Big Ten Build Fund Progress
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90% contribute zilch. But they want you to come to their fundraisers...
Let's look for Steve Beauharnis on that list. I'm sure we'll find him after his temper tantrum last week.
Did you help the university make money? You didn't put in sweat equity for the school. You did it for yourself. They get scholarships from other schools and they decided to come here. Please stop with the free tuition argument. It's really stupid.
C Viv is on the list for 1000-5000. I'm glad she's on the list and give her credit for it when so many others aren't.
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I got scholarships from other schools and decided to go to Rutgers.
Your argument does not hold water.
They did it for themselves to keep playing football and to go to school for free. Best deal going.
As a matter of fact, I did.
I got scholarships from other schools and decided to go to Rutgers.
Your argument does not hold water.
They did it for themselves to keep playing football and to go to school for free. Best deal going.
Props to Lorenzo (Lonzo?) Ball as well.
He won me over when I saw he pledged $1-$999 to the Build Fund.
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How did you help Rutgers make money? so a 5 star kid picks RU over Mich, do you think RU is doing the kid a favor or the other way around?
You sound like a child. .We have not had a 5 star "kid" come to RU and go to the NFL. Your premise is a false one. Explain to me how much money one football player "makes" for dear old Rutgers. Please show your complete work with a balance sheet of expenses and how that player directly contributed to revenue.
Do you buy football tickets to see the band? Did Adidas sign Rutgers because of the academics? But you made money for the school right?
Last time I checked nobody is "making money" for Rutgers Athletics. The Athletic Department does not turn a profit but runs a deficit which is exactly why we need donations from everyone from the alum making 50K a year, to the Millionaire CEO to all of our Letterwinners.
Nobody should be excused from donating, espcially Althetes that have reaped the benefits of previous donors and come back to campus post graduation and use the facilities and ask for donations to their own charities from the RU community.
When I joined, via the website, I called and complained about how confusing it was for me, and was told others have voiced the same concern, and it was being addressed.
It's a basic question, do you think the school is taking of advantage of the kids or the kids taking advantage of the school? Let me remind you that we are raising money to improve facilities to be on par with other schools. That means these kids are picking to come to a school with lesser facilities and an unproven staff.
For those of you confused about donating or want to donate each of the captains has their own page where you just click on "donate" and it takes you directly to the page for you to fill out your info. You can pledge as little as $4.17/month or, if you don't want to commit to a pledge you can simply choose to make a one time donation.
https://rb1gbuildcaptains.com/campaigns/captain-margaret-sherman#/
https://rb1gbuildcaptains.com/campaigns/captain-margaret-sherman#/
Updated today, 27 April
$72,313,910 on 2,524 donors. An increase of $1,193,949 on 303 new donors.
$72,313,910 on 2,524 donors. An increase of $1,193,949 on 303 new donors.
April was a good month .. need to continue to see the number of donors increase. Only 2,500 is still not acceptable to me and many others. We have more season ticket accounts than that, a multiple of that number of people on this board daily, etc.
Were they asking about this during renewal process? My rep only pushed the ticket for vets.
My rep asked if I'd like to give to BTB and the tickets for vets when he called me to renew.
Updated as of today. It's only up ~$300k in two months time. That's not gonna get it done.
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That probably includes all of contributions by football season ticket holders who made donations to secure their preferred lots. Ouch.
I mean honestly how much can the average person donate. 300k in a month is a hell of a lot of money for a bunch of middle class people. We simply need more big donors. Is JnJ on that list? You know the largest and most profitable pharmaceutical company in the world whose headquarters are literally 100 feet from Old Queens? What about David Stern. He's worth 30-40 million.
We need those types of donors.
Donations to secure preferred lots did not have to be directed to the B1G Build Fund. They could have gone to any of the following (click link).
https://securelb.imodules.com/s/896...9.240.241.242.243.244.245.246.1289.831&sort=1
Ticket reps were pushing donated tickets for military game, not B1G build fund during renewals. At least in my personal experience. I think that's a worthy cause on its own, but every single ticket holder account should have at the very least made a donation at some point towards the B1G Build. I'm stopping myself short of saying it should be mandatory. By looking at the numbers, I would guess we don't even have half the season ticket holder accounts donated toward the Build Fund.
That's a whopping 12 cents a year per alum for 5 years. You need a better excuse.
We need both many, many more small monthly donors, along with (many) big donors writing nice checks
We only have 2,000 donors compared to 400,000 alumni. The people who are donating are donating a good amount of money. Many of our alumni don't care about football or don't care to donate.
Agreed but you can't tell me have 398,000 alumni that don't give a damm about athletics.
Apparently not enough to donate. They care when Rutgers is good maybe.
How many of those alumni we're at rutgers when our football team was good? Not many.
Virtually none. Wake Forest, Vanderbilt, TCU, Baylor, Northwestern etc all have similar circumstances but their alum were proud to go there and donate. Nothing else.
Plenty of public school examples. Rutgers alumni just have little to no pride in the school. The AD begs and the alumni tighten the grip on their wallet.
What public school with the athletic history similar to ours? What type of donations do Iowa State or Oregon State get? Washington State? Temple?
