Message from the GTAA

Love it. They should also add a way to donate airline/hotel points if this is going to sending coaches out or bringing recruits in.

I'm sure there are lots of us that accumulate points via job travel. I'd probably be good to donate a couple of round trip tickets a year.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
I'm really confused why they would not widely distribute this incredibly positive message to every ticket holder. Sometimes it's like they *almost* understand what they are doing over there.

Anyway, thanks for sharing @ibeeballin. Everybody who posts on this site needs to click that link.

EDIT: Lol my eyes are bad this is not text.

Clickable: http://buzz.gt/FBRecruitingFund
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It will be widely distributed in the next few days.
 
1. This is the right thing to do.
2. It reads like a damn project managment charter.
3. It's missing a whole lotta rah-rah, win one for the gipper.

Is that really gonna energize new donors?
 
meh. I am making some last minute donations for my last year of itemized deductions but this didn't make the cut.
 
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GT has never been proficient at fundraising. I'm an alumni of 4 universities, so I've seen a variety of techniques:

1. Find alumni with money (i.e. use the alumni database to look for executives at Fortune 500 companies)
2. Build a relationship: Do minimal research to find something about that person and assign a student with a similar background to contact them
3. Make them feel important: Have someone influential make a quick phone call (university president, assistant football coach, etc.)
4. Offer the person something of value: an "x under x" award, alumni award, tickets to the president's suite, write an article in the alumni newsletter
5. Once the person has a relationship with the university, feels important, gets something of value, then the university asks for money, and usually gets it.

Tech tends to use the shotgun approach and hope they get enough responses. The problem is that the people they shotgun are those already donating.
 
gtphd said:
GT has never been proficient at fundraising. I'm an alumni of 4 universities, so I've seen a variety of techniques:

1. Find alumni with money (i.e. use the alumni database to look for executives at Fortune 500 companies)
2. Build a relationship: Do minimal research to find something about that person and assign a student with a similar background to contact them
3. Make them feel important: Have someone influential make a quick phone call (university president, assistant football coach, etc.)
4. Offer the person something of value: an "x under x" award, alumni award, tickets to the president's suite, write an article in the alumni newsletter
5. Once the person has a relationship with the university, feels important, gets something of value, then the university asks for money, and usually gets it.

Tech tends to use the shotgun approach and hope they get enough responses. The problem is that the people they shotgun are those already donating.
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Well help them change.
 
SGA_Jacket said:
If you can’t afford an additional $9.99 to give to GTAA then you shouldn’t be paying $9.99 for rivals.
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The point is that you should not waste money on Rivals, Scout, etc.

If you’re a Tech fan and paying for their crap, all you are doing is subsidizing recruiting for uga, bama, etc. Those services put their finger on the scale to drive recruits to the big schools to build more hype and to drive the eyes of big fan bases to their sites.
 
savbandjacket said:
The point is that you should not waste money on Rivals, Scout, etc.

If you’re a Tech fan and paying for their crap, all you are doing is subsidizing recruiting for uga, bama, etc. Those services put their finger on the scale to drive recruits to the big schools to build more hype and to drive the eyes of big fan bases to their sites.
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Exactly. $10 from them to gtaa is a $20 swing in our favor. Ffs, the rivals guy went to uga.
 
How long should we expect it to take to see results from an investment in recruiting ”specialists?” I agree we need more focus/investment in recruiting, but what is a realistic expectation for what that returns?
 
savbandjacket said:
The point is that you should not waste money on Rivals, Scout, etc.

If you’re a Tech fan and paying for their crap, all you are doing is subsidizing recruiting for uga, bama, etc. Those services put their finger on the scale to drive recruits to the big schools to build more hype and to drive the eyes of big fan bases to their sites.
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That's a good point but I think it's more nuanced. Not giving money to Rivals won't shut down Rivals, but it might shut down or diminish their GT coverage. And I think what a guy like Kelly Quinlan does is valuable. It generates buzz around our program, it makes recruits feel important, etc. What would a recruit think if he commits to GT and no one seems to care, but he's got like 10 reporters for other schools asking him about his commitment, making GT seem like a bad decision?

So I take a softer position. I don't think it's bad to pay Rivals, but I think it's bad if you're paying Rivals and not at least equally supporting a fundraiser like this, which has a more direct impact on our football program. That's where I was coming from in my "give your Rivals $9.99 to GTAA" post.

Personally I quit Rivals and don't plan to rejoin just because their cancellation process is so purposefully time consuming and obnoxious.
 
gtphd said:
GT has never been proficient at fundraising. I'm an alumni of 4 universities, so I've seen a variety of techniques:

1. Find alumni with money (i.e. use the alumni database to look for executives at Fortune 500 companies)
2. Build a relationship: Do minimal research to find something about that person and assign a student with a similar background to contact them
3. Make them feel important: Have someone influential make a quick phone call (university president, assistant football coach, etc.)
4. Offer the person something of value: an "x under x" award, alumni award, tickets to the president's suite, write an article in the alumni newsletter
5. Once the person has a relationship with the university, feels important, gets something of value, then the university asks for money, and usually gets it.

Tech tends to use the shotgun approach and hope they get enough responses. The problem is that the people they shotgun are those already donating.
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You don't think this is a good fundraiser? I really like it, it's like a crowdfunding campaign with concrete changes for your money, that address a clear need of our program. I donated and I honestly have never donated to GT athletics other than tickets.

Of course, getting alumni whales is probably more of a game-changer than crowdfunding...

ramblinwise1 said:
meh. I am making some last minute donations for my last year of itemized deductions but this didn't make the cut.
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You have thereby forfeited the privilege of complaining about recruiting for a year.
 
gtzulu said:
That's a good point but I think it's more nuanced. Not giving money to Rivals won't shut down Rivals, but it might shut down or diminish their GT coverage. And I think what a guy like Kelly Quinlan does is valuable. It generates buzz around our program, it makes recruits feel important, etc. What would a recruit think if he commits to GT and no one seems to care, but he's got like 10 reporters for other schools asking him about his commitment, making GT seem like a bad decision?

So I take a softer position. I don't think it's bad to pay Rivals, but I think it's bad if you're paying Rivals and not at least equally supporting a fundraiser like this, which has a more direct impact on our football program. That's where I was coming from in my "give your Rivals $9.99 to GTAA" post.

Personally I quit Rivals and don't plan to rejoin just because their cancellation process is so purposefully time consuming and obnoxious.
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That would be different if they didn’t purposefully influence decisions though. That’s what they are doing when they increase a guys rating immediately upon signing with a factory vs downgrade when he commits to us.
 
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