One Orange Alliance

[BronsonCuse]

NC State website is a perfect starting template. I mean this isn't rocket science to do the bare minimum right.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

a lot of them have struggled, yes, especially the ones that partnered with the now bankrupt entity (SANIL). Syracuse is not unique.

If I was going to model our effort after anyone, it would be LSU which is the most aggressive and successful of the collectives. There's a reason IMO why they let folks choose sports. It's deemed to be more fan friendly.

In the ACC, it looks like NC State, Va Tech, SMU let you designate to specific sports. Several others are undergoing transitions and then the rest are more general models or it's hard to find.

Bottomline, is there a draw back to sport specific? I do not see one.

There is a draw back to the pool. And that was unintentionally made even worse with Blair's comments. IMO it was tone deaf.

 

[richmondcuse03]

Bottomline, is there a draw back to sport specific? I do not see one.

There is a draw back to the pool. And that was unintentionally made even worse with Blair's comments. IMO it was tone deaf.

That's my viewpoint. There is no drawback if it leads to more donations. It increases some administrative effort but honestly, very little because these sites and infrastructures can be stood up in minutes these days.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Can someone with some juice tell the University just how poorly this was done? Big announcement and its a GoFundMe page... I mean seriously you can build a better interface in 1 hour. Second -- just a big donate button. No sport specific. No monthly subscriptions. No plan to incentivize grass roots etc.. I mean Im shocked how haphazard this was done.

Pool vs Specific Sport aside, why are there no monthly subscriptions? This just gets better and better.

 

[FloridaCuse]

Pool vs Specific Sport aside, why are there no monthly subscriptions? This just gets better and better.

A rush to get it out and totally botched.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

So I went to the donation page and beware. There is a 15% tip to the Spotfund website that if you do not pay attention gets added to your total. You can reduce it to $1 but it defaults to 15% and not a dime of that goes to the collective.

 

[whobut03]

Taking a step back at how frustrated I am. What if, this is a "done is better than perfect" situation. Get it set up, then make tweaks based on feedback.

 

[PAcuse]

Taking a step back at how frustrated I am. What if, this is a "done is better than perfect" situation. Get it set up, then make tweaks based on feedback.

Ask the video game industry how that model works out.
Why do not ask the folks that donate first and then make the choices from there.
You can code a website and to the legal stuff in no time.
This is just silly.

 

[whobut03]

Ask the video game industry how that model works out.
Why do not ask the folks that donate first and then make the choices from there.
You can code a website and to the legal stuff in no time.
This is just silly.

Cool. Not saying I agree with it.

 

[UnknownOrange]

Is there something once people get on the hill they get brainwashed into making bad decisions?

One NIL collective makes sense. That was obvious

Your money not being able to go to a specific sport is just so stupid and i don’t really understand it

 

[FloridaCuse]

So I went to the donation page and beware. There is a 15% tip to the Spotfund website that if you do not pay attention gets added to your total. You can reduce it to $1 but it defaults to 15% and not a dime of that goes to the collective.

another impediment to contributing. Come on, isn't there the expertise at the university to set up their own website quickly.

 

[PAcuse]

Cool. Not saying I agree with it.

Sorry wasn't trying to come at you.
Was explaining my frustration with it all.

 

[Ttk.gman2]

 

[Cusefan69]

I am not giving any money if I can't direct it to the sport I want. Hard stop. Hopefully people with connections on the hill share this is no bueno.

 

[Ttk.gman2]

I am not giving any money if I can't direct it to the sport I want. Hard stop. Hopefully people with connections on the hill share this is no bueno.

Blair messed up greatly, I’m out on him.

 

[upperdeck]

didnt the rules say the school cant really be involved in the setup of this stuff?

 

[CuseTroop]

I am not giving any money if I can't direct it to the sport I want. Hard stop. Hopefully people with connections on the hill share this is no bueno.

Judging from day 1's donations, I think a few people agree with you.

$537 today. Chick down the street from me made more today selling homemade vegan carrot cake.

 

[MSOrange]

Now can Fran say this hooked up to a lie detector or under oath? Just a ridiculous setup that you can't donate to a specific sport and I am usually slow to be critical.

 

[richmondcuse03]

Judging from day 1's donations, I think a few people agree with you.

$537 today. Chick down the street from me made more today selling homemade vegan carrot cake.

That is embarassing. And very telling.

They also shouldn't be using that site and having the tip feature. It's not even an actual charitable campaign. That's why you leverage those sites. The model should understand there are credit card fees with a subscription campaign. So much about this is amateur hour.

 

[BVille44]

NC State website is a perfect starting template. I mean this isn't rocket science to do the bare minimum right.

They even give fans “priority points” for donating to NIL.

 

[Consigliere]

a lot of them have struggled, yes, especially the ones that partnered with the now bankrupt entity (SANIL). Syracuse is not unique.

If I was going to model our effort after anyone, it would be LSU which is the most aggressive and successful of the collectives. There's a reason IMO why they let folks choose sports. It's deemed to be more fan friendly.

In the ACC, it looks like NC State, Va Tech, SMU let you designate to specific sports. Several others are undergoing transitions and then the rest are more general models or it's hard to find.

NC State and several of the others cited are clients of BluePrint Sports. If you think SANIL had objectionable administrative fees do a little digging into BPS!

 

[Ttk.gman2]

I’m not going to disagree with yours or anyone else’s personal feelings on the matter. But, I think everyone should go to 5-10 school collective websites that they think are successful at NIL and see how they operate before making comments about this being MAC like, etc.

I haven’t looked at every school certainly, but from what I’ve seen, this model is in the majority.

Look at how many are public and funded by the state lol

 

[Consigliere]

When we were running our tailgate guest program we supported student athletes in several non revenue sports. We expanded an initiative with men’s soccer we had planned to fund additional NIL through Orange United but Coach McIntyre said he would prefer the money be used to support the entire team. It ended up going to his discretionary fund and one of the main things he used it for is additional meal money while on the road. I suspect most non revenue sports feel the same.
Other than football and men’s basketball every other sport is a money pit that relies on those two sports to fund their programs. It makes sense that the vast majority of rev share and NIL goes to those sports.
The one exception is individual corporate deals with marquis athletes from secondary sports that have true value locally in marketing opportunities. Think Joey Spallina or Uche Izoje.

 

[Hawknate144]

When we were running our tailgate guest program we supported student athletes in several non revenue sports. We expanded an initiative with men’s soccer we had planned to fund additional NIL through Orange United but Coach McIntyre said he would prefer the money be used to support the entire team. It ended up going to his discretionary fund and one of the main things he used it for is additional meal money while on the road. I suspect most non revenue sports feel the same.
Other than football and men’s basketball every other sport is a money pit that relies on those two sports to fund their programs. It makes sense that the vast majority of rev share and NIL goes to those sports.
The one exception is individual corporate deals with marquis athletes from secondary sports that have true value locally in marketing opportunities. Think Joey Spallina or Uche Izoje.

Yep, this is what I was kind of saying,

 

[JRHEETER]

Didn’t realize we launched a go fund me page for this.

Yikes