Por (Dan Alatorre) on February 06, 2010 (Suggest removal)

1979???

Are you freaking KIDDING me? It’s older than all the players and half the coaches!

Good gawd, our next national headline won’t be about sports, it’ll be about how the rustbucket crashed, killing all on board.

Is this an early April Fools Day joke?

Por (Dan Alatorre) on February 06, 2010 (Suggest removal)

okay, I take it back. That’s a sweet ride.

Now get it painted in USF colors.

Por (Dan Alatorre) on February 06, 2010 (Suggest removal)

Scott, USF fires Leavitt - supposedly due to at least partial pressure from big donors - and suddenly we get a jet from Frank Morsani for the athletic department?

Morsani NEVER struck me as the kind of guy who would pay favor like that. Is there a quid pro quo here? What’s the scuttlebutt?

Por (High Tech Bull) on February 06, 2010 (Suggest removal)

Dan

Back away from the keyboard and put down the crack pipe.

Not everything is some nefarious plot.

This is a simple, albeit expensive, gift.

A jet from 1979 is not that big of a deal if it was owned by a responsible person who properly maintained it.

Por (Dan Alatorre) on February 06, 2010 (Suggest removal)

Crack pipe? I don’t think I deserve that.

Por (USF99) on February 07, 2010 (Suggest removal)

Ahhh, now it all makes sense. Just prior to the Louisville game Morsani, wearing an invisibility cloak devised by his clandestine team of scientists, sneaks into Leavitt’s house and injects him with a special lunacy potion. Then the work really begins…

During the investigation, Morsani unleashes his specially devised Leavitt clone, who goes around meeting students in church parking lots and retaliating against those students who have made complaints about the real Leavitt, all the while knowing that these actions would be discovered by a university investigative team…

Por (USF99) on February 07, 2010 (Suggest removal)

Seriously though,  Morsani is a great friend to the University. Personally, I wouldn’t throw out an accusation that he is somehow behind an event that has caused such embarrassment to the institution without some amount of evidence.

Por (Ken) on February 07, 2010 (Suggest removal)

Besides an element of generosity, there’s probably a tax write-off here—my guess is that it is a depreciated asset that, when sold, he’ll owe a big capital gains tax bill on. So, instead, he gives it to the university and gets a charitable deduction. The university has to get it appraised, though, so they and FM know whether he’s getting a $500K deduction or one of $1.5M.