proof plan...we think that we can convince the greatest coach ever, Don Coryell, to come out interment to coach up team...and with Don Coryell on the sidelines...those other 4 conferences would have to let us in their cartel. Ownership: Interment? Stan: Well...officially he's now dead...but we think with the right package deal we think we can make it work...(AzTex in the background...."did you tell them my idea about bringing back Coryell!!??") Stan to AzTex: Be quiet...I'm closing the deal here!!... Stan: Plus someone on the message board noticed that both Marshall and Kawhi technically still have college eligibility left since they both left as underclassmen...with your money I bet we could lure them out of retirement. Ownership: Isn't Kawhi under contract with the Clippers?.... Stan: Er um...never mind Kawhi he really wasn't that good of an Aztec player anyways...but I'm certain that we can surely entice the greatest Mt. Rushmore athlete ever to wear the scarlet and black back to the Aztecs from Kentucky. Stan: I'm thinking that $500-700 million should do the trick...oh...and btw...it's not tax-deductible Ownership: Is this the Jerky Boys? Stan: Who are the Jerky Boys?...can one of them play the 5? Ownership: <click> Got a laugh out of me! But on a serious note, why would it take the $200m or so that was being reported the SMU guy is putting in. We're getting what, $4.5m from the MWC tv contract? So wouldn't we "settle" for that same dollar amount from the Big 12 for the remainder of their existing tv contract? In fact didn't the SDSU athletic department make more than that last year in revenue? So if we were to tell the Big 12 we'd forgo any tv deal money from their remaining tv contract but equal share next contract, we'd only be out of pocket about $4.5m for a few years, which our profit making athletic department can cover, but we'd be in a P4 and would definitely make this loss in the long run. We'd still get NCAA bball dollars, etc. Yes our teams may get beat up for a few years, but again, in the long run, it'd be well worth it. What am I missing? |
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Post by Snohomie-Aztec on Jul 29, 2024 15:57:28 GMT -8
Got a laugh out of me! But on a serious note, why would it take the $200m or so that was being reported the SMU guy is putting in. We're getting what, $4.5m from the MWC tv contract? So wouldn't we "settle" for that same dollar amount from the Big 12 for the remainder of their existing tv contract? In fact didn't the SDSU athletic department make more than that last year in revenue? So if we were to tell the Big 12 we'd forgo any tv deal money from their remaining tv contract but equal share next contract, we'd only be out of pocket about $4.5m for a few years, which our profit making athletic department can cover, but we'd be in a P4 and would definitely make this loss in the long run. We'd still get NCAA bball dollars, etc. Yes our teams may get beat up for a few years, but again, in the long run, it'd be well worth it. What am I missing?An invitation or any tangible interest from the Big-12? |
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Post by longtimebooster on Jul 29, 2024 20:47:33 GMT -8
Well, you know that just because some celebrity website lists her net worth as $300m, doesn't make it so. The list of films she has produced is staggering, from Indiana Jones to Jurassic Park to Schindler's List. And now she's in charge of the entire Star Wars franchise for Disney. Her annual royalty stream and cash flow has to be incredible. Further, she's married to Frank Marshall, who co-founded Amblin' Entertainment with Steven Speilberg. Kennedy and Marshall's combined net worth is estimated at well over $2 billion by several Hollywood sources. And, yes, Senegal is also a gazillionaire. But if I had to guess who's net worth is higher, I'd put my money on Kennedy. Nah. At the end of the day, Kathleen Kennedy is an employee of LucasFilm and Disney. She doesn't own either company. George Lucas is worth over 5 billion because he founded Lucasfilm. Kathleen Kennedy is worth $300 million because (while she is their richest employee), at the end of the day she worked for George Lucas. Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy left Amblin in 1991, so they didn't see the cash flow that Spielberg did from that company. Kennedy has producer credits on probably a tenth of the top 100 grossing films of all time. The names and numbers of films she produced is dizzying. And the annual cash flow that comes in from her royalties associated with those films likely far exceeds her $25m annual Disney salary. And remember that her salary is just her base compensation. She likely gets 2x to maybe even 3x or 4x that amount in bonuses, stock options, royalties, etc. A small sample of films that she's received producer credits for include E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark (and sequels), Jurassic Park (and sequels), Back to the Future (and sequels), Schindler's List, Twister, the Sixth Sense, War of the Worlds, The Color Purple, Lincoln, Munich, etc., etc. She has producer credits on films that have generated over $7.5 billion in revenue, which ranks her third all-time in that category behind only Spielberg and Kevin Feige of Marvel Entertainment. The bottom line is that she's sitting on an enormous pile of cash that exceeds the $300m that somehow showed up on the internet from lord knows where. Does she have a higher net worth than Sinegal? Maybe. Maybe not. As for the question of whether anyone has approached her to give back to her alma mater, I know I've had discussions about Kennedy with a couple of the honchos in university fundraising. They told me that she's not too involved with the university, though I believe she did make a significant donation about a decade ago to the telecommunications and film department, from which she graduated. I doubt she's much of a sports fan, so there's likely not much of a hope for any of her largesse finding its way to the athletic department. |
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Post by longtimebooster on Jul 29, 2024 20:56:02 GMT -8
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