|
|
Post by cvtower on Jan 23, 2011 0:06:46 GMT -8
|
|
|
|
Post by mightymightyaztecs on Jan 23, 2011 0:34:48 GMT -8
That's why us fans need to do the part to pack the house. Especially at Qualcomm. Football fills the coffers.
|
|
|
|
Post by Village Aztec on Jan 23, 2011 1:28:31 GMT -8
All you guys expect us to win and recruit and you have no idea what we are up against. They just told you what I have posted many times. We don't have the money for Fishers replacement.
Everyone wants big time coaches and we are paying may be 1/3 of what other top 20 schools pay.
So now we have fan's, but these fan's are not paying what other fan's pay.
There will be no on campus football stadium until we get big time fan's to match the players.
So we have to out recruit other schools and there great facilities.
Talk to the fan's who travel with the football team and ask them about what they have seen on other campuses.
Saying something and backing it up are 2 diffident things. I'll never for get the post that Webber should open the purse strings. Like we have some hidden stash we are hiding.
There is a big difference in getting information from the internet and news papers and TV, and another thing about being on the campuses of big time schools.
Hell our President never made real money. I don't know why he was not taken away from us years ago.
Well our teams have delivered the goods, now our fans have to act like top 20 fans.
We are beating teams with sling shots.
|
|
|
|
Post by aztecalum on Jan 23, 2011 5:34:36 GMT -8
The first thing Sterk should do is fix the freaking website to allow online contributions to the Aztec Club. If you can purchase tickets online there is no excuse to have an online vehicle to collect contributions for out of towners and alumni now interested due to the great football and basketball seasons. This is basic stuff!
|
|
|
|
Post by Aztec89 on Jan 23, 2011 6:03:34 GMT -8
Steve Lappas is great. He speaks the truth. SDSU must capitalize on this season to aggressively raise ticket prices, and bring them in line with other "Top D-1 west coast programs". Especially with all the new fans who have for the first time been exposed to the great experience of going to a game at the V. Even with a 20-30 % ticket price increase, season seat sales will go up at least by 1,000. This could be used to increase the coaches salaries budget.
Also, I have long thought that old Peterson Gym needs to be razed, to build a state of the art Practice gym, that can also seat 3,500 or so, kind of a mini Jenny Craig Pavilion. The women could play there in front of their 800 person crowds.
|
|
|
|
Post by newyorker2586 on Jan 23, 2011 6:25:10 GMT -8
It comes down to fundraising. I know at my school since Lavs has got their, money has just poured into the program threw fundraising events and old alumni who had not donated in years. That is what must take place here. With where the program is now and hopefully the heights it will climb in next 3 months there will be money after the season that be reinvested.
|
|
|
|
Post by laaztec on Jan 23, 2011 8:10:41 GMT -8
That's why us fans need to do the part to pack the house. Especially at Qualcomm. Football fills the coffers. You are preaching to the choir here. |
|
|
|
Post by inocuace on Jan 23, 2011 8:35:07 GMT -8
The first thing Sterk should do is fix the freaking website to allow online contributions to the Aztec Club. If you can purchase tickets online there is no excuse to have an online vehicle to collect contributions for out of towners and alumni now interested due to the great football and basketball seasons. This is basic stuff! + one quintillion |
|
|
|
Post by Old School on Jan 23, 2011 8:41:24 GMT -8
 Oldie Out |
|
|
|
Post by aztecfanatic on Jan 23, 2011 8:42:10 GMT -8
This reminds of all the "there is no reason SDSU should not be a national power" statements often repeated on this message board. Tradition and money are gigantic parts of college sports; the Aztecs do not yet have the tradition (we are working on it though) and need to tap ALL of our resources for increased funding. We are doing well with what we have - hopefully our success will open up new and increased resources. All this pub can only help.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2011 8:54:39 GMT -8
boltsexpert should stick to pro sports.
|
|
|
|
Post by aztecfankrishnan on Jan 23, 2011 9:03:14 GMT -8
The first thing Sterk should do is fix the freaking website to allow online contributions to the Aztec Club. If you can purchase tickets online there is no excuse to have an online vehicle to collect contributions for out of towners and alumni now interested due to the great football and basketball seasons. This is basic stuff! I agree 100%. I get consistent emails from my political party asking me to donate to different causes every week. It's a very simple online process. There is no minimum. $20 here and there from hundreds to thousands of people can add up fast. With consistent "calls-to-action" like hey we need to charter a flight to Laramie, please donate with running totals I think would rally the boosters now and then. SDSU should have a website and email marketing campaign dedicated to donations. Maybe there are rules against it? Anyone know if other major programs do this? |
|
|
|
Post by monty on Jan 23, 2011 9:04:17 GMT -8
I mentioned it in a rambling post the other day: SDSU needs to knock down Petterson and put a new practice center/volleyball gym. And the days of being on the cheap in football and basketball need to end and that means not just waiting on big donors to drop one time gifts, but any donations from the rest of the small to medimum donors. We are already taking way too much money from the otherside of campus as it is.
|
|
|
|
Post by montezumaduck on Jan 23, 2011 9:14:40 GMT -8
The first thing Sterk should do is fix the freaking website to allow online contributions to the Aztec Club. If you can purchase tickets online there is no excuse to have an online vehicle to collect contributions for out of towners and alumni now interested due to the great football and basketball seasons. This is basic stuff! +++++++++++ Frankly, it's embarrassing that the site isn't set up. There should be an email fundraising campaign directing you to the site as well. You HAVE to strike while the iron is hot!! |
|
|
|
Post by FULL_MONTY on Jan 23, 2011 9:17:40 GMT -8
|
|
|
|
Post by aztecalum on Jan 23, 2011 9:40:46 GMT -8
The website for giving to the SDSU General Fund is indeed a good thing. I'm specifically speaking of donating to the athletic dept -> goaztecs.cstv.com/boosters/under-construction.htmlEvery time something good happens (basketball team rankings go up, win at New Mexico, win against UNLV) alumni and donors should receive an email link to this site encouraging donations. Again, basic stuff done by other programs. |
|
|
|
Post by partytecs on Jan 23, 2011 9:57:00 GMT -8
Thanks UT. Great timing of the article. Fisher is trying to secure some top basketball recruits. It will be great ammunition for other schools to use against us.
|
|
|
|
Post by buckeye15 on Jan 23, 2011 9:57:55 GMT -8
Yep SDSU has to try to solicit all the money they can. Obviously fan demand is a big part of it. Obviously getting some big time donor to give you the T Boone Pickens or Phil Knight treatment would be nice but it's really going to depend on a lot of generous people.
From the perspective of a major program (with the nations largest athletic department that is actually one of the few in the entire country that is self sustaining) demand is a big part of it.
For a non-student to get a pair of season football tickets your looking at a 1.5k minimum donation per year for the right to get tickets, plus another 850 or so for the actual tickets themselves. Alumni who pay the 65 bucks a year to be in the alumni association can get a pair of tickets to a single game (randomly chosen, usually early in the year against some cup cake) for face value (about $140 or so for 2 tickets). Needless to say being a fan that wants to go to every game is an expensive habit, and those prices are just for every day tickets that could be just about anywhere in the stadium. Luxury boxes and club seats sure help bring in even more obviously.
The school of course can be creative with other little incentives to donate, like you can get a brick with your name/small message outside of the stadium for anywhere from $150 bucks for a 4x8 brick to $5000 for a big ass brick that goes a long the side of the stadium.
As part of the Buckeye club which is the 1.5k for a chance to buy 2 football tickets deal, they up the incentives to make larger donations with priority tickets to away/bowl games, special dinners/banquets hosted by the athletic department, Golf course privileges etc.
You just have to get creative and what not with what your offerring. It's hard to get people to just throw money at your program with no return, come up with some carrots and it's much easier
|
|
|
|
Post by KickAztec on Jan 23, 2011 10:03:57 GMT -8
Thanks UT. Great timing of the article. Fisher is trying to secure some top basketball recruits. It will be great ammunition for other schools to use against us. Thank you. My first reaction when reading that article was "why now?" Right in the middle of a huge season, and just before the biggest game of that huge season, Ziegler has to write THIS article? To say nothing of it being heavy recruiting time. I have no doubt the issue is legitimate but come on man, use your noggin'. |
|
|
|
Post by germanaztec on Jan 23, 2011 10:08:34 GMT -8
No, I think the timing is perfect. Now we are successful and it is time for people to stand up and donate. Then nobody can use this against us any more. Can you imagine what kind of impact this would have if a donor now would stand up and say she // he would pay for the training facility ...?
|
|
