Jerry Jones Gives $10.65 Million to UA Athletics Department

The University of Arkansas announced Wednesday that former UA football player Jerry Jones and his family have donated $10.65 million to the UA athletics department.

The school said the money will help support:

• The soon to be completed Student-Athlete Success Center
• A Wild Band of Razorbacks monument to establish a permanent tribute to the Razorbacks’ 1964 national championship football team
• The football team locker room at the Fred W. Smith Football Center
• The entrance lobby of the Student-Athlete Success Center

A recognition has also been made to the UA Board of Trustees to name the new facility the Jerry and Gene Jones Family Student-Athlete Success Center. The Board will consider the resolution during its regularly scheduled meetings today and tomorrow in Little Rock.

Other recognitions of the gift include the Wild Band of Razorbacks monument made possible by Jerry Jones. The football locker room at the Fred W. Smith Football Center will be named the Jerry and Stephen Jones Locker Room, while the entrance lobby of the proposed Jerry and Gene Jones Family Student-Athlete Success Center will be named in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John Chambers, Gene Jones’ parents. 

Jones has been generous to the UA of late. He recently paid Danville-chartered Chambers Bank $7.3 million for 11 tracts totaling 256 acres west of the Cato Springs Road exit, just off the Interstate 49 interchange in south Fayetteville.

He then donated the property to the Razorback Foundation, the private fundraising arm of the UA athletics department.