A Good Problem for Stephen F. Austin: Distributing $137,000 in Charity

Mario Houben/Cal Sport Media, via Associated Press

At Stephen F. Austin University in Texas, administrators plan to spend this week seeking answers to a question they never thought they would have to deal with: How do you legally distribute an unexpected philanthropic windfall to the family of a student athlete?

This, apparently, is what happens when a previously unknown basketball player hits a last-second shot to beat Duke during Thanksgiving week, and word quickly gets out that there is a GoFundMe campaign for the player’s family, whose home and church were badly damaged when Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas earlier this year.

“This has been unbelievable,” Norris Bain, whose son Nathan hit…