Finger: With booming charm, Red McCombs’ voice always resonated
t a leasing office in Austin 25 summers ago, a couple of college kids tried at first to make a good impression. One worked at the student newspaper, the other was about to start a job with a contractor, and they hoped to beat out a slew of applicants for a vacant off-campus apartment.
Oh, how that voice carried. It wasn’t just that he boomed when he spoke, with an expert car-salesman’s cadence that was somehow drawling and abrupt and intimidating and comfortably familiar all at once. It was that people cared what he had to say. And not just people in a single niche. He earned plenty. The Spurs wouldn’t exist without McCombs, who helped lead the effort to bring an NBA team to San Antonio in 1973 and later said he considered that his most important business accomplishment. But that doesn’t go nearly far enough.
Even aside from all of that, though, there are those who benefited from McCombs’ contributions without ever stepping foot in Bexar County. He and his foundation gave $50 million to the UT business school, and $30 million to Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and donated enough to women’s sports at UT to cover the cost of the state-of-the-art softball stadium that bears the name of him and his wife, Charline.
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