Apologies if I missed discussion on this -
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/michigan-football-could-turn-20m-013302597.html
TL/DR - Michigan is about to realize a $2B windfall from their early investment in OpenAI and there's rumblings that they intend to put $500MM of that into the athletic department.
Seems like a $2 billion windfall could buy a lot.
by nedhead 
, Thursday, May 21, 2026, 19:29 (3 days ago) @ Jeremy (WeIsND)
They could turn themselves into the top university for research and training in whatever fields they want. I'd go with AI and robotics, but there are surely other options. At ~5% interest, that's $100 million per year without spending it down.
Or, sure, money for football and basketball. I guess it's better than how MSU or USC would spend the money, which would be paying off sexual assault victims.
that's a great way to look at it
by HumanRobot , Cybertron, Friday, May 22, 2026, 04:55 (3 days ago) @ nedhead
If you had $500 million, how would you move the needle on your football program?
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Freeman's got so much riz they need to call him Aura Parseghian
how will $2b in Azure GPU credits help UM football?
by HumanRobot , Cybertron, Thursday, May 21, 2026, 12:20 (4 days ago) @ Jeremy (WeIsND)
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Freeman's got so much riz they need to call him Aura Parseghian
I'll bet that Jack's UA stock returned just as much.
by Jason93 , Raining debris all over Europe, Thursday, May 21, 2026, 12:11 (4 days ago) @ Jeremy (WeIsND)
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I think the children like it when I "get down" verbally.