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Date Posted: 09:54:14 11/17/01 Sat
Author: El Gaucho
Subject: Re: Many famous alums at the Beach....
In reply to: 49er Oracle 's message, "Many famous alums at the Beach...." on 14:01:42 11/16/01 Fri

>Ah, my favorite discussion. Alums from the Beach:
>Jason Giambi, Mark O'Meara, Mike Montgomery, Larry
>Eustachy, Jim Fassel, Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin,
>Karen and Richard Carpenter, the Association singing
>group, the Jets singing group.

Anybody can have famous alumni. The question is, how many of those Beach alums actually give a substantial amount of money back to the athletics programs? If Giambi signs with the Yankees (god forbid!) for 25 million a year, is he going to turn around and give 500k a year to LBSU baseball? Is Steve Martin going to donate a 3% share of the profits from his current movie to the school?

Having famous alumni is nice, but the other part of the equation is that they have to take enough of an interest in the school to support it financially. If they aren't contributing alumni then it's meaningless except as a pride thing.

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