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Tad calls out bigbang (and others)

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Bigbang:
One of the reasons I didn't donate to CU sports, is because I didn't like Mike Bohn. Likability matters, why should I write a check to a SOB.
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Tad:
I think there is a lot of people who like to point to a coach they like or don't like or an athletic director or an administrator as a reason for not being more involved. For us to be successful, that has to go away and the love for the university has to be the most important thing. I've been at other universities where it's like that and that's where we need to go.
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Besides just calling out everyone's favorite whipping boy - I think Tad has very concisely identified a big problem with a non-significant portion of CU boosters and/or potential boosters. There are too many who withhold support because they don't like X coach, they don't like how Y alumni (player or coach) is treated, they think Z administrator is awful. We won't get to next level unless this sort of **** stops.
 
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Bigbang:


Tad:


Besides just calling out everyone's favorite whipping boy - I think Tad has very concisely identified a big problem with a non-significant portion of CU boosters and/or potential boosters. There are too many who withhold support because they don't like X coach, they don't like how Y alumni (player or coach) is treated, they think Z administrator is awful. We won't get to next level unless this sort of **** stops.
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Then donate to the sport you do like, I heavily support basketball, beyond tickets i am not involved with football.
 
absinthe said:
Then donate to the sport you do like, I heavily support basketball, beyond tickets i am not involved with football.
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This is, IMO, an excellent option - support what you can, but don't say "**** you, I'm not doing jack **** until X is fired and/or you apologize and play nice with Y."
 
skibum said:
This is, IMO, an excellent option - support what you can, but don't say "**** you, I'm not doing jack **** until X is fired and/or you apologize and play nice with Y."
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9 out of 10 people who say **** like that won't donate afterwards either.
 
I'm with abs. Any more, I refuse to donate to the General Fund. I donate to the Basketball Excellence fund (Tad's discretionary spending account). I will donate toward a facilities project that has well-defined goals & objectives. I will donate to the scholarship fund or academic support. But I want to feel like I'm impacting something tangible when I give money. For example, if they want to buy new uniforms for the band then tell me. I might kick in a few ducats that I wouldn't otherwise donate. But don't rely on me taking it on my own initiative to call them up or go online to give because the mood happened to strike me that day. As a marketer and businessperson, the administration of the department and the donor solicitation programs offends me.
 
So when u donate, you can say specifically where u want it to go? I've only donated a few times and just sent it to the AD.
 
I encourage everybody to do what I do, and do the complete opposite of what BB2 says. Since I have started doing that my bank account has increased, my hair is getting thicker, my weight is down, my wife wants to have sex with me nonstop, and my teeth have never been whiter.
 
The people (*cough* bigbang *cough*) who say they refuse to donate because some administrator is not likeable have no intentions to donate. Saying someone isn't likeable is just a convenient excuse for not doing something they had no intention of doing in the first place.
 
Buffnik said:
I'm with abs. Any more, I refuse to donate to the General Fund. I donate to the Basketball Excellence fund (Tad's discretionary spending account). I will donate toward a facilities project that has well-defined goals & objectives. I will donate to the scholarship fund or academic support. But I want to feel like I'm impacting something tangible when I give money. For example, if they want to buy new uniforms for the band then tell me. I might kick in a few ducats that I wouldn't otherwise donate. But don't rely on me taking it on my own initiative to call them up or go online to give because the mood happened to strike me that day. As a marketer and businessperson, the administration of the department and the donor solicitation programs offends me.
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It's like the difference between spending charitably as you see fit, or getting taxed by the government so they can spend the money how they see fit...
 
Bigbang is too worried about walk ons and the spring game. I guess none of us work for our money either, what a douche.
 
SINKRATZ said:
The people (*cough* bigbang *cough*) who say they refuse to donate because some administrator is not likeable have no intentions to donate. Saying someone isn't likeable is just a convenient excuse for not doing something they had no intention of doing in the first place.
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To be fair someone who works at McDonalds isn't really in any position to be donating much, if any money
 
Thank god there are so many high paying jobs in the front range. With the thriving economy, there is no excuse around not having funds available to donate.
 
I hope to never see the day where an entire thread is dedicated to me being called out by a coach.
 
Well, as much as I agree with the tone of what Tad is saying, I don't think the AD does a particularly good job with conveying a message of what they want the funds for. Beyond that, they are completely unimaginative about encouraging donations. How hard would it be, for instance, to set giving levels? $100/Year, $250/Year, $500/Year, $1,000/Year, etc? Make it an expectation that once you graduate, you're expected to give back to the university in some fashion. It doesn't have to be the athletic department, but that can be one choice among many. Having some kid call me from the foundation a couple times a year under the pretense that he's "verifying my contact information" is absurd.
 
SINKRATZ said:
The people (*cough* bigbang *cough*) who say they refuse to donate because some administrator is not likeable have no intentions to donate. Saying someone isn't likeable is just a convenient excuse for not doing something they had no intention of doing in the first place.
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Reminds me of when people *boycott* pro sports teams because they "don't like the owner." It's just a fancy way of saying I don't want to financially support a lousy team. Other than someone like Marge Schott, no one is going to "boycott" an owner of a winning team.
 
fatbuff said:
I encourage everybody to do what I do, and do the complete opposite of what BB2 says. Since I have started doing that my bank account has increased, my hair is getting thicker, my weight is down, my wife wants to have sex with me nonstop, and my teeth have never been whiter.
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But are you still a fat SOB?
 
fatbuff said:
I encourage everybody to do what I do, and do the complete opposite of what BB2 says. Since I have started doing that my bank account has increased, my hair is getting thicker, my weight is down, my wife wants to have sex with me nonstop, and my teeth have never been whiter.
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What's your 40 time?
 
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