(12-29-2012 08:54 PM)One Of The Last Buc Linemen Wrote:  ok, im right now listening to the belmont vs. ucf game online and got curious about ucf. i thought ucf sounded familiar and i was right because they just won the beef obradies bowl and, yes, they are a former atlantic sun member. they were asun for 13 years until 2005, then cusa, and heading to big east in 2013 (i wonder if they still will with the big e shuffle).


what does 7 years after leaving the asun look like?


45,000 seats



and 10,000 seats




btw, looks like belmonts gonna lose. down by 13 with 7 mins left

I think that we can all agree that building a state of the art football stadium and basketball arena are high on our wish lists moving forward but I can't help but wonder how realistic it is for us to gain the sort of success as UCF.
After all, If recent history serves as any barometer for future success then what hope do we have after looking back on all of the poorly run capital campaign projects and seemingly apathetic attitude to the concerns and support of life long ETSU fans.

Can anyone think of any wildly successful capital campaigns started by any other athletic departments?

I've wanted to contribute to the the athletic department in the past but there are a few things that keep me from giving the university my hard earned cash.

For one, I want to give what I want to give to; I don't want to give my money to a general fund to be distributed evenly across the board. If I'm going to lay down $1k then I want to know that it's going towards the thing that I want improved.. to be more specific I want to know that my money will go towards building a basketball arena and a football stadium. I hope that the future A.D. keeps this in mind when establishing future capital campaigns or organizations that operated like BASA.

(01-21-2013 08:42 PM)Youre my boy blue! Wrote:  Can anyone think of any wildly successful capital campaigns started by any other athletic departments?

Well, Tulane, as discussed on the old SoCon board. (And there have been others.) They had a HUGE, QUICK fund-raising campaign to save football. I used it as an example to show how it could have been done here, had there been the will do to so.
As I've said many, many times, stanton raised $6+ million to start the pharmacy school in a few months; he could have dang well raised $1 million to save football if he'd had just a minimal urge to do so.