Post by rfalum on Feb 16, 2024 18:18:44 GMT -5
They need to hire or appoint someone to work on NIL....
I told this story before but gonna tell it again because it truly shows just how inept or how little the college cares.....
One of my fellow soccer player passed away in 2021 (from class of 1990) around the same time a player from class of 2002 passed away. Just on a go fund me page we raised a quick $15K but we wanted something to last to make an impact on the soccer program (women and men) so we decided that we wanted to create an endowment for soccer.
We created a BOD had 18 members from various years, including some strong financial alum - we have conference call after conference call with various Marist Administration asking for help. They barely did anything - they sent us a spreadsheet of all Marist alum soccer players (60% of the contact info was bad). I asked for introductions to some high net alumni from the 70's and 80's and I was sent a list saying that these people we open to a conversation. I called the first three on list and non of them had any idea why I was calling and were not interested. I couldn't even get a virtual introduction from the college.
Also it was a year later that we found out that there was a family who sponsored a small soccer scholarship already - non of us knew about it, and the college never mentioned it. The big contribution from the school was "we can give out a small soccer ball to everyone who gives $1000 or up" - are you fucking kidding me.
After 4 months of this shit the momentum ended..... and no endowment.
Football has a successful $2M raise so it can be done. They just need someone who knows how to fund raise, can send clear message about what is needed and what X $ will mean to the program. At our level we are not talking $100K players we are talking about $5K-$10K per player that can probably make a big difference.
I am hoping that the "athletic study report" covered this.
Outside of the post card you just got for the general Marist fund - have any of you be approached about a specific team? All those successful years in the Red Fox club after the game was fund raising ever brought up? Had there ever been an auction to support a team?