What would you do with a quarter billion dollars?

[peteandpete]

Am I really going to be the first to suggest a portion should go to solving our play calling woes on the football field? After the monorail, of course.

[Duke79UNLV77]

Isn’t that about what Uncheat spent on its cheating legal defense fund?

[fuse]

The DBR crew is a heart warmingly altruistic bunch.

[arnie]

If I had that kind of money, I would buy every ticket to every game at the Dean Dome for a decade. Then, not go.

The winning answer😀

[HereBeforeCoachK]

Pay the athletic department as long as they agree to never wear gray uniforms and return to the true duke blue. Wait, am in in the right thread?

...yep, because after last night in Pittsburgh, it's becoming official..."Cheater blue" is now darker than Duke blue...

[moonpie23]

well, obviously divide it up amongst DBR members pro-rated by number of pitch forks !!!.

[camion]

well, obviously divide it up amongst DBR members pro-rated by number of pitch forks !!!.

Well, fork me.

[TeacherTom]

well, obviously divide it up amongst DBR members pro-rated by number of pitch forks !!!.

I'll have to attempt to poke holes in that proposition with my two forks!

[TKG]

If I had that kind of money, I would buy every ticket to every game at the Dean Dome for a decade. Then, not go.

Oh, so would you join the Rams Club. Better buy a sweater vest.

[Devilwin]

Buy around 50 rams. Dye them Duke blue and paint "DUKE" in white on their flanks. Turn them loose on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill.

[throatybeard]

Free all the homies in prison and then convert them into homes and shelters for the homeless with free medical care.

^ This.

Absolutely nothing to do with sports facilities or improving sports.

If we're talking improving Duke specifically, how bout let's get AfAm student percentage above six percent or whatever similar embarrassingly low number it is at the moment, especially for a university in the South. Resources can be dedicated to this.

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

If I had that kind of money, I would buy every ticket to every game at the Dean Dome for a decade. Then, not go.

Why would you want the Dean Dome to look like Wallace Wade?

[HereBeforeCoachK]

Why would you want the Dean Dome to look like Wallace Wade?

HAH...one good reason:
The Dean Dome crowd would then do for Cheater hoops -- what Wallace Wade crowds do for Duke football....

[Stray Gator]

If I had that kind of money, I would buy every ticket to every game at the Dean Dome for a decade. Then, not go.

If you'd entertain a friendly amendment, why not offer those tickets to the most rabid N.C. State fans you can find and provide complimentary bus transportation (with appropriate refreshments on board) to the Dean Dome?

[devildeac]

I'll have to attempt to poke holes in that proposition with my two forks!

No tine for that kind of silliness.

[sagegrouse]

^ This.

Absolutely nothing to do with sports facilities or improving sports.

If we're talking improving Duke specifically, how bout let's get AfAm student percentage above six percent or whatever similar embarrassingly low number it is at the moment, especially for a university in the South. Resources can be dedicated to this.

From Data USA:

The enrolled student population at Duke University, both undergraduate and graduate, is 47.9% White, 14.4% Asian, 7.09% Black or African American, 5.71% Hispanic or Latino, 2.52% Two or More Races, 0.534% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.0636% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders.

[devildeac]

From Data USA:

Is Data USA run by a "u"nc math major? I've added those numbers up three times and am still left wondering what ethnicity the other 21% are?.

[OldPhiKap]

If you'd entertain a friendly amendment, why not offer those tickets to the most rabid N.C. State fans you can find and provide complimentary bus transportation (with appropriate refreshments on board) to the Dean Dome?

Good idea to randomly throw this in. The Heels will never know what crowd, IF ANY, they will have.

Duke fans for Duke games, of course.


But often, just silence. Which is not much different than now really, now that I think of it.

[budwom]

or we can go to Duke itself, Fall 2018 student profile: (undergrads)
https://facts.duke.edu/

looks like 44% white, 21% Asian American, 10% AFAM, 9% Hispanic, 9% foreign, 5% other...i assume rounding, or ghosts, account for the other 2%

[sagegrouse]

Is Data USA run by a "u"nc math major? I've added those numbers up three times and am still left wondering what ethnicity the other 21% are?.

Here's another source which is better and well suited to DBR -- a pie chart.

Duke is ranked #9 nationwide in diversity -- very, very good -- although I can't verify the web site and methodology.

Leaving out 10.4 percent of "non-resident aliens,"

45.7% White
21.3% Asian
9.7% Black or African
8.2% Hispanic/Latino

The rest (4.7%) are other or unknown.