I hope y’all will join me, Charlie is busting his *** and doing great things with this. We’ll need this to survive in the new landscape of college sports. https://bulldoginitiative.com/
We’re at 111 Donors to the Bulldog Initiative
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With the economy going to hell now isn't really the best time to start a fund raiser as a lot of folks, myself included, are hanging on to money and waiting to see if our economic situation is going to turn itself around. Reality sucks.
I don’t disagree with the thought process. I’ve stated numerous times, I’m fine with athletes making as much money as possible but I’m not finding it for them.
I agree with you. Ultimately, I do not think a program like this works unless people with significant funds contribute, and the good news is that we have been getting those type of contributions. Without a doubt, those contributions will be the largest part of our revenue for this year. Over the past few months, though, more and more people have told me that I was missing the need for a broad outreach, so we rolled up our sleeves and created the web site. In hindsight, I think both matter and are necessary. We need the big money or this won’t work. The numbers just aren’t there. On the other hand, because a number of those who have signed up (good news - that number has gone up since lunch) have gone well beyond the minimum, this part is also going to matter and has the potential to really help.
It’s easy to get discouraged - Lord knows, I often do, but I think things are trending better than that number might indicate. That being said, if it all falls apart and the inevitable “we should have never trusted a 17 monotone announcer” comments make their way back again, I will at least have the clear conscience of knowing I have done every 17 think I could to try to make it work.
As I said before - I hold *zero* frustration with somebody who does not like this and does not want to participate, and I know many are tired of hearing me talk about it. One last plug for participation, though, if somebody’s objection is that they already get enough - Consider doing something for baseball. On average, our players get 42% of a scholarship. I would at least like to see us get enough to even us up with Vanderbilt and make the part about free school true for them.
It’s easy to get discouraged - Lord knows, I often do, but I think things are trending better than that number might indicate. That being said, if it all falls apart and the inevitable “we should have never trusted a 17 monotone announcer” comments make their way back again, I will at least have the clear conscience of knowing I have done every 17 think I could to try to make it work.
As I said before - I hold *zero* frustration with somebody who does not like this and does not want to participate, and I know many are tired of hearing me talk about it. One last plug for participation, though, if somebody’s objection is that they already get enough - Consider doing something for baseball. On average, our players get 42% of a scholarship. I would at least like to see us get enough to even us up with Vanderbilt and make the part about free school true for them.
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Don't worry. The pulse of this board is WAY over the top negative at the moment. Too many late 30-years and over 40s having an identity crises I guess. I mean ronpolk has posted like 8 times that "such and such will never happen". We get it.
You’re doing great work. I hope you don’t take me being negative on the direction of NIL as being negative to what you’re doing. At a school like MS State it’s going to take all hands on deck. My response was more to someone thinking we’d have thousands signed up to give by now.
I’m 37 and didn’t think I was having an identity crisis but last night I cancelled my BJJ membership and signed up for a damn pickleball gym, and that’s hitting me hard
I can't remember the Economy being this bad except when I was a teenager in the late 70's to early 80's. Some folks like to act like Reagan just stepped in and magically fixed things. It took a couple of years to turn things around with the right things happening and I'm afraid it will again, IF it can. I'm no economics man but the pandemic and other factors I won't start a **** show over will require BOTH sides of congress to fix. Good luck on getting that to happen soon.
The way I see it is, with no rules or any real limitations on transfers, why should I spend my money on a bunch of players who are likely to hold out or transfer out next year for a better deal? Even if we did have a sensible system in place, we couldn't begin to compete with 12 of the other 15 schools in the conference anyway.
Too many factors and it just started. Things new and different like this take time to let people get used to the idea especially until they know more about it and all it encompasses.
1979. Inflation was over 11% last month and it's more than just gas prices being high.
And the killer was,
18 to 21% interest rate!
Chew on that awhile!
Let's go buy a house, or a car!
18 to 21% interest rate!
Chew on that awhile!
Let's go buy a house, or a car!
I was born in 1986, so have no experience with late 70’s. I can clearly see we are on that path and maybe 79 was worse than 2008-2009 but right now is definitely not worse than 2008. Most people who want jobs still have jobs. That definitely was not the case in 2008. But I think I agree with your point that we are headed for something bad.
That’s where I am. I’d like to contribute to baseball because of the disproportionate amount of aid they get, but the transfer rules are out of control. I don’t want to financially contribute to the one and done hired gun system that we are seeing now.
Yep. When many of us have kids that have good grades, are good citizens but don’t have 32s on the ACT and won’t get a dime from MSU or anywhere else, 17 these entitled 17ers looking for thousands and MILLIONS to be handed to them
Not yet but it is trending that way. One of the primary factors in 2008 was due to lenders being required to loan money to people to buy housing that had neither the means of the desire to pay the money back. It was a pretty quick fix that basically kicked the can down the road. What we are now could get a lot worse for a much longer period time.
Guys. $25 dollars per month. The economy has nothing to do with that.
If 10K people give $25 a month, that’s $3 mil a year of expected revenue that we can budget out to players. That’s a huge advantage her.
Just $25. We all can do this.
If 10K people give $25 a month, that’s $3 mil a year of expected revenue that we can budget out to players. That’s a huge advantage her.
Just $25. We all can do this.
I graduated HS in 85, likely one of the best three year periods of our civilization was 84/85/86, the biggest stain in the time period was AIDS. Most people didn't make _hit for money, but there wasn't rampant materialism, so there wasn't near as much to spend money on. People were so much happier, just doing nothing was a common activity. Cable TV hadn't yet rotted everyone's brain and the 24 news cycle (the beginning of the end) had not yet invaded our psyche.