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Jerry Jones donates $10.65 million to the University of Arkansas

ByLuke Dahlgren|
Oct 11, 2014; Fayetteville, AR, USA; Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is honored along with his teammates from the 1964 team prior to the game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Arkansas Razorbacks at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Nelson Chenault-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 11, 2014; Fayetteville, AR, USA; Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is honored along with his teammates from the 1964 team prior to the game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Arkansas Razorbacks at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Nelson Chenault-USA TODAY Sports

The Dallas Cowboys owner will have an athletic center opened in his name.

The University of Arkansas has received a $10.65 million donation from Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in order to help pay for an athletic facility for the school. The facility, the succinctly named Jerry and Gene Jones Family Student-Athlete Success Center (or hopefully the J&GJFSASC), will serve as a monument both to Jerry Jones eminence and for the 1964 Arkansas Razorbacks football team that was declared national champions by the Football Writers Association of America.

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From Associated Press:

"His gift will help support a 55,000 square-foot center scheduled to open this year. It includes academic and dining areas for athletes …"

College football is littered with enthusiastic and rich donors such as Oregon’s Phil Knight and Oklahoma State’s T. Boone Pickens. This donation likely secures Jones’ place among them as a special alumnus, and it will allow for him to be cryogenically frozen in the school’s science laboratory along with the rest of the 1964 Razorbacks team. Further donations could allow for an Eye of Jerry to be built at the center of campus, enabling him view the scurrying undergrads from above.

Of course if you’ve been to AT&T Stadium, you know Jones has cash to build all sorts of things.

[H/T: Associated Press]

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