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per Sid:
“With football, being back on campus helps a lot now. I don’t know, I think the Metrodome hurt, but I don’t know how much. I think we just got behind and now we’re catching up.”
Teague, who has not raised a lot of money since being named Gophers AD, was asked how fundraising here compares with his former job at Virginia Commonwealth.
“I think it is tough anywhere, you just have to get after it and dream big and tell your donors that you’re dreaming big and hope that they’ll hop on the dream with you,” he said. “I guess for lack of a better way of explaining it, people are the same, they want to give to things that they’re passionate about and we have to sell that to the Nth degree over the next five, six, seven years.”
Teague also said he did not have any second thoughts about releasing such a big figure for his proposal.
“I really wanted to get it out and show what we were doing,” he said. “It’s a big number, but then again, as I’ve said in some press reports earlier in the week, Northwestern is doing a $220 million one and they’ve raised about $50 million. If they can do it, we can. We have some strong prospects out there. We just have to work hard at what we’re selling and present it as a great return on an investment.
“If we win on the national level with football and basketball, I’m not sure we can measure the great response we’d receive and the great shot in the arm it would give to the state and the Twin Cities in so many ways, and the university. … We’ve got multiple years to work on this thing and we’re starting to build that case and move forward.”
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/215466221.html
Go Gophers!!
“With football, being back on campus helps a lot now. I don’t know, I think the Metrodome hurt, but I don’t know how much. I think we just got behind and now we’re catching up.”
Teague, who has not raised a lot of money since being named Gophers AD, was asked how fundraising here compares with his former job at Virginia Commonwealth.
“I think it is tough anywhere, you just have to get after it and dream big and tell your donors that you’re dreaming big and hope that they’ll hop on the dream with you,” he said. “I guess for lack of a better way of explaining it, people are the same, they want to give to things that they’re passionate about and we have to sell that to the Nth degree over the next five, six, seven years.”
Teague also said he did not have any second thoughts about releasing such a big figure for his proposal.
“I really wanted to get it out and show what we were doing,” he said. “It’s a big number, but then again, as I’ve said in some press reports earlier in the week, Northwestern is doing a $220 million one and they’ve raised about $50 million. If they can do it, we can. We have some strong prospects out there. We just have to work hard at what we’re selling and present it as a great return on an investment.
“If we win on the national level with football and basketball, I’m not sure we can measure the great response we’d receive and the great shot in the arm it would give to the state and the Twin Cities in so many ways, and the university. … We’ve got multiple years to work on this thing and we’re starting to build that case and move forward.”
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/215466221.html
Go Gophers!!