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GOALS, GOALS, GOALS.............
and we don't mean hockey pucks

We've just discovered an interesting parallel between the search for a new WMU FB coach, some goals stated, and the lack of stated goals with the demise of a functioning Alumni Association.

I suppose somewhere there's a mathematical genius that could develop a model to solve these issues, but it's obvious, to at least a few of us, that there are a few "fixed factors" in the over all equation.
Several comments have approached this dilemma by restating the obvious place that WMU belongs in the collection of schools in Michigan, the mid-west, and in the National Registry of Directional Schools.
Fifty States times four directions per state {some have more, some have less) equal two hundred possibilities? (50X4=200)
Kalamazoo? WMU?, never heard of it.

Other possible factors are the size of the school, number of alumni, average alumni income, number of professional schools, functioning Alumni Association, and various other factors to numerous to mention.
You can only wrest so much money out of telephone solicitation too.
Some of these factors are not going to change in the near future, if ever.
Simply stating that we need to do something about attendance at football games, so let's fire the FB coach, and hope everything works out, as a solution, does make one wonder about the decision making process,
and who's calling the shots?
Risk Management, anyone? Who's really in charge? Anybody?
Besides it's not about attendance, it's about the money.

The shortsightedness of only dealing with immediate concerns, short term goals, and not be concerned with mid-range and long-term goals, and effects, would seem to be the case as with the Collection Agency,
aka the non-functioning Alumni Association.
This does reflect a lack of Planning and Goal setting abilities beyond collecting money.
Is WMU simply unwilling or incapable of operating a functioning Alumni Association?
Maybe it would "pay" to look at other factors in the equation!
This Reactive Management style of governance certainly reflects a regressive retreat into mediocrity. OR, maybe things have always been Provincially Mediocre?

Perhaps, respecting all WMU Alumni by operating a functioning Alumni Association, instead of treating WMU Alumni as simply "CASH COWS" to be manipulated into parting
with their money, might play a significant role in filling those empty seats in Waldo Stadium. Attendance..........

This could be the beginning of overcoming the damage currently being done to Alumni Relations.

There have been over 550 visits to this thread since the last posting.

What do you think?


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