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SycamoreStateofMind said:
You all have to understand something… First of all, Todd Hein and John Newton individually have been running our collective - without them who knows we still might not have anything off the ground. They were not early adopters as far as the P5’s are concerned but as far as mids are concerned they got to work pretty early! 6 months ago our NIL was around $100k and today it’s near $220k I believe. So they’ve doubled it in 6 months all while private donors committed $800k+ by some estimates to keep the head coach. So the two efforts were sort of working against eachother quite a bit - but besides the point. Yes those guys need help and yes from an organization standpoint things are going to need to improve! They get it.

Tuesday - a meeting is set with the NIL and RJL Solutions to try and address the promotion, marketing pieces that are lacking.

Thursday - a meeting with some of the larger NIL/CoachFund donors is set to take place. Likely to rally the troop because most of those coach fund donations had an opt out clause if JS wasn’t the coach. So the ask is going to be - can you stay committed to help continue to build upon this success!

A group of younger alumni locally that don’t have the same capacity to give as some of our larger donors that are frequently hit up is organizing to help drive some of these events - a master plan if you will to make a more coordinated effort. The hope with some of these younger alums is that we can donate our time and energy to help make up what our bank accounts can’t really move the needle too much.

So hopefully in the near future we can help get this thing humming - a lot of good conversations are taking place. So your patience is appreciated and if you think you can help in anyway please reach out to me.

Thanks!
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Heck. Yes. That’s awesome. And nothing but props to Hein and Newton for everything they are doing. Any complaining is strictly wanting things to be better.

I’m not based in TH…or an alum…or that young (unless we count mid-30s as young)…but I’m more than happy to help out however I can here from the Indy area. I do have some decent experience with sales, marketing, fundraising, event management, promotional products, and brand management though.

At the very least I can help out with donating beer for some CoC events.
 
isubird33 said:
Heck. Yes. That’s awesome. And nothing but props to Hein and Newton for everything they are doing. Any complaining is strictly wanting things to be better.

I’m not based in TH…or an alum…or that young (unless we count mid-30s as young)…but I’m more than happy to help out however I can here from the Indy area. I do have some decent experience with sales, marketing, fundraising, event management, promotional products, and brand management though.

At the very least I can help out with donating beer for some CoC events.
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That would qualify as “younger” for the intent of this project… I think the age classification is really not that important to what we are trying to do - we just have a group of guys that donate what we can but we can probably better serve the collective in helping plan and execute fundraising events. In the past we’ve had the same group of people really propping these efforts up and it’s time some other people step up to help them.

And yes - product would be great and anything else you can do. I will be in touch soon. Thank you!
 
SycamoreStateofMind said:
That would qualify as “younger” for the intent of this project… I think the age classification is really not that important to what we are trying to do - we just have a group of guys that donate what we can but we can probably better serve the collective in helping plan and execute fundraising events. In the past we’ve had the same group of people really propping these efforts up and it’s time some other people step up to help them.

And yes - product would be great and anything else you can do. I will be in touch soon. Thank you!
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Sounds great. Shoot me a DM if you want to swap contact info or anything. Happy to pass along some ideas…smart or dumb as they may seem. I probably spend way too much time thinking about this stuff.
 

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In my opinion isu will again get a d2 proven who wants to move up to d1, or a former d1 coach who has been out of the game as a head coach for a while.
I’ll say it again, make a call to Dane Fife. The worst he can say is no.
 
CoachShipp said:
Future possibility?

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2024/mar/05/unlv-testing-out-new-source-for-nil-funding-las-ve/#:~:text=The problem, according to Friends,is just a no-no.
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This is the kind of thing that I love...like legitimately this makes me happy.

Can a casino directly give money to an NIL fund? Nope that's off limits.

But a casino sponsoring a prize at a university sporting event, and in order to have a chance to win said prize you have to donate to the NIL fund, and any donations get you a matching voucher for credit from said casino? No rules against that...all good.

Plus it's a situation where everyone gets what they want. The NIL fund finds a way to get a large business that was previously not able to work with them to be able to do so, people who want to donate to the NIL fund get to effectively for free, and the casino gets increased business with people coming in to use the vouchers. It's beautiful.
 
isubird33 said:
This is the kind of thing that I love...like legitimately this makes me happy.

Can a casino directly give money to an NIL fund? Nope that's off limits.

But a casino sponsoring a prize at a university sporting event, and in order to have a chance to win said prize you have to donate to the NIL fund, and any donations get you a matching voucher for credit from said casino? No rules against that...all good.

Plus it's a situation where everyone gets what they want. The NIL fund finds a way to get a large business that was previously not able to work with them to be able to do so, people who want to donate to the NIL fund get to effectively for free, and the casino gets increased business with people coming in to use the vouchers. It's beautiful.
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It's hilarious. Just absolutely nonsensical and just shows you the human spirit to get around rules.
 

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SycamoreTree said:
That’s awesome, the old saying you don’t know what you don’t know. But that’s exactly what needs to happen if you can’t donate money donate time between the two we can get this thing where it needs to be. Glad they are reacting while the iron is hot.
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I don't know Todd Hein but I do know John Newton. I have known John for 50 years and I don't know anyone who has promoted ISU more than John has during those years. All of his work for COC has been done at his expense. He takes nothing for his work. He is not reimbursed for any moneys he spends promoting COC. I ask that we all look at his example at give what you can to COC.
 

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If we brought Huggins in he is a proven winner, we have to make a splash to keep the momentum He won big time at Cinn West Virginia. Sure he has a checkered pass of drinking but damm give this guy a second chance I don't even think we have the money to bring him to ISU. But I would guarantte with his enthusasim we would see big crowds once again at the Hulman Center
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rsperge said:
If we brought Huggins in he is a proven winner, we have to make a splash to keep the momentum He won big time at Cinn West Virginia. Sure he has a checkered pass of drinking but damm give this guy a second chance I don't even think we have the money to bring him to ISU. But I would guarantte with his enthusasim we would see big crowds once again at the Hulman Center
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Just police escort him around town, I’m fine with it. The MVC would be ours that’s for sure. I doubt our going rate matches what he’d take however
 
rsperge said:
If we brought Huggins in he is a proven winner, we have to make a splash to keep the momentum He won big time at Cinn West Virginia. Sure he has a checkered pass of drinking but damm give this guy a second chance I don't even think we have the money to bring him to ISU. But I would guarantte with his enthusasim we would see big crowds once again at the Hulman Center
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How about no. Drunk driving barely makes the top 5 on the list of the reasons this bum is a POS


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