Wow! Apparently all of the A through Si folks were not notified. Not good business.Originally Posted by Dawg06
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Wow! Apparently all of the A through Si folks were not notified. Not good business.
No it wasn't. But to them it was all about perception.
Instead of TOUTING the giving for the SEZ facility and down playing the slight decrease coming off a HORRIBLE year in football, they chose to lump it together...
That's why I think we needed a "BRICKS AND BONES" capital campaign for brick and mortar projects that was separate from LTAC -
Serves two main purposes -
1) doesn't eat away at your LTAC giving which is used to pay operating expenses and major salaries
2) honors those who go above and beyond for the CAPITAL improvement side
It's like tithing and capital fund raising for a church (or any other not for profit) - you don't want to cut into your tithes for a BIG project, you want them to be on top of your regular tithes
Just not much forethought put into the process from day one - it would of been very beneficial to bring in a fundraising group and pay them the $XXX,XXX to go and get the 20MM and let our LTAC employees continue their work on the regular sustaining gifts for LTAC
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
There's not much of perk difference between booster to varsity level.
Varsity Level ($299-499)
Tax Deduction - not a perk from the school
Athletic Email - whooptie-doo, they send those out to everyone
Access to Special Event - what LTAC members only events have they hosted?
Car Decal - awesome, but I rather have a state-T decal
Game Program Recognition - thanks.
Opportunity to purchase chairbacks - There's no chairbacks to purchase, I heard there's a waiting list.
There should be some lifetime giving perks and a way to check your donor points also...
And it should be retroactive to the Athletic Club of Tech days
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
Lifetime giving levels -
$10k
$50k
$100k
$250k
$500k
$1MM
$5MM
$10MM
$25MM plus
It's just a thought - but I think it would be good to have this
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
When we made parking donors-only, our membership significantly went up from back in the CHAMPS days. Looking at the membership list, Varsity Level makes up a huge chunk of LTAC because of the C lot parking perk. Givers at this range will either have to fork up more money or not have the parking perk. I think we will see a significant drop in the Varsity Level giving and a small bump to the Trophy level.
We might see a drop in overall LTAC membership.
I think the below would be a great solution to minimize the risk of losing members.
Cash Lot
Softball Parking Lot
Intramural Field near soccer
D Lot
Rugby Field
C Lot
existing lot taking over D Lot corner
B Lot
existing lot with expansion into C
A Lot
existing lot
Cash Lot Waiver Young $50 Cash Lot Waiver Booster 100-249 D Varsity 250-499 C Trophy 500-999 B Champion 1000-2499 A Director 2500-4999 A President 5000-9000 Valet Golden 10000+
I think they just priced out a lot of younger alumni who may not have the financial ability to justify a $500 donation.
I have been donating to LTAC (albeit somewhat small amounts) since I graduated in 2009. I could justify the extra cost for the young alumni level because A) it got me buy-one-get-one season tickets, and B) I got access to a parking pass. I have one more year left in Young Alumni and was planning ahead to paying the $300 to get the C-Lot pass so I could continue tailgating in the lot. Now, There is no incentive to increase my giving whatsoever because $500 is probably out of the question for us, and there are no other perks for the 2 levels inbetween. This blows.
I'm afraid you may be right. Wouldn't surprise me to see a lot of people opt to pay the $10-20 and walk an extra hundred yards.
It'd be nice if they offered an option to park in a reserved lot on campus then ride one of those Six-Flags style trams to the stadium.
I went up to the booster level last year for the first time, but I doubt I will be going up to keep my C lot pass due to insecurity in my industry also I still park in the D-lot anyway. I am still 3 years away from young alumni elgibility expiring so I guess it doesn't matter yet.
I think qng's idea definitely seems promising as a viable change to the current structure, but then again he likely wasn't asked for input before the changes were announced.
I see no real positives of this change.
It seems that parking passes were a problem due to over selling. Over selling had never really been a problem until this year at the NSU game. I think they really caught a lot of crap over it. So they are solving this rare problem and creating a greater problem. Is our AD the one calling these shots?
My dad likes to gripe about it. Parking, for Lot A anyway, has been an issue for a decade or better. It may have been better lately due to the fact that you don't see LG reserving 15 spaces for friends of the prez the way DR did. Those spots were never filled. Hhhmm, curious.
I guess we should be happy that parking across the board is an issue now.
Fixed it.
Thanks MD, an unintended oversight on my part. We need to be sure and give him credit where due, right?
TMac talked about changes to LTAC as far back as September. No excuse that they weren't revealed by at least Homecoming.Would have been nice to know this at the beginning of this year (July 1st 2014) so I could have upped my monthly payments... now I have 5 months to almost double my giving to retain my parking pass for next year.
Because the change in timetable is so extreme and is being finalized so late, LTAC pledges made by June 30 should be considered in addition to current year (July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015) actual contributions to determine LTAC 2015-2016 benefits. Otherwise what DFM mentioned will happen, and that could alienate those impacted for several years if not longer. And that is something Tech cannot afford right now.
I fit this category.
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