Coyle on finding a big fish donor: We’re still in the boat trying to find that big fish. We still have a hook in the water.

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disco said:
What are you even talking about now?
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I was trying to fathom what possibly could have been a reason for a negative reaction to my correct analysis of Coyle's spineless, gutless response to this question.

All I could come up with was that not being able to land a mega donor for sports was somehow taken a reflection on the quality of our university. Which is of course absurd
 


GopherGrit said:
I was trying to fathom what possibly could have been a reason for a negative reaction to my correct analysis of Coyle's spineless, gutless response to this question.

All I could come up with was that not being able to land a mega donor for sports was somehow taken a reflection on the quality of our university. Which is of course absurd
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Probably your sense of self superiority and angsty superlatives. You come across like the comic book guy from the Simpsons and your posts are exponentially more hilarious when I read them with that voice in my head
 

GopherGrit said:
Also, since it seems that somehow some posters are imagining this: having a mega booster for sports ... has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the school. As in the actual institution. The thing that actually matters. N o t h i n g

So it's absurd to think or imply that suggesting that we'll never have such a booster is somehow a reflection/commentary on the school itself. Nonsense


You think because Cody Campbell is some psycho rich oilman trying to buy Texas Tech a natty ... that that means TT is a good school? LOL
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Who are you arguing with? I don't think any person would correlate NIL spend and institutional quality.
 



mngg11 said:
Probably your sense of self superiority and angsty superlatives. You come across like the comic book guy from the Simpsons and your posts are exponentially more hilarious when I read them with that voice in my head
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Feels like such a bizarre reach/projection that I will have to assume you have me confused with someone else. I've very strangely gotten that feeling on this forum from time to time.
 

Unregistered User said:
I think it's an even bigger challenge than that. In the Twin Cities, the Gophers aren't just competing with pro sports for dollars, they're competing against the entire entertainment dollar.

Between the Vikings, Twins, Timberwolves, Wild, Loons, a huge theater and arts scene, concerts, and countless other options, there's a lot of competition for people's time and money. I know from when I worked for the Timberwolves, and talking to friends that have worked for other teams, they never talked about the "Sports Dollar", it was always competing for the "Entertainment Dollar".

Unlocking more small-dollar support probably means figuring out how to stand out in a very crowded entertainment market, not just a crowded sports market.
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I think the answer for the U is probably pretty straightforward and its to make it personal. your state, your team, your fanbase and do by connecting players/stories with fans directly as much as possible. whatever family of the game is silly. make it a NIL/scholarship donor who gets field passes (everyone who enters gets an entry). more events hosted for those donors (not just the big fish or a certain dollar threshold). Let them make a personalized jersey that's actually authentic.
Yeah you lose a little bit back of what they donate, but it hooks them in. The Gopher Score perks are mediocre at best, and almost entirely gone by the time people near the bottom select for anything remotely premier (not to mention they don't tell you the day the event is prior to selecting, so you may miss the thing you pick).

they're never going to compete based on talent, glitz, and glam. the money and product is just not the same (like the Vikings make $600mil in revenue vs our whole ath dept at 160). But pride that permeates across a state is what you have to try sell imo and win as many small time donors (oddly enough, some of those small time folks go to your school, graduate, and make it big and turn into those big time folks). while i get the fascination with getting hung up on the "big fish" (and not saying this to you specifically), with our metro market comparatively with the whole state, they need to figure out how to get the grass roots donations up and running vastly better as well

Lastly, Coyle needs to find anyone else to try do this. He is not an inspiring speaker
 

^ Coyle is not actually doing anything. "Leaving a hook in the water" is like saying "yeah sure, we'd love to have one if one magically fell out of the sky into our laps".

There's not really anything to do.

People who donate that much money to a college athletics team ... do so for entirely irrational reasons with zero expectation of ROI beyond that team winning.

They do it entirely independent of who the athletic director is. They don't get "talked into it".
 
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