A-T Fund: Only 8,000?

JoeCakeEater said:
Can you earmark money for football only? Maybe that’s selfish...but I care not about supporting swimming or something like that. I would also like to support women’s volleyball.
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You can earmark money for a number of things from football to cheerleading. I typically don't designate; but the choices are there. I think you have to give $150 to get member status.

Oh, and giving year runs from July 1st to June 3oth if that matters.

Aeromech, one of only 8000? fans who contributes to GTAA routinely.
 
GT flunkout said:
GTAA is and continues to be amateur hour in most things. IMO there is an attitude that we can't do the same things as other schools do so we don't even try.

As a "little guy" average fan the only time I felt engaged by the AA was during the Radakovich era.
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Stansbury should have cleaned house within a year of his arrival.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
Can you earmark money for football only? Maybe that’s selfish...but I care not about supporting swimming or something like that. I would also like to support women’s volleyball.
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Yes. You can allocate it to any specific sport you want. Most sports let you shop their support schemes right here online:
http://atfund.gatech.edu/annual-giving#Sports

You can allocate though to whatever sport you want. You can donate to any specific area in AI2020, though I think all the FB and MBB stuff is fully funded in AI2020.

There are three areas where the GTAA makes it difficult to casually send money:
1) Specific areas within football. This means if possible the GTAA will allocate your football dollars to the Athletic Scholarship Fund which makes up the gap between endowment disbursements and annual scholarship costs. You'll be covering annual scholarship costs of GT football players not covered by endowed money more or less. If you want to give to specific areas within football you literally have to call and interface with the GTAA directly.
2) Specific areas within MBB. Same as above but with MBB.
3) Permanent scholarship endowment. Endowment disbursements cover only 1/3 or so of annual scholarship costs. So when I have no faith in the big sports (FB,MBB,BaseB) I try to funnel my money into the permanent endowment. But even when I explicitly say in the instructions permanent endowment my receipts from the GTAA show it got funneled into the Athletic Scholarship Fund. You probably have to call the GTAA and interface with them directly to make sure the money goes to the actual endowment if that's where you want to send it.
 
I always heard that we have one of the smallest donor bases in ACC. 8000 might be right. For some schools it's a social status that means something in community (Rams Club at UNC).
 
I always thought the Tech fund was a great infusion of cash but a long term risk. You quit rewarding loyalty. I had season tickets in 108 for twenty plus years traveling from 425 miles away and having to be back at work on Sunday morning. Admittedly, when the Tech fund was instituted my kids were older and my son was playing football, I was older and driving back late was getting harder, and not knowing kickoff times more than thirteen days out made it impossible to know when to take a vacation Sunday with a late kickoff. I have continued to contribute to AT as always although any reward for longevity in giving does not exist.

The Tech fund leads to volatility in season ticket sales. If you don’t renew one year you can buy your way into the same section when you are ready to come back. Only if we were maxing our season tickets with near 100% renewal would there by any real reward for loyalty. I think using the Tech fund in basketball has greatly reduced the incentive for loyal ticket buyers to hang in there and keep their seats in lean times.
 
77GTFan said:
I always thought the Tech fund was a great infusion of cash but a long term risk. You quit rewarding loyalty. I had season tickets in 108 for twenty plus years traveling from 425 miles away and having to be back at work on Sunday morning. Admittedly, when the Tech fund was instituted my kids were older and my son was playing football, I was older and driving back late was getting harder, and not knowing kickoff times more than thirteen days out made it impossible to know when to take a vacation Sunday with a late kickoff. I have continued to contribute to AT as always although any reward for longevity in giving does not exist.

The Tech fund leads to volatility in season ticket sales. If you don’t renew one year you can buy your way into the same section when you are ready to come back. Only if we were maxing our season tickets with near 100% renewal would there by any real reward for loyalty. I think using the Tech fund in basketball has greatly reduced the incentive for loyal ticket buyers to hang in there and keep their seats in lean times.
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Good points. I would rather do away with the TECH Fund and instead have mandatory minimum A-T Fund contributions to be able to purchase season tickets. And how early you get to renew your tickets (and thus choose where you seat) is determined by A-T Fund lifetime points and done maybe 4-6 chunks. Accounts which only pony up to get tickets when UGAg is on the home slate are red flagged (pun intended) and put in the last group to get access.
 
I can tell you some of that problem comes from GT and AT Fund itself, they don't even answer email inquiries, but that is GT and has been for a long time. GT operates like Gov't which of course is what they are.
 
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