(04-04-2022 04:53 PM)uiniu57 Wrote:  For those people misunderstanding pvk75 citing a car show tie-in as an example, they clearly weren't around or don't recall when Tekla Martin was involved in athletics and got her motorcycle friends to come for a game. Were these leather-clad folks all interested in Huskie football, or did she convince them to incorporate "a weekend ride" with coming to DeKalb and NIU?
Believe the bottom line here is that an effort for some sort of marketing at least be tried. Is everything going to be a hit? NO. But it's like the coaching adage: "you miss 100% of the shots you don't attempt."

And what decade, administration was this? Are we talking 100's of athletic donations brought in yearly?