DALLAS — What drew Rhett Lashlee back to SMU? Among other things, he knew that the university’s movers and shakers — from athletic director Rick Hart and...
SMU announced plans for a $100 million end zone complex at Ford Stadium on Friday, spurred by a $50 million donation from alum Garry Weber
“I knew with the momentum we currently have with the football program,” Lashlee said Friday. “When they said, ‘Hey, we’re planning to do an end zone complex,” for example, I knew those were real things that had teeth and we’d follow through on.”on the south side of Ford Stadium on Friday. The project is spurred by a $50 million donation — the largest in school history — from the foundation of Weber, a 1958 alumnus and former Dallas county judge.
A rendering of a three-tiered End Zone Complex at SMU's Gerald J. Ford Stadium, which will be named after Garry Weber, who is committing $50 million toward the project.“That’s the competitive need of our sport,” Lashlee. “Who can draw the right student athletes to your university to help your program succeed? Which ultimately, as we know, raises the profile of your entire university.
“You’re only as good as your people. We’ve got to recruit great people to come here and play for us and be a part of our program, and this huge in allowing us to that.”— is ranked 90th in the country, per 247. It has just one commit so far in the class of 2023: three-star Lovejoy wide receiver Jaxson Lavender.
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