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Post by bearcatraider on Mar 21, 2024 11:43:51 GMT -5
Hope you right, but some school is going to do it soon, and then more will follow. Have you benn to PFW for any sport? I don't know how they stay D1 - total ticket sales of $80k for all sports in 2022. I have been to many basketball, soccer and baseball games. Not many students at those events, especially the latter. I doubt WSU is getting $90M of media marketing for their investment. sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/206604
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Post by raiderrunt on Mar 21, 2024 12:10:15 GMT -5
Hope you right, but some school is going to do it soon, and then more will follow. Have you benn to PFW for any sport? I don't know how they stay D1 - total ticket sales of $80k for all sports in 2022. I have been to many basketball, soccer and baseball games. Not many students at those events, especially the latter. I doubt WSU is getting $90M of media marketing for their investment. sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/206604I think WSU has gotten many millions of dollars in mentions on national media. I find people all over the county recognize the name WSU Raiders. I'm in Ft. Myers now and a ton of people recognize Wright State. For instance, when RaiderGang lost o UT with the walk-off HR in the bottom of the 9th three years ago really help put WSU on the map. A lot different than 15 years ago.
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Post by hokieraider on Mar 21, 2024 15:43:40 GMT -5
I'll dispute the "not many students at games" -- it varies greatly depending on the day of week, and for baseball, the weather. This week when it was in the 40s for the baseball team, no one was there. I couple of weeks ago when it was in the 70s, we had a real nice crowd for Tuesday and Wednesday games. Of course, many of those students in attendance were athletes from volleyball, womens and mens basketball, and other sports.
When volleyball was on a roll in the fall, McLin was regularly packed and loud, with a lot of those attending being students.
I don't know if those non-rev sports would sway a non-athlete to attend WSU, but they can take it out of the "never heard of them" category where a student might take a look. They also do a good job of bringing in high school and youth teams who get exposure to the campus. When my son was looking at colleges, many of them he was already familiar with because of playing youth sports in their arenas.
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Post by wsuairstrike on Mar 21, 2024 17:59:21 GMT -5
Hope you right, but some school is going to do it soon, and then more will follow. Have you benn to PFW for any sport? I don't know how they stay D1 - total ticket sales of $80k for all sports in 2022. I have been to many basketball, soccer and baseball games. Not many students at those events, especially the latter. I doubt WSU is getting $90M of media marketing for their investment. sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/206604I think WSU has gotten many millions of dollars in mentions on national media. I find people all over the county recognize the name WSU Raiders. I'm in Ft. Myers now and a ton of people recognize Wright State. For instance, when RaiderGang lost o UT with the walk-off HR in the bottom of the 9th three years ago really help put WSU on the map. A lot different than 15 years ago. That's crazy because it's like no one on the Dayton area knows or cares about WSU. But seriously people don't know shit about our athletics. We keep falling behind the curve while the team across town keeps raising.
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Post by wsuairstrike on Mar 21, 2024 18:00:29 GMT -5
If anyone on here knows Bob Grant or can put a bug in whoever is making the next hire, please for the love of God make sure they have no affiliation with the horizon league.
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Post by Big D on Mar 21, 2024 19:56:43 GMT -5
Wright State doesn’t spend 9 million on Athletics. The USA Today link only list basketball ticket sales as revenue. A large portion of Athletics is covered by donations, corporate sponsors, NCAA tournament distribution, etc. Almost all of Wright State’s positive name recognition in the mainstream media and social media comes from athletics. Our faculty hates to admit that but there is a ton of actual research that proves it.
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Post by hokieraider on Mar 22, 2024 17:58:36 GMT -5
If anyone on here knows Bob Grant or can put a bug in whoever is making the next hire, please for the love of God make sure they have no affliction with thr horizon league. +1000
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Post by rowdy4theraiders on Mar 28, 2024 17:31:23 GMT -5
To the points regarding Joylynn Brown, I think the DEI title is more so to cater to the university and athletic department evaluators (Athlete Ally) rather than who she is. While she does have the background as women's volleyball coach, she cares more about opportunities for all of the student athletes over promoting DEI. The next SWA will probably have the same title.
If you want the culture and reputation of WSU Athletics to continue, Brown is the perfect hire. There shouldn't have to be very big decisions made over the first few years as Hoffman was extended, Sargent was named head coach, and I'm not sure Sogard will be on the way out anytime soon. The only hire she will have to make is when Travers Green departs for a bigger job, which is right in her wheelhouse of volleyball.
She can focus on fundraising and continuing to build her relationships in her first few years as AD.
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Post by bearcatraider on Mar 30, 2024 9:36:01 GMT -5
Unless the big donors are driving the process, I don't see how hiring two internal candidates for the two biggest positions in the Athletic Dept is the prudent option.
I have no problem with Nagy leaving. The "friend" who hired him left. There is a ton of chaos at the lower end of college sports. And even though he has enough money to live comfortably, this new gig is golden parachute retirement package.
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Post by rowdy4theraiders on Mar 30, 2024 15:43:35 GMT -5
Unless the big donors are driving the process, I don't see how hiring two internal candidates for the two biggest positions in the Athletic Dept is the prudent option. I have no problem with Nagy leaving. The "friend" who hired him left. There is a ton of chaos at the lower end of college sports. And even though he has enough money to live comfortably, this new gig is golden parachute retirement package. The retirement from Grant was obviously quite the surprise and the university most likely wanted to choose someone who could continue to build on the foundation and mold that Grant had created. It looks like there is a new position open in the Athletic Department for a “Director of Major Gifts.” This person could certainly help Brown with initial fundraising and allowing her to put more focus into the administrative side of her new position.
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Post by Big D on Mar 30, 2024 16:54:59 GMT -5
It looks like there is a new position open in the Athletic Department for a “Director of Major Gifts.” This person could certainly help Brown with initial fundraising and allowing her to put more focus into the administrative side of her new position. That isn’t a new job listing. It was posted 6 months ago. And quite frankly, she shouldn’t need to be focused on the administrative side of her position. We sponsor the absolute minimum number of sports to be a D1 university and most of those sports were chosen because they are the most inexpensive to sponsor because they get a minimal number of scholarships and require a minimal number of coaches and support staff. When it comes to the administrative side to this job, it is one of the easiest jobs in the entire country. Her main focus, if she is able to fill the director of major gifts position or not, needs to be on fundraising. It’s the key to any future growth to the athletic department.
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Post by rowdy4theraiders on Mar 30, 2024 19:16:09 GMT -5
It looks like there is a new position open in the Athletic Department for a “Director of Major Gifts.” This person could certainly help Brown with initial fundraising and allowing her to put more focus into the administrative side of her new position. That isn’t a new job listing. It was posted 6 months ago. And quite frankly, she shouldn’t need to be focused on the administrative side of her position. We sponsor the absolute minimum number of sports to be a D1 university and most of those sports were chosen because they are the most inexpensive to sponsor because they get a minimal number of scholarships and require a minimal number of coaches and support staff. When it comes to the administrative side to this job, it is one of the easiest jobs in the entire country. Her main focus, if she is able to fill the director of major gifts position or not, needs to be on fundraising. It’s the key to any future growth to the athletic department. Thanks for the clarification on that. I was looking this week to see if they had posted the AD job and saw the major gifts job on there. I agree with many of your statements. We will see how receptive the donors are to her being hired. As others have stated previously, there was probably some push from the high level donors to keep the hire internal. I am interested to see what changes are made and what stays the same in terms of fundraising events.
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Post by Big D on Apr 1, 2024 5:36:03 GMT -5
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