Gee - what a hardship! "Settling" for a $700,000 house! Oh the horrors!!! Why, they might even have to do without a second sauna, or (GASP!) they might even have to cut back on the domestic staff!!!!!
I sure hope no one posting here has to live in such a miserable "shanty"!!!!!
Look, I hate to sound ugly - and God Bless anyone with the courage to raise special needs kids. And I'm not Coach Mac's judge - I have never given $400,000 to anyone. This IS a nice story, and I think it IS a nice gesture by Coach Mac! don't get me wrong! He did a nice thing!
But - lets be "Real" for a minute - Anyone who can plunk down 1.4 MILLION bucks on a MANSION (and lets be honest, a 1.8 million dollar structure, even in Gainesville, FL, is NOT merely a "house") is not exactly a "Charity Case" in ANY SENSE OF THE WORD.
If Coach Mac wanted to do something REALLY good for the Gainesville community, he could have sold his Mansion for $1.8 MM - then given $400,000 to local charities that help poor and middle-income families with special needs kids.
I can GUARANTEE you there are families in Gainesville (and every other place in America) who have kids with special needs, handicaps, disabilities, terminal illnesses, etc - who are NOT able to drop a MILLION DOLLARS on a Mansion. Bet we could find multiple families within a 20 minute drive of the UF (or of any SEC) campus raising one or more disabled kids in a trailer park, or a "section 8" apartment.
Flame away.