How to donate to women's basketball specifically for revenue sharing purposes. Please pin for women...

[llandz]

Here is how to donate to the specific women's basketball revenue sharing fund for now. Link and then directions.
1.https://secure.syr.edu/s/1632/17/form/form.aspx?sid=1632&gid=2&pgid=2328&cid=4557
2.Then scroll down to to check the box "Choose Another Athletics Fund" (last of 4 choices)
3. A box should pop up. Scroll ALL THE WAY DOWN to "Other Athletic Funds" and then check "Athletic Competitive Excellence Women's Basketball"
4. Hit Continue and then next and it will take you to the payment page.
At some point you will have put in your donation amount and name etc. Mine is saved so not sure if at #2, #3 or #4.
ANd that is how you donate specifically to the revenue sharing fund just for women's basketball.

 

[AngryOtto]

Went and made a donation to the women’s coaches fund. Everyone needs to donate something to support Coach Jack and the players. Even if it’s only $10 or $20 dollars everything helps. Support the team. If a 1,000 fans gave only $10 that would add an additional $10,000. May not seem like a lot but everyone’s donation helps.

 

[llandz]

Went and made a donation to the women’s coaches fund. Everyone needs to donate something to support Coach Jack and the players. Even if it’s only $10 or $20 dollars everything helps. Support the team. If a 1,000 fans gave only $10 that would add an additional $10,000. May not seem like a lot but everyone’s donation helps.

Just you understand Coaches fund can not be used for player retention. It is for her operating expenses. Last year used the funds for a conference table. I gave instructions above for the women's basketball revenue sharing fund, and that is where I donated today. I worked on this with the athletic department.

 

[CoopSwoop]

I made donations to both. Small but I can't make games anymore, still want to support.

 

[AngryOtto]

Just you understand Coaches fund can not be used for player retention. It is for her operating expenses. Last year used the funds for a conference table. I gave instructions above for the women's basketball revenue sharing fund, and that is where I donated today. I worked on this with the athletic department.

I’ll make another donation.

 

[llandz]

Because it was hard to find the revenue sharing part, I think pretty much all of the quarter million raised today was for the coaches fund. But I am sure Felicia will be creative in how she can use that money to help grow the program. I think they can use it to help players with travel expenses, at least for emergenies for ex. Maybe she can even use it for additional staff or travelling to talk to recruits. No matter what, people heard her and responded. That is great.

 

[AngryOtto]

Because it was hard to find the revenue sharing part, I think pretty much all of the quarter million raised today was for the coaches fund. But I am sure Felicia will be creative in how she can use that money to help grow the program. I think they can use it to help players with travel expenses, at least for emergenies for ex. Maybe she can even use it for additional staff or travelling to talk to recruits. No matter what, people heard her and responded. That is great.

Hopefully the school takes that in consideration and gives her more money for nil.

 

[KellySyracuse]

Because it was hard to find the revenue sharing part, I think pretty much all of the quarter million raised today was for the coaches fund. But I am sure Felicia will be creative in how she can use that money to help grow the program. I think they can use it to help players with travel expenses, at least for emergenies for ex. Maybe she can even use it for additional staff or travelling to talk to recruits. No matter what, people heard her and responded. That is great.

I was able to donate using the link you provided, thank you for getting that pinned. Did they post the amount of money raised yesterday somewhere?

 

[CuseLegacy]

https://campaign.syr.edu/syracuse-university-giving-day/

An amazing amount for the ladies of $243,158.00

 

[CuseLegacy]

Yeesh.

 

[Consigliere]

Really don't like that the revenue sharing cap is across all sports. I would much prefer a sport specific cap. Absent that it becomes a zero sum game where earmarking a donation for women's basketball implies that there is less to devote to football or men's soccer. That gets compounded when you compare a program like Syracuse trying to build a competitive football program to a St. John's that doesn;t have nearlyb as many mouths to feed.

 

[KellySyracuse]

Yeesh.

Yikes

"head coach Dawn Staley’s program has lost an average of $5.75 million annually — and no deficit was larger than that from FY25. Last season, the Gamecocks’ WBB program was $6.24 million in the red, losing over $600,000 more than it did in FY24. But, in reviewing financial data from 15 of 16 SEC schools (Vanderbilt doesn’t have to release a report to the NCAA because it’s a private school), The State found that five SEC women’s basketball programs operated at a larger deficit that South Carolina in FY25: LSU (minus-$8 million), Texas (minus-$7.5 million), Ole Miss (minus-$7.4 million), Kentucky (minus-$6.6 million) and Arkansas (minus-$6.4 million)."

 

[KellySyracuse]

also this

"What changed was the premium seating. During the 2024-25 season, a premium seat at mid-court was $375 for the entire season. This season, those same seats cost $1,900 for the year. Even more drastic: Courtside season tickets jumped from $650 to $2,450, which is the exact amount USC charges for the men’s games."

 

[llandz]

So Kelly. Are we going to pay $2450 for our floor seats? Well I certainly am not since I live in AZ. I don't see many paying that in Syracuse. So we don't have that option. Plus we are talking about teams that actually put fans in the seats. We don't do that either. I think they need to market getting more fans in seats at Syracuse. I also have seasons at ASU and the game experience between SU and ASU is night and day. While they don't fill up, they get a decent number of fans. Probably triple what SU gets. BUt they do a lot of promotions, and the team intro uses a flame shooting out of 2 things. I don't know what to call them, but the lights are low, and it is dramatic. They also use the curtain of distraction which became big during men's games, and the student group now does it at women's games also.

 

[KellySyracuse]

So Kelly. Are we going to pay $2450 for our floor seats? Well I certainly am not since I live in AZ. I don't see many paying that in Syracuse. So we don't have that option. Plus we are talking about teams that actually put fans in the seats. We don't do that either. I think they need to market getting more fans in seats at Syracuse. I also have seasons at ASU and the game experience between SU and ASU is night and day. While they don't fill up, they get a decent number of fans. Probably triple what SU gets. BUt they do a lot of promotions, and the team intro uses a flame shooting out of 2 things. I don't know what to call them, but the lights are low, and it is dramatic. They also use the curtain of distraction which became big during men's games, and the student group now does it at women's games also.

I would be hard pressed to pay that much for my courtside seat. The promotions on game day have been really, really lacking during the Wildhack era. When he first started as AD they would have receptions behind the curtain and in the Hidden Level, all of that stopped after Covid. Having the 44 open year round helps but there is nothing else with the exception of the random tshirt giveaway as far as promotions go. I can't remember the last time they had the bring your dog day. Attendance is much better than it used to be but there are are a myriad of ways to raise money and promote the team that they haven't done. I'm looking forward to the BB era.

 

[hoopsupstate]

You can bet that Blair is going to promote the heck out of Ouche. She’s a start to work with.