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Post by Bornthrilla on Oct 28, 2006 23:55:49 GMT -5
I don't think we have a system in place to agressively sollict donations from our NFL players. It might help if we first showed them how proud we are and how much we appreciate all their hard work.
For instance: somebody please tell me why we don't retire jerseys? There should never be any other running back at this university wearing #22. That is just blasphemy.
Next season, we should find out what week San Francisco has a bye and invite Hicks back for a much-belated jersery retirement ceremony. Dude is the leading rusher in school history and set the all-time single game NCAA record with 437 yards at Morgan in 2001. He single-handedly won about eight games during his two seasons here.
Retire Hicks' #22 jersey, give him an elaborate halftime ceremony, make him a king for a day ... and then ask him to make a tax deductable donation to help get this program back on solid ground.
I bet he doesn't even blink as he reaches for his checkbook.
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Post by aggiesjh88 on Oct 30, 2006 7:05:59 GMT -5
I understand your point of view. However, I must be the only Aggie football Alumni from 1992-1997 on the board right now. Because if you go back and check the papers between 1994-1996 we were known in the paper as the "Cardiac Gang or Comeback kids" I can't remember the exact name. I quess everyone forgot about the Coca Cola Classic. When we came back against Southern University. That's all we did was comeback against teams. We ran the wing-t very well, but when our 5 receiver set took the field we did that well also. Think about it. Coach Hayes made a A&T a winning tradition with a weight room the size of 3 dorm rooms. A field house suited for 25-30 people, but housed 80 plus football players. Coach Hayes could recruit and was a great Coach.
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Post by runaggierun on Oct 30, 2006 10:37:24 GMT -5
For some reason black professional athletes only give money back to their white colleges and I mean big money. Go figure I will add that Basnight have assisted the athletic program and he has made the least money out of the guys who did play in the NFL multiple years the last 10 to 12 years. I know for a fact Ben Wallace and Charles Oakley have donated basketball scholarships to Virginia Union. Pro players that are the products of HBCUs dont feel comfortable giving back to athletics in general many times, but will give to the specific program.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Oct 30, 2006 10:42:27 GMT -5
Runaggierun, do you think A&T currently has a system in place to solict donations from our NFL players?
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Post by DOOMS on Oct 30, 2006 10:43:46 GMT -5
Of course not. We just blame Small.
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Post by captaggie on Oct 30, 2006 11:04:39 GMT -5
Fundraising is a matter of cultivating relationships. How well we treat athletes when their with us has a large influence on whether they give back and how much.
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Post by DOOMS on Oct 30, 2006 11:11:43 GMT -5
Honestly, some of them are just plain selfish.
Athletes aren't any different from the alumni at large. I know more people that won't give because somebody somewhere at one sole time in history at A&T pissed them off than I do people that actually give. Hell, I'm like that when it comes to most things, just not when it comes to my alma maters. If I get bad customer service as soon as I no longer need you I won't give you my business.
We defintely have to repair relationships. One dream I had that I always kept to myself was that we would fund scholarships to help athletes whose eligiblity expired finish their degress. I'm talking about that dude who was eight credits short in 1978 that we just threw by the wayside. I'm talking about the cat who left after two years because his scholly got cut. We owe these folks.
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Post by aggiejazz on Oct 30, 2006 12:52:01 GMT -5
Those players have a special bond with their former college coach, who happens to be white. Those guys, especially Ben Wallace right now, come back to Richmond to workout and to be with the VA Union BB coach and players. Ben Wallace talks fondly of working out in the "hot box" or "sweat box" at Virginia Union. If you build special bonds you will get love right back. For some reason black professional athletes only give money back to their white colleges and I mean big money. Go figure I will add that Basnight have assisted the athletic program and he has made the least money out of the guys who did play in the NFL multiple years the last 10 to 12 years. I know for a fact Ben Wallace and Charles Oakley have donated basketball scholarships to Virginia Union. Pro players that are the products of HBCUs dont feel comfortable giving back to athletics in general many times, but will give to the specific program.
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