Gedney to get some help

[rrlbees]

SU hiring 2 more people for the fundraising and donor department. No doubt targeting the heavy hitters. They need to figure out how to attract the average fan too. These go along with the new academic support position and compliance position. They're also hiring an athletics HR person.

 

[Rocco]

 

[orangenauburn]

In all seriousness - the athletic dept has become a bureaucratic mess. They have hired a dozen directors, associate directors, and what not - they have hired outside firms ... yet they continue to strike out on many basic, simple levels.

I hope all these hires are going to start reeling in some big fish donors, because the little guys are getting squeezed out - and the football program is teetering on the edge of losing the locals interest.

Winning cures all is the philosophy -- they better win this year or the coming years will be an even larger embarrassment in the stands

 

[OttoForLife]

SU hiring 2 more people for the fundraising and donor department. No doubt targeting the heavy hitters. They need to figure out how to attract the average fan too. These go along with the new academic support position and compliance position. They're also hiring an athletics HR person.

I'm suspect that any new hires would be going after the big fish. In my experience in university fundraising, the majority of major gift prospects are known entities, and from an institutional perspective, the ownership of that relationship is VERY territorial. I'd be shocked that any outsider would be given the keys to the kingdom.

Honestly, the AD needs help in marketing and sales more than anything else.

 

[KaiserUEO]

judging by all the threads on how the local townies hate the Dome...and big donor $$$$ coming in, id expect 4+ games a year to be heading to Giants Stadium!!!

yee-haa!!!

 

[Bayside44]

SU athletics needs and upper middle class of repeat donors that other schools have. Guys that will kick in a few grand a year type, and a lot of them. No reason why a school like ours doesn't have that. The big donors are either known or SU is just hunting and pecking just trying to figure out who made it or who is a big unknown fan with a pot of money.

 

[rrlbees]

SU athletics needs and upper middle class of repeat donors that other schools have. Guys that will kick in a few grand a year type, and a lot of them.

Exactly.

 

[rrlbees]

judging by all the threads on how the local townies hate the Dome...and big donor $$$$ coming in, id expect 4+ games a year to be heading to Giants Stadium!!!

yee-haa!!!

you out of town alumni wouldn't even have a program to root for if not for the locals.

 

[KaiserUEO]

you out of town alumni wouldn't even have a program to root for if not for the locals.

7 games at Giants Stadium then??

good.

hey, the locals are important.

just not important enough that they should demand that this game be at 1, that game be at 5, this other game at 7, a weeknight game on a friday?? ok...but not that friday, this one. start this game at 11am and put that one at 4. oh its on espn, then 8 is good. wait its espnu??? screw that, move it to 330 maybe cbs will pick it up. remember, SU should be play nothing but top level BCS programs and never away, always at home. but not this year, that one, because SU wont be good enough that year...etc, etc, etc.....

 

[sutomcat]

SU hiring 2 more people for the fundraising and donor department. No doubt targeting the heavy hitters. They need to figure out how to attract the average fan too. These go along with the new academic support position and compliance position. They're also hiring an athletics HR person.

Fund raising has been disastrously bad under Dr Gross. Let's hope the new blood helps address the problems. Like others, I would like to see the SU athletic office stop ignoring the small and medium donors. Perhaps they can do better with them than they have with big money donors.

 

[IthacaMatt]

In all seriousness - the athletic dept has become a bureaucratic mess. They have hired a dozen directors, associate directors, and what not - they have hired outside firms ... yet they continue to strike out on many basic, simple levels.

I hope all these hires are going to start reeling in some big fish donors, because the little guys are getting squeezed out - and the football program is teetering on the edge of losing the locals interest.

Winning cures all is the philosophy -- they better win this year or the coming years will be an even larger embarrassment in the stands

It's like they don't care, and in case nobody noticed, it's not like there are buses and buses of NYC people coming to town for the games every Saturday (or, I should say, Wednesday night, and Thursday night and Friday night ...).

 

[IthacaMatt]

7 games at Giants Stadium then??

good.

hey, the locals are important.

just not important enough that they should demand that this game be at 1, that game be at 5, this other game at 7, a weeknight game on a friday?? ok...but not that friday, this one. start this game at 11am and put that one at 4. oh its on espn, then 8 is good. wait its espnu??? screw that, move it to 330 maybe cbs will pick it up. remember, SU should be play nothing but top level BCS programs and never away, always at home. but not this year, that one, because SU wont be good enough that year...etc, etc, etc.....

When was the last time you came up for a football game ?

For somebody who continuously puts down our best player since the 1960s, I find it kind of tedious that you keep putting down the people who made the Syracuse program - the local fans. Syracuse probably gets more non-alumni attendance than any other school in the country.

It's the local fans who continue to support the basketball team, and if this hadn't been a historically bad stretch of football (and the parking and lack of tailgating wasn't so dreadful), they would still be coming out to support the football team. It has been a dreadful, unwatchable product, for almost a generation now.

 

[IthacaMatt]

you out of town alumni wouldn't even have a program to root for if not for the locals.

People like him who look down on the town where his mediocre university happens to be located gets really disgusting after a while.

 

[OrangePA]

Fund raising has been disastrously bad under Dr Gross. Let's hope the new blood helps address the problems. Like others, I would like to see the SU athletic office stop ignoring the small and medium donors. Perhaps they can do better with them than they have with big money donors.

You would really call it disastrous?

I mean the Manley project has been a real positive as far as I can tell and the recent infrastructure projects would seem to indicate some fund raising successes.

Is your post based upon the lack of an indoor practice facility dedicated exclusively to the Football Program?

 

[OrangeCrush22]

Syracuse probably gets more non-alumni attendance than any other school in the country.
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I think this is a stretch. There are plenty of college towns/cities just like Syracuse that heavily support their universities. Louisville, Lexington, Ann Arbor, Columbus, Tuscaloosa, Ft. Worth, Austin, Baton Rouge, etc.

Syracuse is definitely up there for private schools, though. Syracuse, Texas Christian, Notre Dame, and Brigham Young are really the only private schools that own their cities.

 

[KaiserUEO]

When was the last time you came up for a football game ?

For somebody who continuously puts down our best player since the 1960s, I find it kind of tedious that you keep putting down the people who made the Syracuse program - the local fans. Syracuse probably gets more non-alumni attendance than any other school in the country.

It's the local fans who continue to support the basketball team, and if this hadn't been a historically bad stretch of football (and the parking and lack of tailgating wasn't so dreadful), they would still be coming out to support the football team. It has been a dreadful, unwatchable product, for almost a generation now.

2010

i have never put down Freeney. i have made light of the fact Harrison is a flat out gangster who better keep his nose clean for 2 more years so he can get in the Hall.

and YOU SIR, are the King of the locals who give everyone up there a bad name.

you complain about everything.

who they play is not good enough. when they play is never convienent either. you just complained again about tailgaiting and parking (im working on getting you your 2 spots right outside gate C, 1 for the loo and grill, the other for your car...both covered. and all of that goes for hoop as well.

and all us alumni thank you for calling our school mediocre.

i hope you are using that ivy league degree for good use when you are not stoned out of your mind.

remember, your cell phone is tapped and those black helicopters are watching YOU!!

 

[IthacaMatt]

I think this is a stretch. There are plenty of college towns/cities just like Syracuse that heavily support their universities. Louisville, Lexington, Ann Arbor, Columbus, Tuscaloosa, Ft. Worth, Austin, Baton Rouge, etc.

Syracuse is definitely up there for private schools, though. Syracuse, Texas Christian, Notre Dame, and Brigham Young are really the only private schools that own their cities.

No, most of those that you mention are public / state schools. Ohio State has something like 50,000 students. Most fans of state colleges attended the college. You can only really compare the private schools.

 

[IthacaMatt]

2010

i have never put down Freeney. i have made light of the fact Harrison is a flat out gangster who better keep his nose clean for 2 more years so he can get in the Hall.

and YOU SIR, are the King of the locals who give everyone up there a bad name.

you complain about everything.

who they play is not good enough. when they play is never convienent either. you just complained again about tailgaiting and parking (im working on getting you your 2 spots right outside gate C, 1 for the loo and grill, the other for your car...both covered. and all of that goes for hoop as well.

and all us alumni thank you for calling our school mediocre.

i hope you are using that ivy league degree for good use when you are not stoned out of your mind.

remember, your cell phone is tapped and those black helicopters are watching YOU!!

Did you go to Newhouse ? Did you go to Maxwell ? I kind of doubt it; you'd have more class. Syracuse has a handful of really elite programs, but overall it's a safety school for most undergraduate majors if you don't go to one of those colleges. You are definitely one of those kids whose parents put him through school.

There's a certain percentage of students who go to SU, mostly from the metro NYC area, who are snotty little shits who look down their nose at this city and the people who live here. Granted, Syracuse's heyday ended about 40 years ago, but there are a lot of people in this city who give a lot of time and effort to educate ignorant young s like you. Sometimes it takes, sometimes it doesn't. But the people who live in this town have more respect by a mile than you do.

One more point, about the "complaining" about lack of parking. How many other football stadiums in this country don't have a freaking PARKING LOT ?? How hard is that ?

 

[Scooch]

Fund raising has been disastrously bad under Dr Gross. Let's hope the new blood helps address the problems. Like others, I would like to see the SU athletic office stop ignoring the small and medium donors. Perhaps they can do better with them than they have with big money donors.

I'd really love to hear more about this, if people feel comfortable talking. I've assumed Gross is doing well on the fundraising front. If he's not, that's a big deal I imagine.

 

[rrlbees]

i have never put down Freeney.

i see what you did there.

 

[KaiserUEO]

Did you go to Newhouse ? Did you go to Maxwell ? I kind of doubt it; you'd have more class. Syracuse has a handful of really elite programs, but overall it's a safety school for most undergraduate majors if you don't go to one of those colleges. You are definitely one of those kids whose parents put him through school.

There's a certain percentage of students who go to SU, mostly from the metro NYC area, who are snotty little shits who look down their nose at this city and the people who live here. Granted, Syracuse's heyday ended about 40 years ago, but there are a lot of people in this city who give a lot of time and effort to educate ignorant young s like you. Sometimes it takes, sometimes it doesn't. But the people who live in this town have more respect by a mile than you do.

One more point, about the "complaining" about lack of parking. How many other football stadiums in this country don't have a freaking PARKING LOT ?? How hard is that ?

so what you are saying is some SU degrees are ok, others dont meet your standards. there seems to be a pattern here...

not a shocker coming from you. i shouldve known your little red pen knows no boundaries.

Oh Lord