Michigan Signing Day Raises $110,000 For Chad Tough Charity, Valenti Says It's Not Enough

DETROIT (CBS Detroit) A star-studded Signing Day event at the University of Michigan has helped raise more than $110,000 for the Chad Tough Foundation.

Part of the Signing of the Stars event on Wednesday served as a fundraiser for the foundation named after former U-M football coach Lloyd Carr's 5-year-old grandson, Chad, who died late last year from brain cancer.

Head coach Jim Harbaugh is credited with attracting an array of celebrities and more than 3,500 fans to the event, where the newest class of Wolverines was announced.

The donation became a flash point on the Valenti &Foster show on 97.1 The Ticket Thursday afternoon, with Mike Valenti saying it wasn't enough money to come from such a widely publicized media spectacle.

Others agreed with caller Daryl, who said, "The whole thing wasn't a charity event, and I think it was, I believe it was, 'Hey, why don't we give to the Chad Tough foundation' ... That's how the whole thing came about. Jim Harbaugh wanted the whole thing to be about the boys coming in, he wanted it to be about them."

Valenti countered, "But he (Harbaugh) had to add a human side, a charity side, to stop from looking ridiculous."

"Thirty-five hundred well-to-do alums and nearly $400 million on the stage -- you've got to do better than that," Valenti said.

Foster felt like no one else used signing day as a fundraiser, so it was a nice bonus for the charity.