Julie sez DONORS will be KEY

[rutgersal]

At least getting robbed by Optimum on a monthly basis is worth something. In her interview with Cable News 12, Rutgers AD said that Donors would be key to raising funds for Rutgers new basketball facility. She seemed adamant about this point. This is our opportunity to step up to the plate.

- UConn donors got it done
- Syracuse donors got it done
- Villanova donors got it done

Those fanbases are a FRACTION of what ours is. They have bills, kids, and other expenses too. I HOPE we get it done. I will do my part, and I hope others will do the same. You can't complain about Rutgers basketball and then not seize the opportunity to make it better.

We are also going to need help from football fans, as basketball doesn't have as many fans. It's important for football fans to pitch in, as the rebuilt racmosphere will help sell football recruits, just as it did back in the day. A good bb game enhances football recruiting weekends immeasurably.

 

[Knight_Light]

Originally posted by rutgersal:
At least getting robbed by Optimum on a monthly basis is worth something. In her interview with Cable News 12, Rutgers AD said that Donors would be key to raising funds for Rutgers new basketball facility. She seemed adamant about this point. This is our opportunity to step up to the plate.

- UConn donors got it done
- Syracuse donors got it done
- Villanova donors got it done

Those fanbases are a FRACTION of what ours is. They have bills, kids, and other expenses too. I HOPE we get it done. I will do my part, and I hope others will do the same. You can't complain about Rutgers basketball and then not seize the opportunity to make it better.

We are also going to need help from football fans, as basketball doesn't have as many fans. It's important for football fans to pitch in, as the rebuilt racmosphere will help sell football recruits, just as it did back in the day. A good bb game enhances football recruiting weekends immeasurably.

What about much smaller alumni bases and/or programs who did the same as UCONN, CUSE and NOVA (built/building new basketball practice facilities with private donations)

Univ of Houston's new Basketball Facility built with private donations
http://www.uhcougars.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/022614aaa.html

East Carolina building new basketball practice facility from private donations
http://www.ecupirates.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/083013aaa.html

Plenty of other schools with less than half of the support/tradition of UCONN, SYRACUSE or NOVA have all done the same (built new basketball practice facilities with just donations from their supporters).

 

[Local Shill]

Originally posted by rutgersal:


We are also going to need help from football fans, as basketball doesn't have as many fans. It's important for football fans to pitch in, as the rebuilt racmosphere will help sell football recruits, just as it did back in the day. A good bb game enhances football recruiting weekends immeasurably.

This paragraph is relevant.

Mentioning Sarah, UCon-vit or Villanoca really isn't....if RU accomplished anything close to that those places had (even if two have been caught cheating) fundraising would be much easier.

When you haven't won an NCAA Tournament game in 32 years, it's hard to get on the (remaining) fans' cases.

We're beyond starved for any taste of success.

 

[rutgersnyc]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie

All of this is nickel and dime stuff. You need to find the donor willing to put down several $100 million. Throw their name on everything. That is the only thing that will matter and turn this mess around. Even mid majors have more impressive corporate naming than Rutgers. It is a joke.

 

[bac2therac]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie


Al...its not going to be you or me or the far majority of poster on this board. Any facilities for basketball and other sports are going to come on the backs of big donors...I mean BIG donors. I really think that's why we aren't hearing the plan for public consumption until Julie feels the money is there to start with the projects. People keep saying that they will donate if they just hear a plan are missing the point. As Rutgersnyc just said that's nickel and dime stuff. The little guys can do their donating after the fact, every little bit will help but in the planning stages Julie needs BIG BIG money so it makes sense she is keeping plans away from the public for now

 

[Upstream]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie

Bac - A big donor would be great. But failing that, a couple thousand moderate donors also works. Instead of spending $4 per days ay Starbucks, donate it to Rutgers instead.
Posted from Rivals Mobile

 

[RU-ROCS]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie

Originally posted by Upstream:
Bac - A big donor would be great. But failing that, a couple thousand moderate donors also works. Instead of spending $4 per days ay Starbucks, donate it to Rutgers instead.
Posted from Rivals Mobile

+1. RU has been chasing the "Big Donors" since going big time, with almost nothing to show for it, except Greg Brown. This latest project may have to be funded, at least in significant part, with aggregating a bunch of donations in the thousands, not the millions.

 

[bac2therac]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie

I dont see that happening. ...sarah helped raise an incredible amount at Missouri. Ill trust what they are doing...also remember how incompetant prior ADS were

 

[ru66]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie


Bac---get your checkbook out

 

[bac2therac]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie


need people with big bucks to get the shovels in the ground, then the little guys like me kick in as we should

 

[mrslate]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie

Originally posted by bac2therac:
I dont see that happening. ...sarah helped raise an incredible amount at Missouri. Ill trust what they are doing...also remember how incompetant prior ADS were

Bac, I know you are a fan of JH, but if you are referring to TP, well, that is just a silly thing to say. And please learn to spell.

 

[ru66]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie

your plan sounds like pernetti's he got large commitments from some and went to the annual "normal" contributors for more

 

[bac2therac]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie


and TP didn't get enough for plans that were public...hundreds of plans laying around...and not one was yet picked as the final product

and TP blew that up..so blame him. If he had handled this properly he would still be here, the money he pledged would be here and maybe more and the shovels would be in the ground. That's his fault

 

[ru66]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie

hundreds of plans??? that's as untrue of a statement as the one you made on a previous post about never calling people names

 

[bac2therac]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie

Maybe hundreds is an exaggeration but Julie has said the office was full of different maps and renderings

 

[rutgersguy1]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie

Originally posted by RU-ROCS:

Originally posted by Upstream:
Bac - A big donor would be great. But failing that, a couple thousand moderate donors also works. Instead of spending $4 per days ay Starbucks, donate it to Rutgers instead.
Posted from Rivals Mobile

+1. RU has been chasing the "Big Donors" since going big time, with almost nothing to show for it, except Greg Brown. This latest project may have to be funded, at least in significant part, with aggregating a bunch of donations in the thousands, not the millions.

And they're going to have to keep chasing big ones. The needle on these type of large scale projects don't move on the back of small donations. You can talk about the arithmetic about it but it doesn't work like that in practice in the real world. It's moved on the back of 6 and 7 figure plus donations. I've posted about the Minnesota sports complex project and the football stadium.

They raised 70M in 10 months for the sports complex and like 40M of it came in 3 donations. 25M from Land O Lakes and 9M and 6M from 2 alums. They raised 80M+ and were still trying to fundraise beyond that a few years ago for the football stadium and that was from about 2000 donations so an average of 40K per donation and an average likely lifted greatly by a few 6 and 7 figure donations.

So you can say if such and such many people just donated a few buck here and there or hundreds of dollars we'd have this much but it never works like that. Projects like the renovation of the women's field hockey team lockerroom for 10K or RU vision for 30K yes you can make a difference but for things that cost in the 10s of millions of dollars it's not going to move the needle. It doesn't mean you shouldn't donate those hundreds or even thousands of dollars but that's not really what's going to get these large scale projects done.

To me this will likely get done on the back of AD revenue bonds but that will only happen when we start receiving a full share and greatly reduced the subsidy. If they can lure some big whales to the AD they'll have done something no other AD has been able to do consistently here. I'm hopeful but I'm gonna be realistic about it. It's always been about expanding the pool of donors for me and I've repeated it here many times. I don't know how much more blood you can grind out of the existing stone. We need many new donors like the Towers to really make a dent through private donations. How far we can get with new donors and previously disinterested alums is the key.

This post was edited on 3/30 9:56 AM by rutgersguy1

 

[bac2therac]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie


Here are the links to the vids from the News 12 interview so people can hear exactly what she said...

note the big donors are going to play a huge factor in this...she will discuss her plan with them and they must take ownership of it with RU, if they don't like that plan then she and her team will come up with a plan that fits THEM.


http://newjersey.news12.com/multimedia/interview-rutgers-athletic-director-julie-hermann-1.10135212


Unfortunately I think there are not many big time donors for basketball since the fanbase has been depleted. I think they will end up searching for those non basketball donors or coroporate donors to help

 

[rutgersguy1]

Re: Get off your ass, Julie

Originally posted by bac2therac:

Unfortunately I think there are not many big time donors for basketball since the fanbase has been depleted. I think they will end up searching for those non basketball donors or coroporate donors to help

Well I don't think that necessarily has to be the death knell. Like I said it's likely to be new donors or previously disinterested donors. That applies from the basketball program, to the AD, to the school in general. Even if you're a fan of another sport it can be illustrated how the 2 pillars (football/MBB) being strong can help your particular program and all the other programs of the athletic department. Also I've pointed about the Murray State alum in Louisville that donated 5M to their soccer complex at Louisville and he wasn't an alum or a fan of soccer before that. So it can be done but it's difficult and takes time to cultivate and foster that kind of donation from previously disconnected.

It's why I give lots of leeway in time tables because I see how hard it has been for previous ADs and how hard it will be for the current AD. The AD who really moves the needle here in private donations consistently will be the first.

This post was edited on 3/30 10:55 AM by rutgersguy1

 

[higgins3]

I have confidence in JH. "summer-plan. many conversations" for donors""Absolutely need and have to get something done"

 

[Section114]

I just donated.... the first brick can be laid. Whose got the next brick(s)? Come on people!