Post by Henry Skrimshander on Aug 4, 2023 13:12:54 GMT -8
We're going to be playing in a new conference in 2024-25, that's a given. What it will look like or what it will be called remains to be seen, but it's gonna happen. A year isn't a long time but starting in Sept., 2024, we're probably going to be playing 8 or 9 new opponents in all our sports.
So, time to stop feeling sorry for ourselves, time to take action, time to get cracking, as Darnell Robinson used to say. (It will never be time to stop hating UO, USC, UCLA and UW and Fox for killing the Pac-12. Never).
The OSU Foundation immediately needs to set up a "Campaign for Athletic Excellence" or something similar, with a target goal of $200 million. At 5% interest, that would generate about $10 million a year to start, to help fund OSU athletics and help alleviate the shortfall between the rights fees we once got and will get in the future.
Yeah, I know many just gave money for the stadium, or for baseball, or for the softball hitting building, or for the track, or for something else, but this is different. This is for the very survival of OSU athletics, for the survival of OSU as a competitive FBS program, and to ensure we can still attract top-quality coaches and athletes.
And yeah, $200 million is a lot to raise. But it has to be done if we have any hope of surviving. And it has to be a broad-based, collective effort, not just hitting the same long-time donors again. There are more than 210,000 OSU alums worldwide, and many, many more friends of the university. Somehow a lot of those people have to be convinced to give $500, or $1,000 to save our athletic program. Companies run by OSU grads and supporters must be targeted, too, for larger donations if possible.
I am not a professional fund raiser. But the Foundation is full of them. It's time for action. Beavers are builders, and this has to be our biggest project yet.
No outsider is going to feel sorry for us or help us. It's on us.
So, time to stop feeling sorry for ourselves, time to take action, time to get cracking, as Darnell Robinson used to say. (It will never be time to stop hating UO, USC, UCLA and UW and Fox for killing the Pac-12. Never).
The OSU Foundation immediately needs to set up a "Campaign for Athletic Excellence" or something similar, with a target goal of $200 million. At 5% interest, that would generate about $10 million a year to start, to help fund OSU athletics and help alleviate the shortfall between the rights fees we once got and will get in the future.
Yeah, I know many just gave money for the stadium, or for baseball, or for the softball hitting building, or for the track, or for something else, but this is different. This is for the very survival of OSU athletics, for the survival of OSU as a competitive FBS program, and to ensure we can still attract top-quality coaches and athletes.
And yeah, $200 million is a lot to raise. But it has to be done if we have any hope of surviving. And it has to be a broad-based, collective effort, not just hitting the same long-time donors again. There are more than 210,000 OSU alums worldwide, and many, many more friends of the university. Somehow a lot of those people have to be convinced to give $500, or $1,000 to save our athletic program. Companies run by OSU grads and supporters must be targeted, too, for larger donations if possible.
I am not a professional fund raiser. But the Foundation is full of them. It's time for action. Beavers are builders, and this has to be our biggest project yet.
No outsider is going to feel sorry for us or help us. It's on us.
