Keeping Score: UMass dollars at work
Published: 7/23/2021 8:49:00 PM
Modified: 7/23/2021 8:49:10 PM
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The University of Nebraska just hired its fourth athletic director since it joined the Big Ten a decade ago. Trev Alberts, a Husker alumnus and former Butkus Award winner, is tasked with righting a football team that’s 12-20 under third-year coach Scott Frost, and a basketball team that’s 14-45 under second-year coach Fred Hoiberg. Both were hired by Alberts’ predecessor, Bill Moos, who struck a deal to pay Frost $5 million and Hoiberg $3.9 million a year, respectively.
In March, Ryan Bamford marked his sixth year of sitting in the big chair at UMass. Bamford’s had his ups and downs the Pat Kelsey fiasco, the AyAnna Hickman lawsuit, but his saving grace was hiring Greg Carvel.
Keeping Score: UMass dollars at work >Good morning!
The University of Nebraska just hired its fourth athletic director since it joined the Big Ten a decade ago. Trev Alberts, a Husker alumnus and former Butkus Award winner, is tasked with righting a football team that’s 12-20 under third-year coach Scott Frost, and a basketball team that’s 14-45 under second-year coach Fred Hoiberg. Both were hired by Alberts’ predecessor, Bill Moos, who struck a deal to pay Frost $5 million and Hoiberg $3.9 million a year, respectively.
In March, Ryan Bamford marked his sixth year of sitting in the big chair at UMass. Bamford’s had his ups and downs the Pat Kelsey fiasco, the AyAnna Hickman lawsuit, but his saving grace was hiring Greg Carvel.
David Martirano ’91, a partner at a Boston-based venture capital firm, has made a gift of $500,000 for financial aid and athletics at the University of Rhode Island. Half of the gift will create scholarships in the College of Business, and the other half will help to fund a basketball practice facility for the men’s and women’s Division I teams. Along with its designated areas of support, the gift will count toward Big Ideas. Bold Plans. The Campaign for the University of Rhode Island. .
David Martirano
KINGSTON, R.I. – May 14, 2021 – David Martirano ’91, a partner at a Boston-based venture capital firm, has made a gift of $500,000 for financial aid and athletics at the University of Rhode Island. Half of the gift will create scholarships in the College of Business, and the other half will help to fund a basketball practice facility for the men’s and women’s Division I teams. Along with its designated areas of support, the gift will count toward
Big Ideas. Bold Plans. The Campaign for the University of Rhode Island.
The $250,000 designated for scholarships will create two endowed funds. The first will support a student from an underrepresented population, and the second, titled the Class of ’91 AMIGO OPEN Business Scholarship, honors Martirano’s friends and peers from his graduating class.