UNT alum/ex MG Football player Jim “Mattress” Mack” McIngvale bets $10 million on Astros!

[Coffee and TV]

On 10/24/2022 at 4:15 PM, untjim1995 said:

and a wonderful humanitarian.

Sorry, but if you have 10 million dollars to bet on a sports team, you're not a humanitarian. I'll leave this thread and let the usual suspects shit on me now. 

[PlummMeanGreen]

To be honest, I have a very difficult time dissing a UNT alum who has given our school $1,000,000.  This was during an era at North Texas when no one was giving anywhere close to that kind of money to Mean Green athletics, too.
 Jimmy Mac even met his future wife at UNT as well.  Wish we had more of them like that Houston couple. 

[El Paso Eagle]

3 hours ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

To be honest, I have a very difficult time dissing a UNT alum who has given our school $1,000,000.  This was during an era at North Texas when no one was giving anywhere close to that kind of money to Mean Green athletics, too.
 Jimmy Mac even met his future wife at UNT as well.  Wish we had more of them like that Houston couple. 

He has proven he will spend money with little regard. Was this donation to help UNT, or embarrass us by putting the condition that we had to name it after a fired coach?

[PlummMeanGreen]

29 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

He has proven he will spend money with little regard. Was this donation to help UNT, or embarrass us by putting the condition that we had to name it after a fired coach?

Good question.  
MM & I are Facebook friends, but we’re not drinking buddies.  Politics would probably keep that from ever happening, but I do admire what he did to help unfortunates during Hurricanes  Katrina, Harvey & other disasters. He is a regular folk hero in Houston.

GMG!

Edited October 29, 2022 by PlummMeanGreen