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<blockquote data-quote="Vespidae" data-source="post: 1006694" data-attributes="member: 2957"><p>Doubtful. While there are perhaps, a few thousand donors to A-T, only about 10 (yes, t-e-n) really move the needle. Even TStan, when asked, said he had no plans to increase "fund-raising" because he could simply call 10 or so donors and get what he needed. I did a study on it a few years ago and he wasn't wrong. (That's why when CPJ needed a new locker room, he simply called one donor and asked and got $6 million to do so.)</p><p></p><p>Schools like Oregon, Tennessee, Texas A&M, etc have donors who write $100 million dollar checks to the football program. Tech has generous alumni and we do well for our size, but nowhere near what some of these schools can do. This doesn't happen in basketball because it doesn't take much to run a top-notch basketball program. </p><p></p><p>Having said all of that, I think the smart thing to do is to re-organize college athletics into tiers based on resources (e.g., enrollment, fanbase, budget, etc) much like high schools do. But they probably won't. In that case, should the ACC survive the FSU/Clemson lawsuits, they may very well evolve into a smarter version of the Ivy League ... still D1, attractive to media partners, but not a dominant football conference. (Typical business evolution ... Nrs 1 and 2 dominate, 3 muddles along, there's a shakeout for all of the rest.) </p><p></p><p>It's interesting to watch ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vespidae, post: 1006694, member: 2957"] Doubtful. While there are perhaps, a few thousand donors to A-T, only about 10 (yes, t-e-n) really move the needle. Even TStan, when asked, said he had no plans to increase "fund-raising" because he could simply call 10 or so donors and get what he needed. I did a study on it a few years ago and he wasn't wrong. (That's why when CPJ needed a new locker room, he simply called one donor and asked and got $6 million to do so.) Schools like Oregon, Tennessee, Texas A&M, etc have donors who write $100 million dollar checks to the football program. Tech has generous alumni and we do well for our size, but nowhere near what some of these schools can do. This doesn't happen in basketball because it doesn't take much to run a top-notch basketball program. Having said all of that, I think the smart thing to do is to re-organize college athletics into tiers based on resources (e.g., enrollment, fanbase, budget, etc) much like high schools do. But they probably won't. In that case, should the ACC survive the FSU/Clemson lawsuits, they may very well evolve into a smarter version of the Ivy League ... still D1, attractive to media partners, but not a dominant football conference. (Typical business evolution ... Nrs 1 and 2 dominate, 3 muddles along, there's a shakeout for all of the rest.) It's interesting to watch ... [/QUOTE]
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