OT: Big Time Donors- Rutgers Needs One / Needs Us All

[MrsScrew]

Thanks for the reply! Wow-that's disheartening to read/see.

Creative Artists Agency has a thing where you can buy a night (for like $50K) and have a celebrity chef (such as MB) cook for you and your friends at a place somewhere in NYC. I tried to see if they could get me a quote of what it would cost for MB to host a tailgate at a game this fall and got no response back. Needless to say I would think the info above lets me know why I wasn't responded to.

I tried to get him to come to a tailgate to judge a chili contest. not even cook. made a DVD of tailgate photos, made contact with his assistant, went into Manhattan and dropped off the DVD, actually ran into him on the street and talked to him. He was not receptive at all.

 

[Jim_from_RU]

I tried to get him to come to a tailgate to judge a chili contest. not even cook. made a DVD of tailgate photos, made contact with his assistant, went into Manhattan and dropped off the DVD, actually ran into him on the street and talked to him. He was not receptive at all.

And I imagine his excuse would be "Rutgers didn't treat me well". :angry:

 

[chrisru99]

You don't have the time to become a BUILD Captain yet you have the time to respond to every single thread about fundraising and sometime thread's that aren't even about fundraising to b*tch and moan.

You're way worse than a broken record. If you spent 1/10th the time you spent b*tching on becoming a captain and recruiting others to donate you would have ample time.

You want to bring up Penn State? I'm sure they would have more than 25 BUILD Captains right now which is what we have. So you're part of the problem that you keep constantly b*tching about.

I post from work like every other person here does.

 

[DJ Spanky]

Unbelievable.

I know. $9 for that???

 

[S_Janowski]

I post from work like every other person here does.

So you can't become a BUILD captain because of work but you're able to spend time at work making post after post b*tching about the campaign and how The Rutgers fanbase sucks.

Makes a lot of sense.

 

[DJ Spanky]

So you can't become a BUILD captain because of work but you're able to spend time at work making post after post b*tching about the campaign and how The Rutgers fanbase sucks.

Makes a lot of sense.

Just as long as he doesn't drop his phone in the hot oil deep fryer.

 

[miketd1]

He was probably the guy on the floor everyone was always mad at for burning stuff in the communal kitchen

 

[AdamsGarden]

Tried to follow your post; little jumbled, so forgive me if I am off base. You make the point that RU needs to make sure it hires the “right people at the RU Foundation”. You then go on to cite – seemingly as examples of RU’s failure to hire “the right people in the RU Foundation” two people who do not, in fact, work for the RU foundation. One was a story about career services representatives and the other was a alumni association representative. Not excusing their lack of knowledge or their behavior at all. But your example makes as much sense as calling out the Dean Staffuer of Mason Gross be held accountable for the food sucking at Brower. Sure, I guess it affects him. But he has zero influence over that realm. Back to what I think your point was: the RU Foundation has zero impact over alumni relations or career services hiring practices or culture.

It all starts, likely with how one is treated upon entrance through graduation and then alumnus. I have discussed all of my bad experiences often only to a belittlerd, criticized and perhaps even banned at one point. Though it seems from posters here that much has improved (I was also in a weed put program) since I've graduated) since I've graduated. Thats all positive news. However Rutgers, as the state U in about the most expensive state there, also faces hurdles in that some wind up (some transferring back from other schools with great spprts programs-and even Ivy league schools) at RU due to finances-the R isn't their top choice.

The feedback I have received, re above, (once by a bad RAA employee) is that they did not feel they were treated well as undergrads/alumni.

The University also needs to hire (and traning if necessary) the right employees for the Rutgers Foundation. Meeting reps who were just recentv undergrads at the January 2016 RFU job fair (BTW most of the elements of that fair were recommended by yours truly to Richard White of former staff 5-10 years ago) was really annoying and upsetting. They knew nothing about much inc our top alumni, history, yada. (BTW had to inform career services staff thatv I parked wrong because "my" yellow lot (just outsde the Werblin Center here was) was not the one at therv RAC where tney wanted us to park!

I had an RAA exec in an MBA marketing class wsho thought her poop didn't stink. She had to things her way. She wanted to meet for our group project at Winnants Hall on a Saturday. Some guy walks into our room off the street-God knows who?-and shes real nasty to him. How did she know he wasn't some billionaire (on that note while at UNC waiting on the student line for tickets-I was told that one guy that wentv to the entrance was a oil tycoon-I think the NAFTA guy).

Nowadays still have qualms. From what u R describing Mo the person who #1` at what you are referring to coincidentally
was and is the boyfriend of RU's #3 or #4 I believe. He runs our tailgate and is the undergraduate and top friends with popular posters here.

He bleeds Scarlet (word was he didn't want the position unless he could keep tailgating though he was then out of work with kids. 1st tailgater ever at a home B1G game. He's smart, an attorney by trade (helps with the contract aspect) and a good guy. He, like others here, should be on staff-somewhere.

That said as of last year he seems utterly out of whack so to say, what needs to be done to land those big bucks. I've had a similar comment/complaint from another of the friends' friend in "the crew". I do know others who've applied to the Foundation only to be told to get a fundraising background/class. That was waived here.

I thnk the leaders here need a background as: 1)Rutgers alum; 2)season ticketholders; 3)fan club members (if am acquainted with 3) top donors from my former Court Club membership-one later as an adjunct prof).

 

[RutgersMO]

Hey OP... at some point you have to ask yourself why people are criticizing you. I have no skin in the game of who works for Rutgers in these matters and I can tell you that you are not advancing your position here.

In your OP you mentioned Phil Knight as an example.

Nike's world HQ is in Beaverton, Oregon and Phil Knight probably lives close by.. The sporting events at Oregon are probably the biggest things going on in that state on any given Saturday. Sports is Phil Knight's passion and his business. Oregon has its own major network television stations (NJ's are all in NY and PA). Oregon has been in a major conference for a long time.

Phil Knight recently donated $400M to Stanford. Ask yourself why.

And all that said, Oregon rise in donations did not begin until 1996 or so. Get out of your own head and READ THIS.

Rutgers has many disadvantages compared to this example.

I think we can get there. While I am sure the fundraising staff can probably do better you have to stop blaming them and the famous RU Screw. If a huge Big Time donor is out there, it will happen on his or her own time for his or her own reasons. All Rutgers need do is be sure to show they can spend money wisely...

...but as I said above.. Rutgers has many disadvantages. Here are a couple:

- People flee New Jersey (immigrants and job-hoppers have kept the population roughly static, but many people leave the state).
- The local TV networks mostly cover happenings at the State U only when there is a fire or murder or a scandal.. the stuff Rutgers can be most proud of never makes the evening news.
- NJ is not the nicest place on earth. That is speed of life here and the competition has created a "Jersey Attitude" that filters into everything.. driving on roads, encounters with public servants and administrators... and the cost of doing business.. I think that is the origin of the Ru Screw. It is juts New Jersey people being "Jersey". And it is just a convenient excuse for those who do not want to donate. If the were truly motivated to donate for their own reasons then it wouldn't matter if some administrator gave them a hard time about changing their majors.

If some potential major donors out there want to build something at their State U then they will do so. I doubt very much that Rutgers employees have prevented this. But certainly the AD gaffs in recent years has not helped... but that has nothing to do with handling the donors/ticket-holders.

Hey Good Ol

I didn't respond to the first response to my thread....it was hard reading / understanding, but I didn't want to dampen his spirits.

As for Nike- I live half time in Oregon (Newberg) near Portland, Beaverton etc. Our next door neigbors are both U of O grads... and always support the Ducks. Living in close promixity to Ken Austin, who was the first Oregon State mascot (Beaver), a major contributor at OSU & founder - former president of A-dec dental equipment.

I didn't take the criticisms posted in this thread personally, because we've sorta lost our compass on this one- and they critiques were aimed at another posters writing style.

I asked if Mark Ecko etc. was an investor in our program (and parenthetically, if not why not). Also mentioned two major RU grads who to my knowledge are not conrtributors ( I have no inside sources now....since Cal 66 passed).

The question I'm asking is WHY NOT? Who else do we have that has the wheels to get this thing to the next level....while not forgetting that ALL of us must contribute.

If you want to carry this conversation offline contact me at rutgersmo at roadrunner dot com

Thanks

MO

 

[chrisru99]

So you can't become a BUILD captain because of work but you're able to spend time at work making post after post b*tching about the campaign and how The Rutgers fanbase sucks.

Makes a lot of sense.

Yes. I'm not bitching at all everything I said is true. The numbers don't lie.

 

[leonh71]

While ash catch'ems delivery could be improved, he does have a point. I was at a meet-and-greet fundraiser, and I couldn't believe the people I talked to had jobs at the foundation.

Ok, it's fine if you don't know anything about football... It's not a requirement of the job. But don't tell me that, and then immediately follow it with "Rutgers is going to get destroyed in the Big Ten. Wait till Michigan comes here."

WTF? Even if you believe that, why tell that to a donor you just met?

That's bordering on unbelievable that someone would be so thoughtless as to state that at a fundraiser of all things.

 

[DanceAppreciationTA]

All it takes is one big donor...I almost wanna say forget about trying to convince alumni who havent donated (except maybe the older ones who have $$ haha) and spend resources on fostering traditions and culture at RU for the current students

 

[DanceAppreciationTA]

http://www.alumni.rutgers.edu/s/896/index.aspx?sid=896&gid=1&pgid=430

That is some pretty respectable alumni right there...hit up all the living ones and you could find a good amount of $$ AND for the ones that don't donate you can figure out what went wrong...was it even something RU did?

 

[DanceAppreciationTA]

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/20..._governors_actresses_and_celebrity_chefs.html

Interesting...David Stern has donated almost half a million dollars...that's impressive

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

My girlfriend was just out in Ann Arbor where her Michigan grad daughter is a professor and her husband is a grad as well. They have alumni who swoop in to visit them every weekend, football weekends or not, to be near the place they love. It is a special place. We don't have that here for a variety of reasons. And they all drop big coin on the program.When they need something paid for it usually happens. The point is there is no begging and there is no wondering where and when the cash will come from. We deal with a lot of obstacles and always will and I am happy to be where we are but we all know we could do better if that type of Midwestern mentality existed here.

 

[rurichdog]

We don't donate to State U, but we have bitchin' cars, take expensive weekends down the shore, blow wads of cash in AC & NYC, have great high schools with the requisite high taxes, cool jet skis, etc.