Originally posted by BankerBuzz:
King is a local commercial real estate guy, and a friend of mine. King is the immediate past board president of the club (and an Auburn grad). I spoke with him about this a few weeks ago.
One of the reasons that the Macon TD Club has been so successful getting good speakers is the fact that Bobby Pope is very involved with the club. Pope is the AD at Mercer University in Macon, which helps get these coaches to come in town.
King said that he and Pope talked with Gailey's secretary three times and Gailey refused to come. They tried every possible scenario for dates to accomodate Gailey - but he wouldn't budge.
King mentioned that O'Leary will most likely be coming this year for one of the open dates.
It is getting tougher and tougher to get the coaches in to speak. The $1,000 fee is nothing to them with their high salaries. Auburn isn't coming, UNC turned us down, Grobe came last year, but not this year, etc., etc.