It’s only a slap in the face to Matt Campbell if he considers it a slap in the face.
I suspect his priorities are elsewhere.
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I suspect his priorities are elsewhere.
Yep. It isnt Pollard's job to walk in and offer a salary or to get to a certain place on the coach salary rankings.
His job is to talk with Campbell and find out what makes him and his family happy here. If that's money, then do that. If that's money for assistants, do that. If that's prioritizing a certain facility improvement, do that. So far, money for himself hasnt seemed to be his primary motivator.
Other than to retain CMC and help fund continued growth and sustainable success. If non-donors weren’t incentivized this FB season, what will do it?
There are already increasing “perks” at each giving level. What are we talking about that could be cost neutral or very small?
All new donors get a 2022 calendar featuring JP in his swimsuit.
It will take greater financial commitment for ISU fans and alumni, along with some magic from JP.
I have talked about this in an older thread. When A&M was in the B12, they started a Century Club encouraging all alumni to donate $100 to the AD. It worked, many did and I swear 1/4 of the cars I would se in Houston had their CC sticker. We need a similar club and reach out to casual fans.
Maybe. But it’s also just as likely that some day, Matt Campbell is having a bad day and he looks around and sees that 2/3 of the Big 12 is making more money than him and it frustrates him. We know he is different but he’s not a robot. And 99.999% of people aren’t going to turn down a raise they feel they are deserved.
All that said, I trust JP to do his job and get Campbell what he needs.
You have to make sure you are incentivizing small donors particularly those that maybe can’t go to games. Making them understand what their even small contribution adds. Say you get 50,000 people to donate $50. That’s $2,500,000 right there. I don’t think we are properly recruiting those types. When people can’t hit the $100 mark which is the lowest category they just don’t donate because they don’t understand how that helps.
We want to encourage current donors to do more but the big gains are going to be getting a lot more small donors.
Gotcha. When I read comments on incentivizing new donors, I got the impression that they needed to get something in return. I completely agree that an educational campaign should be done to educate fans/alumni on the financial realities if competing and how every bit helps and how. Make everyone understand how they are truly/directly helping *their* AD and teams.
IIRC ISU has the lowest AD giving in the conference and likely ranks low versus P5. It get the challenges, small state, two schools, etc.; but trail schools in similar or worse situations. JP can’t just work magic. Donations and ticket sales have to increase.
Well I think you do have to provide something and that’s where you have to get creative. I think at minimum you need a tier that goes down to zero. That signifies any donation is welcome. Currently if you can’t do $100 it doesn’t seem like the AD wants your money.
Something you could do for that level is require it for the light brown football seats and maybe the corners in Hilton.
I’d also like to see more of a break based on donation level than just seating options. I don’t know what you can give people that is cheap but making sure people continue to grow their gifts.
I’d be curious to see the proportion of people who do donate and who don’t. I think that’s where we get hurt a lot as well as not having the big money donors. The middle group I think does a good job.
Isn't OU 0-whatever in the playoffs? Couple of those were a@@whoopins too. I wouldn't put them on that list just yet. But you're right about Bama, OSU and Clemson.
If they had apparel that was exclusive to donors it could do something. $100 gets a t-shirt, $250 gets a hoodie or t shirt/maybe 2 t shirts, $500 one of each and a hat. something like that, keep adding some stuff at each donor level. It doesn't cost that much to get a nice screen printing machine. Make these things in house and create some jobs while your at it.
Will just say, not made in house. Our AD needs to raise funds, not make Tshirts. When raising money you don’t cut major corners.
But the huge difference was Mt Union took the field with more talent than everyone else. They were Alabama of D3, heck they even better than that. So relatively speaking, Mt Union had 5 star talent at the D3 level. They had a lot of D1 transfers playing for them.
