Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
It’s time to dig deep – let’s endow a football scholarship
Fellow SouthernFACTS supporters,
Back in March of 2007, many of us decided that the time for standing idly by had come and gone. By banding together in a grassroots effort, we were able to set and achieve our goal of convincing the University to pursue a FBS Feasibility study. Sometime next month, we will learn the results of that study and should be able to gauge where we stand in our pursuit of bringing better competition to Paulson Stadium.
Today we have launched our second grassroots effort in coordination with Southern Boosters and GSUFans.com – we are looking to raise money to endow ONE football scholarship.
Southern Boosters has set the cost of this endeavor at $50,000 and if we hope to add the 22 additional scholarships necessary to compete at the FBS/I-A level then we have to start gathering these funds now. We raised over $2,000 last time very quickly just out of a few donors to do some simple advertising – today we need you all to pitch in to directly help the football program ramp up for what’s next.
We ask that you visit SouthernFACTS.org and click on the ChipIn link on the right hand side. Send over whatever you can offer, $5, $10, $100, $1000 or more. The money will go directly to the Southern Boosters bank accounts and Dan O’Dowd and his crew will be able to give you credit for your donations just as if you had mailed the check in yourself.
So get your end of the year donations in and help us make a difference!
If you can’t give, then go out of your way and recruit a new booster to the program – have them ChipIn! – and make sure to let us know that you did so! Every little bit helps!
As an incentive to the largest donor during the month of December, I will personally mail you my last original copy of the coveted NCAA Drive to Dixie poster which celebrates Erk Russell’s undefeated 1989 national championship season. These originals have gone for over $500 on eBay and are great find for the GSU collector in your home.
So dig deep, and if you want to spread the word you can add a ChipIn widget to your sites by clicking this link.
on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 1:50 pm:
I think playing two money games a year is more likely in the beginning either a two for one’s or single games. $750 is starting to be the low end of the FBS payout as well.
on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 2:01 pm:
WKU made 2.1M in payout income in 2008 their last transition year. There were also 33 other teams that made over 750K in payouts in 2008. 750K is really conservative. Remember we will be in a transition period for four years and not bowl eligible that time should be used to maximise income to build the program. Once we are past the transition period and bowl eligible then we should only shoot for two money games a year at the most until we are on solid ground. Like a few Sun Belt schools are starting to get to.
on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 2:03 pm:
Both those comments were meant for the Sun Belt budget article.