Tim McGraw raises over 1 Million for Florida State University Benefit Concert

NASHVILLE, TN. (Tim McGraw Official Website/ Curb Records) - Tim McGraw performed a show to benefit Florida State University on November 18, raising well over 1 million dollars for the college. Funds will go to the FSU Career Center building, which helps students entering the job market, and a newly formed scholarship in Tim's father's name, Tug McGraw, who died in January of brain cancer. The concert was sponsored by Bud Light, McGraw's tour sponsor of the last several years, and was spearheaded by Susie Busch Transou and her husband Tripp Transou.

The FSU Career Center, widely regarded as one of the best in the nation for programs and services, has outgrown its space in the University Center and is now spread over three locations. Plans are under way for a new facility to be built in a central campus location.

The Tug McGraw Baseball Scholarship, a fully endowed scholarship, will be distributed annually to members of the FSU baseball program.
'I can't express enough to the fans that attended the concert how much it means to me and my family that a person will have the chance to go to college because of the Tug Scholarship,' said McGraw. 'He would get a real kick out of that.'

The concert's gross, while another career-best in McGraw's career breaking year, topped the previous Tallahassee record set by the Eagles in June 2003 with $925,000.