10,000 B1G Build donors; Who is in?

[RUonBrain]

Today, Pat Hobbs said 2,000 people have already donated to the B1G Build Fund, but he wants to get that # up to 10,000.

For a school as large as RU, I believe 10,000 should be an attainable #.

I know the majority of $ will come from the higher end donors, but every $1 counts, and even if you give $25, you are 1 of the 10,000!

I also know many, many people here contribute to RU in other ways besides this fund. That is great!

For this specific fund, the more donors we have, the more momentum we can generate, which Hobbs can use to further strengthen his pitch to others in order to close the deal.


I ask that anyone who has contributed to making this project a reality to please post here and say you are 1 of the 10,000.

(I don't care if your pledge was $25, $50, $100, $150, $200, $250, $500, $750, $1,000, $2,500, $5,000, $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, $1,000,000...)

If you contributed something to this specific fund, you should take pride knowing you helped build it.

When you drive by the facility in 2019, you can say to yourself, "I helped make that happen!"


I joined the 10,000 last December.
Who else is part of the 10,000?

(If you are not, just fire off at least $25 or $50 to the fund so we can at least reach 10,000!)


Thanks!
Go RU!

 

[RU-ROCS]

I'm part of the 2000 already in. I hope everyone on this board joins and gives what they can regardless of the amount.

 

[RU MAN]

I'm part of the 2000 already in. I hope everyone on this board joins and gives what they can regardless of the amount.

Ditto. Please give.

 

[RU at the shore]

Is there an easy way to find out if your 1 of the 2,000 ?

 

[RUJMM78]

There are thousands of alumni living in NJ that don't contribute $ 1 dollar to Rutgers for any funding project.This has been a ongoing problem far more important than just Rutgers athletics.

For the record I am one of the 2000 that contributed to the build fun but am deeply disappointed regarding the low number that have contributed.Bottom line there remains a disconnect between the people living in NJ and Rutgers, the state university which is far different in other states.

The other issue that needs mentioning is the cost of construction in NJ and the end less delays in completion of projects .The tentative date for completing the practice facility is July,2019 which seems too long .

 

[RUPartisan]

For the record I did donate to Build but I think any momentum we had was halted in the summer by Hobbs who thought incorrectly that we would capitalize once we get some BIG wins during the football season so the who thing kind of sputtered. The excitement around the program quickly faded. Now if we get some early wins this year I think we will see a lot of new donors.

 

[pmvon]

I simply cannot believe there are only 2000. We have 400000 alum.

 

[knights1212]

I am also one of the 2,000. I cannot believe that we get over 50,000 for football games but cannot get even 10,000 to pledge even $25.00 or $50.00 I realize that it is tough for a lot of people but many will find other ways to spend their money. It would be nice if many other people helped in the raising of money for our new facilities. I think that would mean so much to people in the future. I just hope I will even be around to see all of the improvements but RU means so much to me.

 

[RUJMM78]

I am also one of the 2,000. I cannot believe that we get over 50,000 for football games but cannot get even 10,000 to pledge even $25.00 or $50.00 I realize that it is tough for a lot of people but many will find other ways to spend their money. It would be nice if many other people helped in the raising of money for our new facilities. I think that would mean so much to people in the future. I just hope I will even be around to see all of the improvements but RU means so much to me.

NJ is one of the richest states per capita income.Its mind bogging that Rutgers can't get even $25 from season ticket holders to the various sports teams.There are over 8 million people in NJ and Rutgers simply can't gain traction as compared to other state universities nationwide.Fans continue to complain about the lack of success of teams but they fail to realize that facilities play a big part in recruiting better players regardless of sport.

This discussion has been going on far too long .While press conferences are important in giving information on construction projects,over coming the lack of financial donors big and small seems to be difficult to solve.The easy way out is to wait until 2021 when Rutgers gets full funding.What isn't known will be the amount of unpaid obligations that have to be paid prior to starting new projects.

 

[biazza38]

I have donated. We need to keep getting the word out. Everyone post on facebook

 

[ColonelRutgers]

I bet a decent amount of supporters give toward the scholarship fund which is a requirement for premium seating and that's it. They feel that they've done enough. Also, since the B1G Build Fund first phase primarily is to help for construction of facilities not related to football, a lot of others cannot be bothered. I posted the replay of the Facebook Live session in the Round Table and there were virtually no comments except for one person who listed the best part of the whole 30 minute program being that the site of the LAX/Soccer facility won't take space from the Blue Lot. That says a lot.

 

[RUonBrain]

NJ is one of the richest states per capita income.Its mind bogging that Rutgers can't get even $25 from season ticket holders to the various sports teams.There are over 8 million people in NJ and Rutgers simply can't gain traction as compared to other state universities nationwide.Fans continue to complain about the lack of success of teams but they fail to realize that facilities play a big past in recruiting better players regardless of sport.

This discussion has been going on far too long .While press conferences are important in giving information on construction projects,over coming the lack of financial donors big and small seems to be difficult to solve.The easy way out is to wait until 2021 when Rutgers gets full funding.What isn't known will be the amount of unpaid obligations that have to be paid prior to starting new projects.

I agree with much of what you say, but I don't think we should take the easy way out.

How many Rutgers fans post on this board?

It has to be in the thousands.

I don't mean to tell others how to spend their $, but if we all just donated $25 (and some can give a little more) to SOMETHING THAT WE ALL LOVE AND ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT, we could get A LOT closer to 10,000 than we are at 2,000 today!

I humbly suggest...
Let's not focus on reaching the ultimate goal - $100,000,000.

Let's focus on getting to 10,000 donors!

No reason in the world we cannot do THAT!

Go RU!

 

[PiscatawayMike]

I'm one of the 2,000... and, hopefully, one of the 10,000 in the near future.

 

[RU85inFla]

This post is sad. Hobbs is looking for 10,000 people to give $2,000-$3,000. He is not looking for $25 so stop asking go that.

Now if you want to give $25 per month for the next five years, then that's a start. $25 a month isn't gonna kill anybody. No excuses for not donating $2-3 k to help the athletes. Hobbs and Sara are making it real painless. It's gonna be a huge embarrassment when they announce they can't build everything because of lack of funds.

 

[RUonBrain]

This post is sad. Hobbs is looking for 10,000 people to give $2,000-$3,000. He is not looking for $25 so stop asking go that.

Now if you want to give $25 per month for the next five years, then that's a start. $25 a month isn't gonna kill anybody. No excuses for not donating $2-3 k to help the athletes. Hobbs and Sara are making it real painless. It's gonna be a huge embarrassment when they announce they can't build everything because of lack of funds.

What is sad is we only have 2000 contributors.

If someone gives $25, that is a start, and maybe they will give more in the future when they can.

Plus once someone contributes the 1st time, the more likely it is they will contribute again.

And I am not asking for only $25.
I am asking for whatever people can afford to give.

(I agree with you; we also need people to donate in the 1000's of $$.)

 

[RU85inFla]

What is sad is we only have 2000 contributors.

If someone gives $25, that is a start, and maybe they will give more in the future when they can.

Plus once someone contributes the 1st time, the more likely it is they will contribute again.

And I am not asking for only $25.
I am asking for whatever people can afford to give.

(I agree with you; we also need people to donate in the 1000's of $$.)

You are talking like $25 bucks is some huge amount. All I am saying is bullshit. If my 26 or 23 year old said they didn't have $25 bucks a month to donate to their colleges I would say bullshit. It's 2 lunches a month.

 

[biazza38]

We really are such a self loathing fan base. The young alumni in particular. Half the schools in our conference could do this in a few months

 

[RUJMM78]

We really are such a self loathing fan base. The young alumni in particular. Half the schools in our conference could do this in a few months

If there was a will, this discussion would not be happening similar to waiting 27 years without 1 NCAA bid.Status quo action over decades has led to where Rutgers is presently situated at the bottom of the B1G for most teams.Hobbs is trying to make up for lost time and needs to be applauded for the effort.

 

[PiscatawayMike]

Rutgers alums must examine the reasons why they need to donate, but instead immediately come up with excuses why they don't. When Hobbs and Co. find an effective way to convince Rutgers alums that this campaign is ultra important, the number of supporters of the B1G Build Fund will rise. Not an easy task, to say the least.

 

[RU85inFla]

I didn't know Rutgers grads were all on Obamacare.

 

[PiscatawayMike]

I didn't know Rutgers grads were all on Obamacare.

Unfortunately, when it comes to RU athletics, they're on Idontcare.

 

[chrisru99]

I'm glad many are fed up with the horrible showing that only 2000 individual donors have cared enough about are BIG future. In the past many of the non donors would just show up to threads like this and blast the ones asking begging for others to step up. Hobbs is begging for more people to care about RU that's what I got from that update. He basically said this would be far more along at other schools in our conference.

 

[ru66]

I made 3 donations to the fund--all those excuses about waiting , posted by some on this board are now bogus--step up and give or remain silent about RU sports

 

[S_Janowski]

This post is sad. Hobbs is looking for 10,000 people to give $2,000-$3,000. He is not looking for $25 so stop asking go that.

Now if you want to give $25 per month for the next five years, then that's a start. $25 a month isn't gonna kill anybody. No excuses for not donating $2-3 k to help the athletes. Hobbs and Sara are making it real painless. It's gonna be a huge embarrassment when they announce they can't build everything because of lack of funds.

Lol dude get a clue on how these things work. Hobbs will not be announcing that they can't build everything. We're about a year through the campaign and have raised about $46 million ($71 total with the $25 million in tax money). This was an unprecedented campaign and anyone who thought we would raise over $100 million in less than 3 years is living in a fantasy world.

The $100 million is not going to be met by 10K people giving 2-3K. A large bulk of the funds will be raised from the mega donors and corporate sponsors,which Hobbs is still working on.

Is the 2K number low and disappointing? Yea I would say so considering the size of our alumni base. But the results after just 1 year of the campaign have been incredible especially after considering nothing like this has been done before by Athletics at RU.

 

[RU85inFla]

Lol dude get a clue on how these things work. Hobbs will not be announcing that they can't build everything. We're about a year through the campaign and have raised about $46 million ($71 total with the $25 million in tax money). This was an unprecedented campaign and anyone who thought we would raise over $100 million in less than 3 years is living in a fantasy world.

The $100 million is not going to be met by 10K people giving 2-3K. A large bulk of the funds will be raised from the mega donors and corporate sponsors,which Hobbs is still working on.

Is the 2K number low and disappointing? Yea I would say so considering the size of our alumni base. But the results after just 1 year of the campaign have been incredible especially after considering nothing like this has been done before by Athletics at RU.

You pompass ass. Listen to Hobbs and you will realize that everything you wrote is incorrect.

 

[RV-GORU]

Brain - I am one of the 2000 and will donate again. Maybe if you provide a link to the fund you may get some people who will donate immediately.

 

[fdodichcpa]

Today, Pat Hobbs said 2,000 people have already donated to the B1G Build Fund, but he wants to get that # up to 10,000.

For a school as large as RU, I believe 10,000 should be an attainable #.

I know the majority of $ will come from the higher end donors, but every $1 counts, and even if you give $25, you are 1 of the 10,000!

I also know many, many people here contribute to RU in other ways besides this fund. That is great!

For this specific fund, the more donors we have, the more momentum we can generate, which Hobbs can use to further strengthen his pitch to others in order to close the deal.


I ask that anyone who has contributed to making this project a reality to please post here and say you are 1 of the 10,000.

(I don't care if your pledge was $25, $50, $100, $150, $200, $250, $500, $750, $1,000, $2,500, $5,000, $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, $1,000,000...)

If you contributed something to this specific fund, you should take pride knowing you helped build it.

When you drive by the facility in 2019, you can say to yourself, "I helped make that happen!"


I joined the 10,000 last December.
Who else is part of the 10,000?

(If you are not, just fire off $25 or $50 to the fund so we can at least reach 10,000!)


Thanks!
Go RU!

I'm one of the 10,000

 

[biazza38]

I'm sure Hobbs has a list of top RU CEO's, but I feel like previous administrations did not build those relationships too well. We have as many Fortune 500 CEO's as anyone else out there. We have to keep them involved.

 

[S_Janowski]

You pompass ass. Listen to Hobbs and you will realize that everything you wrote is incorrect.

You're a real dodo.

Hobbs never said he's looking for 10K people to donate 2-3K. He also would never stick his nose up at a $25 donation from someone (funny you're calling me the "pompass ass" though).

You have zero clue how these things work.

 

[RUonBrain]

Brain - I am one of the 2000 and will donate again. Maybe if you provide a link to the fund you may get some people who will donate immediately.

How do I do that?

I copied a link, but I don't know how to edit it's title, so I deleted it.

TIA

 

[PiscatawayMike]

How do I do that?

I copied a link, but I don't know how to edit it's title, so I deleted it.

TIA

To donate, click the link below and enter your donation in the Big Ten Build Fund box.

https://securelb.imodules.com/s/896...9.240.241.242.243.244.245.246.1289.831&sort=1

 

[sct1111]

Make season tickets include a mandatory Big Build gift of 25 bucks. There is your 10,000 donors. That's a quarter of a million dollars right there.

 

[chrisru99]

Make season tickets include a mandatory Big Build gift of 25 bucks. There is your 10,000 donors. That's a quarter of a million dollars right there.

That's an excellent idea BUT can you imagine the uproar on these boards by some complaining about that.

 

[TDIrish27]

I think if you do that all you do is alienate people for very little return.

$ 250,000 is a drop in the bucket relative to the final number needed and you'll get a million dollars worth of bad vibe if you do that IMO.

I've lived in NJ 30 years and have never figured out why this has been such an issue here at Rutgers given the size of the alumni base locally.

 

[Scarlet83]

I have donated a few times and will continue to donate because I love Rutgers.

I will donate significantly more when I hear that the Athletic Department promises to not schedule home games away from our campus without getting the same consideration from the other team (Maryland in football, Wisconsin in hoops). Let's use OUR facilities on OUR campus for OUR home field advantage. I love OUR campus. Make our campus the place to be for B1G sports!

 

[RUshore99]

I've donated a few times at this point to the build fund.

What has me perplexed, more than the general low number of total donors to the cause, is that the football season priority point parking requirements have not moved the number beyond 2k. If you think about it, we must have more than 2k donors that have a donation requirement tied to maintaining their parking spot in the top 5 fb lots. If all fb parking renewal donations were directed by the season ticket holder to the B1G build we would move the needle right there.

I've always taken direction from the University on where they felt my money could make the greatest impact. Examples through the years include fb stadium expansion fund, RAC fund, B1G build. Maybe I'm in the minority with this approach?

The other issue is obviously low engagement from the masses of alumni. I'm not sure anything short of a deep NCAA tournament run, a NY6 bowl appearance and some sustained sucess...changes that. A majority of alums do not pay attention to what is going on at Rutgers unless prompted by others or the media, due to a major news or sports event. We need a breakthrough in hoops or fb in the next 4 years to propel the ambitious facilities master plan.

 

[ColonelRutgers]

I have donated a few times and will continue to donate because I love Rutgers.

I will donate significantly more when I hear that the Athletic Department promises to not schedule home games away from our campus without getting the same consideration from the other team (Maryland in football, Wisconsin in hoops). Let's use OUR facilities on OUR campus for OUR home field advantage. I love OUR campus. Make our campus the place to be for B1G sports!

Have no idea what one has to do with the other. If you want our teams to compete, you donate more toward this fund. The amount of excuses and justifications Rutgers fans can come up with to not give (or give more in this case) is maddening. We may have the best AD and Deputy AD in place ever and you are essentially trying to punish them through some invisible campaign. I hate moving the games too, but come on.

It's your money, you can do what you want and not my place to tell anyone how to spend it but the excuses and the us (fans) vs. them (Rutgers Administration) mentality has to stop if we are ever going to be successful. WE need to unite to get this done.

 

[RUJMM78]

Have no idea what one has to do with the other. If you want our teams to compete, you donate more toward this fund. The amount of excuses and justifications Rutgers fans can come up with to not give (or give more in this case) is maddening. We may have the best AD and Deputy AD in place ever and you are essentially trying to punish them through some invisible campaign. I hate moving the games too, but come on.

It's your money, you can do what you want and not my place to tell anyone how to spend it but the excuses and the us (fans) vs. them (Rutgers Administration) mentality has to stop if we are ever going to be successful. WE need to unite to get this done.

Excuses are easy to make but contributing is more difficult when so few people care.The end result is more losing ,despair and finger pointing.Status quo always is the easy way out along with kicking the problem down the road to 2021.

 

[Scarlet83]

Colonel Rutgers, I appreciate your thoughts on this and I understand your point. In fact, I am likely to sign up as a B1G build captain, since I think just about every alum and season ticket holder should do their best to gift to Rutgers.

Some more detail on my thoughts. Everyone has their own financial obligations and their own calculus for gifting. Gifting and spending doesn't happen in a vacuum. Personally, I am in my last year of four consecutive years of having 3 kids in undergrad or graduate college each of those years. I am helping two family members with their college costs. I give to Rutgers and B1G build what I can now, and I will always give to Rutgers. This is important to me.

I am seriously concerned that we will be playing more games in the future away from our campus, and I believe that to be a mistake. There is no place better on earth than our campus on game day. My opinion since 1979. I would be motivated to give more, until it hurts (extra dollars) and then also divert some dollars from gifting I make to other charities if I knew that this Yankee Stadium deal ends now. This is also important to me.

 

[RU85inFla]

You're a real dodo.

Hobbs never said he's looking for 10K people to donate 2-3K. He also would never stick his nose up at a $25 donation from someone (funny you're calling me the "pompass ass" though).

You have zero clue how these things work.

Listen dodo my experience is with my children's 2 schools where they raised multiples more on the backs of alumni and fans and not corporations. Since Hobbs said this would have been a wrap at other B1G schools already I believed him because I've seen it with my eyes at universities that have alumni that care.

Second, Hobbs listed a number of improvements that are above and beyond those listed in the Build Campaign and said he hopes to blow thru the $100 mill number. If not things will get cut. This is unfortunate.

You are correct Hobbs never said he wanted $2-3 k from the average Joe alum. $50 a month for 6 months is not much and is 3 grand. Do the math. He is asking 10,000 alum to make a 5 year commitment. This is what I know. If the alum are not committed, the corporate guys are not gonna jump on.

The guy is begging people to committ and people like you think he has3 years and $25 will help. Do yourself and the school a favor and stop spouting that loser mentality shit around. The AD is calling you out and you are still making excuses why not to contribute. Sad.