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Michael Hillman, BBA \u201902, MBA \u201903, knew he had a good idea for a good cause. But even he couldn\u2019t have predicted just how perfectly it would turn out for the city of West.<\/p>\n
The premise was simple: He recruited donors from among his friends and business contacts to donate money to the city of West, Texas, for each point Baylor scored in their October 5 game against West Virginia. And given that Baylor\u2019s offense was averaging 69.7 points per game at that point, he knew he needed to prepare everyone to be ready to give.<\/p>\n
“I made sure to warn them how prolific our offense is,” Hillman says. “They were all very excited to be able to get involved and support the City of West.”<\/p>\n
Undeterred by Baylor\u2019s ability to put up points, more than 30 people joined Hillman; their joint commitment came out to upwards of $500 for each point Baylor scored. And it turned out that Hillman couldn\u2019t have picked a better night. In front of thousands of community members and supporters of West<\/a>, Baylor set a modern-era school record for points. The Bears’ 73 points against the Mountaineers represented Baylor\u2019s highest total since 1929.<\/p>\n All told, Hillman and the other donors raised nearly $40,000 for West, which will go to renovate West City Park and build a memorial to the fallen first responders<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hillman’s efforts added to the tremendous outpouring of support by Baylor Nation<\/a> and added some excitement to watching Baylor football\u2019s exploits this season.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Michael and West supporters!<\/p>\n You might also like:<\/em><\/strong> Michael Hillman, BBA \u201902, MBA \u201903, knew he had a good idea for a good cause. But even he couldn\u2019t have predicted just how perfectly it would turn out for the city of West. The premise was simple: He recruited donors from among his friends and business contacts to donate money to the city of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n*\u00a0Memorial service on Baylor campus honors fallen heroes from West explosion<\/a>\u00a0(April 2013)<\/em>
\n*\u00a0Hearts of service: Three Baylor nursing students were among the first on the scene in West<\/a>\u00a0(April 2013)<\/em>
\n*\u00a0Baylor community rallies for West, Texas, as Diadeloso becomes DiaDelWest<\/a>\u00a0(April 2013)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"