NCAAbbs - Poll - Weight Room Donations @mt.org

If you are willing to share, please vote for the amount closest to your 3-year pledge to the new Football Weight Room.

and i know there are some out there who hit hard right now with the economy down turn. but find a way to send $25 a year for 3 years. that will get your name in the number of tiger fans that make this state to show that tiger football is important to this community and worth investing in.

With 21 responses, we have just over $16,000 pledged, or an average of about $800 per pledge.

Pretty good so far, if the entire fan base responds this way. Just 2000 fans with this level of support will fund the project at $1.6 million.

This will send the RIGHT message to those in charge.

Dang it, I should have read the post below, I selected the annual not the total. oh, well.

Now at 35 replies, the total is almost exactly $35,000 (assuming the person at $10,000 or more gave exactly $10,000). The average pledge for these figures is left as an exercise for the reader.

Bill83 Wrote:

Dang it, I should have read the post below, I selected the annual not the total. oh, well.

That's OK, I was just interested in a ball-park figure. The data is very good so far. I'll be interested to see what the response has been at the TSF this week.

Pledge now by getting the easy to print pledge card with address below.

Wow. Now we have 44 pledges that total $52,000, average $1180 per donation.

Folks on this board should be proud of our participation. It is really neat to see people responding. I hope that the TSF totals from the general fan base are adding up this way.

Looks to be close to 57,000 now....

kpigout Wrote:

Looks to be close to 57,000 now....

Yep, at 56 donations, the total is $57,600, average is $1028 per donation.

My work has been dead since last August thanks to the Fed. I look for things to pick up after the new adminstration gets in, but that will be at least another half year. So my pledge is going to be on the low side.

Pressed Rat Wrote:

My work has been dead since last August thanks to the Fed. I look for things to pick up after the new adminstration gets in, but that will be at least another half year. So my pledge is going to be on the low side.

The economy is affecting lots of folks. Some of our buddies are dropping their basketball seats because of a business downturn. My business has been affected to some extent, too.

I think the encouraging point is how many have pledged, regardless of what giving level they have. The show of support for football is great, and I hope the TSF totals show the same response across the board from Tiger fans in general.

It helps to be able to spread the payments out over three years.

Also, my approach was to divide my previously committed OCS donation into two new donation allotments - this one for the weight training project and the next one for the IPF.

If the OCS opportunity comes along in a few years...well...I will make a NEW commitment. LOL!

Pressed Rat Wrote:

My work has been dead since last August thanks to the Fed. I look for things to pick up after the new adminstration gets in, but that will be at least another half year. So my pledge is going to be on the low side.

i know things are hard in a lot of areas right now.

but as coach west stated at last months TSF luncheon, how we react when its hard is how we seperate ourselves from others.

the commitment is more important than the amount in this exercise. do what you can do - that is all that can ever be asked.

Current info - 65 mt.org donations = $61, 250. Average donation = $942

This was announced only 6 days ago. I think the response is excellent.

After 70 donations, we have a total of $63,100 and an average of $900 per pledge.

How many members do we have here? The fact that 70 have given 63,000 is great but we NEED everyone to give whatever they can lets get on board here guys this is what we have been asking for.

oakland steve Wrote:

How many members do we have here? The fact that 70 have given 63,000 is great but we NEED everyone to give whatever they can lets get on board here guys this is what we have been asking for.

I don't know the total number of posters. It does seem as if we should have more, though.

Present data; 75 pledges total $67,600., average still $900 per pledge.

I agree with oakland steve, that everybody who is a Tiger fan needs to try to pledge something, even if its $25 per year. I have also e-mailed a link to the pledge form to a group of Tiger fans who do not post here, and some of them are pledging. You can help by spreading the news to others. We all know somebody who is a big Tiger fan, but never shows up on the board.

78 donations now total $71,100 and average just over $900.

OK, 80 pledges now total $73,100. Avg = $913

Come on folks, surely there are some more pledges out there. If we get 1700 total pledges at this average, we will exceed the 1.5 million needed. I am hopeful that there are many fans not on this board who have sent (or are sending) a pledge.

I sent in my pledge yesterday. I went longer than my first thought, but what the heck, I have three years to pay it.

I am encouraged to see the number of donations. We, at mt.org, are just a small sample of the fan base, yet likely more enthusiastic that the norm.

I hope that the word is getting out to those who don't post here.

How many members do we have here?

oakland steve Wrote:

How many members do we have here?

I'm not sure how many members there are. I was hoping one of the mods knew and would give us a count

At 84 pledges, the total is $73,500 with the average gift at $875.

bump

86 Donors = Total $83,600

Avg. per/$973

Do we know how many have been received?

If you've answered this poll, please make sure you have sent in your pledge card.

uofmwalton Wrote:

Do we know how many have been received?

From my conversation with a couple of folks at Fan Day, the TSF has not received anything like what is listed here. Either there is a big lag between reporting it here and having it counted at the TSF office, or folks are not giving a true report of their pledge. I prefer to think it is just the delay in the US Mail, etc., but I don't know that for sure.

What I do know is we need a lot more pledges and contributions, or this effort could fall flat. It also appears that there is no major groundswell of contributions from folks not on this board, or the total would be much better.

I talked to the "Marketing" table at Fan Fair, and when I asked exactly what was being done to let the public in this region know about this fund drive, I was told it was really the job of the TSF. ????? They said it had been published on the U of M web site, and that there would be some publicity at the football games. I am waiting with bated breath to see what that will consist of!
I said what about the general public who did not even go to the U of M but are football fans? What about that myriad of folks who do not surf the U of M site or even the web regularly? What about FREE advertising like calling all the print and electronic media outlets in this REGION and offering to give them a story? What about paying for billboards, ads in print media, radio spots? Spend SOME money to make some money. Is there anything in the budget for that?
I was told RC is really wanting this project to succeed. I politely said I will reserve my comments on RC.
So, some of you brave souls, why don't you call the Marketing Department, the TSF, Shirley's office, and RC's office and ask exactly what they are doing to get the word out about this campaign. I doubt very many people, beyond the Tiger diehards, have a clue about it.

21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:

I talked to the "Marketing" table at Fan Fair, and when I asked exactly what was being done to let the public in this region know about this fund drive, I was told it was really the job of the TSF. ????? They said it had been published on the U of M web site, and that there would be some publicity at the football games. I am waiting with bated breath to see what that will consist of!
I said what about the general public who did not even go to the U of M but are football fans? What about that myriad of folks who do not surf the U of M site or even the web regularly? What about FREE advertising like calling all the print and electronic media outlets in this REGION and offering to give them a story? What about paying for billboards, ads in print media, radio spots? Spend SOME money to make some money. Is there anything in the budget for that?
I was told RC is really wanting this project to succeed. I politely said I will reserve my comments on RC.
So, some of you brave souls, why don't you call the Marketing Department, the TSF, Shirley's office, and RC's office and ask exactly what they are doing to get the word out about this campaign. I doubt very many people, beyond the Tiger diehards, have a clue about it.

yours is a legitimate major concern. just like with the OCS, it looks like the administration is going to leave it up to fans to take charge and get the work done. Don't look for RC to have TSF or the athletic department to make this a priority.

ChattTiger Wrote:

21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:

I talked to the "Marketing" table at Fan Fair, and when I asked exactly what was being done to let the public in this region know about this fund drive, I was told it was really the job of the TSF. ????? They said it had been published on the U of M web site, and that there would be some publicity at the football games. I am waiting with bated breath to see what that will consist of!
I said what about the general public who did not even go to the U of M but are football fans? What about that myriad of folks who do not surf the U of M site or even the web regularly? What about FREE advertising like calling all the print and electronic media outlets in this REGION and offering to give them a story? What about paying for billboards, ads in print media, radio spots? Spend SOME money to make some money. Is there anything in the budget for that?
I was told RC is really wanting this project to succeed. I politely said I will reserve my comments on RC.
So, some of you brave souls, why don't you call the Marketing Department, the TSF, Shirley's office, and RC's office and ask exactly what they are doing to get the word out about this campaign. I doubt very many people, beyond the Tiger diehards, have a clue about it.

yours is a legitimate major concern. just like with the OCS, it looks like the administration is going to leave it up to fans to take charge and get the work done. Don't look for RC to have TSF or the athletic department to make this a priority.

At this point, I think we all have to take responsibility for spreading the word. If you e-mail the gotigersgo.com link that talks about this campaign to every Tiger fan you know, and ask them to contribute and pass this on to every Tiger fan they know, word will get spread faster.

Now 92 pledges total $ 89, 300 with an average of $970.

Responded to the poll and put mine in the mail today.

3601 Wrote:

Responded to the poll and put mine in the mail today.

I'm glad to see that folks continue to add to this total. Right now we have
96 pledges that total $ 95,800. Avg $998 per pledge.

This is coming pretty close to an average of $1000 per donation.

I hear that when the mt.org board moved to this location several years ago (before my time on the board), we had around 1000 members. If that is true, then we should have many more Tiger posters today. If the number is in the thousands and just 96 folks have pledged, then we still have a long way to go to get pledges from all the Memphis fans on the board.

C'mon folks. We've got 99 pledges listed. Who will make it 100?

Still at 99 pledges. Total pledged $96900

Avg pledge - $979

Economy is too bad to be spending money on some football team

Dynamos Wrote:

Economy is too bad to be spending money on some football team

For those who truly could not afford to give, I say "May God bless you."

If you can afford it but choose not to, then "you get what you pay for".

my vote is in, and the "check is in the mail" this week.

any of us who have pushed for an OCS as hard as we have need to put our money where our mouth is. it doesn't have to be near the same level that you were going to put toward an OCS, but we need to show that we're serious about improving the program.

covingtontiger Wrote:

Still at 99 pledges. Total pledged $96900

Avg pledge - $979

according to the paper the other day, we are at 1.9 out of three that is needed. should have this wrapped up by the end of september. we need to make memphis football as great as baskeetball. our AD department would reap more benifit for football to get on the ball. We can make this a winner and a money maker.

Latest info is:

101 pledges now total $107,000

average $1059 per pledge.

Is it possible that every single person who donated also responded to this poll? That seems very unlikely.

Bill83 Wrote:

Dang it, I should have read the post below, I selected the annual not the total. oh, well.

Well me to, should have selected a higher amount.

There is something very strange going on. Most of these are small donations. Lansden said most of the donations were $25,000.

Judy of R.C.'s office told me some of the bigger donors are scaling back their donations because of the economy.

McArtor of Marketing told me today that all the money has come in, already paid. I said, "You mean it is pledged, right?" She said, no, it was her understanding it is paid.

Is it possible that someone is big time lying to us?

21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:

Is it possible that someone is big time lying to us?

Maybe it's more confusion, lack of organization and ineptitude than dishonestly.