Should we do crowd funding as a university?

[GermDawg]

Has been brought up several times. The answer every time is we don't have chapters per se. I tried organizing Dallas a couple of years ago and there was little follow through. I put together the games watching parties for 3-4 years but it got harder and harder to find places willing to show our games.

The biggest hurdle is they always wanted to have Houston or Dallas be one group. It doesn't work like that in big cities especially ones as spread out as those two. There needs to be several chapters in the DFW area or the greater Houston area and they can come together on certain projects and events.

You could easily have Dallas, North Dallas, and Fort Worth. You could have a 3-4 in Houston as well.

Why not? I don't think their's a legitimate answer to why we don't have Alumni chapters.

[dch028]

I agree, I've always thought we should have Alumni Chapters, setup by the Alumni Association. NWTAG does a great job and was founded on the backs of the alumni, with little help from the Alumni Association, which should be shameful to the Alumni Director. I could easily see us having Alumni Chapters in NOLA, BR, Acadiana (Lafayette-Morgan City), Lake Charles, Houston, and Dallas if they had some support/guidance from the Alumni Association.

They tried a chapter in LC and after two meetings it folded.

[Cool Hand Clyde]

Why not? I don't think their's a legitimate answer to why we don't have Alumni chapters.

Because the alumni association staff is small and it falls on 1 or 2 people in the area to do all the work.

[Dwayne From Minden]

Because the alumni association staff is small and it falls on 1 or 2 people in the area to do all the work.

This -

2% of the people do 98% of the work

[HogDawg]

As GermDawg would say........WHY? Its not as if LTAC hasn't made enough money over the years to justify a larger staff.

[GermDawg]

Because the alumni association staff is small and it falls on 1 or 2 people in the area to do all the work.

Ok, hire more staff, Alumni Director should put together a Long Range Plan (# of alumni assoc. memberships (first time and total), # of activities/functions in areas, charitable goals, etc) with goals and the staffing levels/support needed to achieve them. Get support from the Foundation in paying salaries, in the short term, then as alumni association grows move over to supporting itself.

These mindsets of that's how its always been done is exactly what bogged down Tech athletics for so long.

[Cool Hand Clyde]

The alumni association is separate from LTAC, and the University basically funds the alumni association. So much for having a "voice for the alumni".

I hope everyone is a dues paying member but that does not come close to footing the bill. It's easy to say "hire more staff" and "get more from the foundation". It doesn't happen.

[Dawgpix]

The alumni association is separate from LTAC, and the University basically funds the alumni association. So much for having a "voice for the alumni".

I hope everyone is a dues paying member but that does not come close to footing the bill. It's easy to say "hire more staff" and "get more from the foundation". It doesn't happen.

I guess the university's new hire for the Metroplex is chopped liver?
After he gets his recruiting feet on the ground, maybe he can network via alumni.
His (and our) future in the DFW area is so full of potential.

[Cool Hand Clyde]

I guess the university's new hire for the Metroplex is chopped liver?
.

Maybe

[GermDawg]

The alumni association is separate from LTAC, and the University basically funds the alumni association. So much for having a "voice for the alumni".

I hope everyone is a dues paying member but that does not come close to footing the bill. It's easy to say "hire more staff" and "get more from the foundation". It doesn't happen.

WHY? A root cause exists for why our Alumni Association is barely functional and hiding behind it's easy to say is cowardly and lazy.

[HogDawg]

The alumni association is separate from LTAC, and the University basically funds the alumni association. So much for having a "voice for the alumni".

I hope everyone is a dues paying member but that does not come close to footing the bill. It's easy to say "hire more staff" and "get more from the foundation". It doesn't happen.

I knew somebody would say that.......as if that's a reasonable excuse. It's not. LTAC and the alumni assn are heavily intertwined. They even share the same office space. i specifically mentioned LTAC, because it's much more successful than the Alumni House in making it rain around Ruston. The Alumni Assn is a waste. It's terribly run.

[Gladzilla]

I'm gonna punch people if they try to bring the goalposts down. I may even load up on pepper spray. Bringing the post down is a waste of money.

[JuBru]

I'm gonna punch people if they try to bring the goalposts down. I may even load up on pepper spray. Bringing the post down is a waste of money.

Gonna be a long time before we have games worthy of doing that in Ruston.

[Gladzilla]

If they come close, I may be the guy arrested for pouring quickcreate at the base of the posts

[HogDawg]

I'm gonna punch people if they try to bring the goalposts down. I may even load up on pepper spray. Bringing the post down is a waste of money.

Oh good God. You sound like a Ruston cop.

Does everything have to be about money with you people? I hope we have a very good reason to tear a goalpost down. And if we do, well put up another one.