Giving Day link

[Section9_RowD]

For those who may want to contribute, here is link in case you don't have it.

https://www.givecampus.com/schools/...en-basketball?campaign_view=true&/?a=12889109

Select MBB Student Athlete Development Fund if you want your donation headed to Men's NIL payments.

Tax-deductible like any other donation to UR.

I will be giving even though like most of us am more cynical that I wish I was about the state of the program.

 

[SFspidur]

I've been watching men's hoops flail around the regular giving with the lowest number of donors and second-lowest amount of money raised among all of our sports, ahead of only men's tennis in money raised.

I do fully expect some of our big donors to step in near the end and boost the numbers so it doesn't look so embarrassing.

Edit: Maybe somebody can explain to me why one place on the Giving Day page shows men's hoops with $7,000 raised and another with $492,000 raised. They really need to do a better job of setting this up and explaining what counts toward what. I guess everybody is diverting their gifts to the NIL fund, which doesn't count toward the regular giving standings?

 

[Spider17]

Not that anyone cares from our admin about what I think, say, or do but I will not donate a single penny to men’s basketball until we have a leadership change.

 

[brooklyn brownstone]

I assume these numbers are just for trying to generate grass roots interest for M basketball. The NIL crowd has already committed its money.

 

[Spider17]

It does not look like donations specifically towards the NIL count towards the leaderboard among the other sports teams but does count in the overall donation numbers

 

[97spiderfan]

Edit: Maybe somebody can explain to me why one place on the Giving Day page shows men's hoops with $7,000 raised and another with $492,000 raised. They really need to do a better job of setting this up and explaining what counts toward what. I guess everybody is diverting their gifts to the NIL fund, which doesn't count toward the regular giving standings?

Nothing provides a donor with better comfort that their dollar matters than giving 2 totals that are $500,000 apart for total funds raised.

 

[Spider17]

Hopefully this is an extra $500K going towards NIL in addition to whatever the university was going to commit rather than subsidizing the cost.

 

[SFspidur]

I know we had the announcement and everything, but still nice to see proof of life from AA on campus...

https://twitter.com/x/status/2042337813102780500

 

[Spider17]

Looks like $878,600 was raised for men’s basketball. Assuming my thought that the leaderboard does not include NIL money donations (there’s also a difference with women’s basketball that has that option. No other sport had the give to NIL fund and there were no discrepancies) then it should $878,600 - $13,970 = $864,360 for NIL specifically. Hopefully this is in addition to the commitment the school has made but my guess is it’ll subsidize it. Meaning, if the school told Mooney and staff that the plan is for them to operate with $4 million this year, since ~$900K was raised, the school will then fund the $3.1 million rather than the budget being $900K + $4 million = $4.9 million.

Overall, looks like ~$3.3 million was raised where ~$2 million came from athletics donations and ~$900K came from men’s basketball donations. Hopefully the admin sees this as one of the many signs and reasons why cultivating strong athletic programs is important to the university identity.