We Will or CGC?
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Donate to the basketball program where we actually have a microscopic chance of winning a national title vs football where we have 0 chance of winning a Natty.
From the conversations I have, we desperately need huge sums of NIL and in a damn hurry.
With that said, I completely understand those that do not give to it and have no problem whatsoever with that position, truly.
I would say give to NIL if you can and choose to. And if you don’t want to or have additional, give to CGC.
With that said, I completely understand those that do not give to it and have no problem whatsoever with that position, truly.
I would say give to NIL if you can and choose to. And if you don’t want to or have additional, give to CGC.
The whole system starting with the ineffective NCAA needs to blow up.
Does We Will let you earmark for a specific sport? I know they support athletes from many sports but I would prefer my donation to be used to support a specific one. Can I direct my donation that way?
Probably a @brentblum question.
Probably a @brentblum question.
That is a great question and I'd like to know the answer as well. I love Iowa State in general, but I don't avidly follow much outside of mens and womens basketball and football. Wouldn't want my money going to the softball team, no offense.
This could work for people wanting to donate specifically to the biggest revenue sports or for people wanting to donate specifically to the lesser revenue sports (which deserve a lot more financial support). But then maybe The Collective is more for ensuring we keep our best athletes for the biggest revenue sports so that more money can be made there. And then later on money can be donated directly to the athletic department to support all the sports.
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Okay, let's look at this for a second. If you give lets say $1,000 (pick a number). You can say I want it specifically for football (pick a sport), will you ever be able to follow it? Unless you donate something like 1 million for a smaller attended sport like softball, it will just come out in the wash. You say I want my 1k to go to MBB, and they have already lined up 50k in MBB work, well, they just shift 1k of that 50 already lined up to a different sport. So your 1k seems to have went to MBB, but it honestly was the next funds in and they helped the swimming and diving team with it. 6 in hand, half a dozen in the other.
Sounds a little mean and not intended that way, but unless you are giving a LARGE donation, you kinda have to accept that it went to bolster ISU athletics and while part of your funds went to softball, someone who loves softball have some of their funds go to the sport you preferred.
Ironically, softball (and other non-revs) are probably the sports where NIL as it "ought" to be will actually happen. Whether it's some cute influencer/infielder pushing high-end clothes and making huge $$, or just Tammy from Boone getting $500 to hit slow pitch at Karl Chevrolet some afternoon.
It's NOT supposed to be about paying players to stay or go like European soccer contracts, and giving them cash to just show up at whatever made up crap satisfies the letter of the rules. But of course that's where it is.
I was under the impression that if a donee makes a restricted contribution to any not for profit that not for profit has to abide by the restriction. It doesn't matter if the not for profit wants to or not.
Yep. I have no problem with Tyrese Hunter getting $10,000 to do a spot for a local car dealership.
But six and well towards seven figures to... well, play basketball, because some Texas oil billionaire doesn't have anything better to do with his money than try to make his basketball team win.
So... basically European soccer. Fantastically wealthy dudes who made all their money on natural resources with nothing better to do with their time and money than to try to win ball games for children.
It's silly stepping back from it, but it's the world we live in.
That is correct, but like I mentioned in another post, if you aren't donating a large sum, it will be hard to say that your 1k donation is not part of the 20k that went to such and such basketball player.
Brent mentioned on the last podcast that several farmers are selling/donating cattle specifically to go towards ISU's O-line
I know, I'm just saying that if someone wants to know that their dollars helped to boost overall MBB lets say, it will be harder to quantify since there will be a lot of people just donate with no restrictions. If they say a MBB player specifically or a MBB to help at big brothers/big sisters, then it would be much easier. I was treasurer of a decent sized non profit ambulance service and learned more than I cared to about that stuff.
Hopefully different OL players than we currently have