AD Norwood Teague said this week on the Gophers Sports Podcast that "everything's proceeding to break ground in August" on the university's $150 million athletics facilities project.
In an interview with Justin Gaard and Mike Grimm, Teague said the amount of money raised is still about $70 million, but the AD gave strong hints that some big gifts are being finalized.
"We've got to get some gifts committed and finish some things up before the June board of regents meeting," Teague said. "We can take another step there, but everything's proceeded to break ground in August.
"We [have] no major problems right now. ... We've got kind of two groups out there right now, in addition to the $70 million we have committed. We have a good group of pending gifts, those that we've asked. And when you ask for a large gift, it takes a while for people to say yes because of either estate planning or lawyers or insurance or whatever it may be.
"So we have that group, and we have some others that we're getting ready to go to who obviously know that we're coming. And some of those are larger-in-esque, as we would say. So I feel very good about it."
The full interview can be found here.
