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And with all of those billionaire donors, it's not like Michigan State has been super successful in football since Dantonio. It's not easy or cheap finding a good coach that can get you to a winning Season. Due to our limited resources and external financial support, the administration needs to be super smart and cautious about who they hire and fire.
By all means please try to convince Woody Johnson to sell the NY Jets organization, so he could use his financial resources to help RU football. It would be a win -win for all involved as long as Zinn and Schiano kept him away from football operations.
Can you list all the donors that can make this type of donations at RU?
Hell, we've got a billionaire or close to it who wrestled here and gives absolute d*ck back. He was giving to Nick Saban instead. That's called your administration doing a piss poor job of cultivating the want to give back.
The first part is Rutgers fault. Fans like winners. And that is no different than anywhere else.
Nope, even his cousin wrestled here and he attended some matches. Goodale is way out of his depth in the NIL game just as the administration is.
I didn’t know who you were talking about. Looks like he met Saban through Mercedes and Saban is a minority partner in his dealerships.
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I think he was referring to Sean DeDeyn.I didn’t know who you were talking about. Looks like he met Saban through Mercedes and Saban is a minority partner in his dealerships.
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Bernie’s story is well documented. He wants nothing to do with RU. Was only “forced” to attend.
So why doesnt he offer to pay to get Saban to come to RU as our coach instead then lol
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He is so full of ****. He was pissed that he was “forced” to go to Rutgers. Always thought he was too good for RU and only went there due to money. For some reason, he held that against Rutgers.<em>Kick Up Some Dust</em> by Bernie Marcus
One of the best ways donors can preserve their intentions is to make their intentions as explicit as possible. The more a donor says about his ideas and passions, the harder it is for his successors to violate donor intent. In his memoir "Kick Up Some Dust." Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home...
Marcus also has advice for prospective grantees. His basic lesson: Don’t waste his time by pretending the “chat” you came to the Marcus Foundation for is anything less than a fundraising pitch.
If you have a meeting with Marcus Foundation staff, he writes, “Don’t lie about your visit. Don’t act like you are just ‘in the neighborhood.’ Be bold and explain what you need and why. Success depends on making your intentions clear. Otherwise, nobody will trust you.”
His case study of bad fundraising is Rutgers. Shortly after Marcus co-founded Home Depot, he received a call from the president of Rutgers inviting him to give a speech to the business school. “But it became really obvious that he wanted me to donate millions to name a building,” Marcus writes.
Marcus explains that the Rutgers president should have let him give the speech, invited Marcus to meet members of the Rutgers board, and then gradually build a connection that would lead to a donation over the long term. Instead, Marcus writes, the Rutgers president “pulled a bait-and switch,” and the deception made sure that the Marcus Foundation checkbook would remain firmly closed to Rutgers University.
“I had two degrees from Rutgers and would likely have become an enthusiastic donor,” Marcus writes. “I was the very definition of low-hanging fruit.”
“I have donated millions to colleges and universities all over the United States for the past 30 years—Johns Hopkins, Emory, Case Western Reserve, and Duke. Note that Rutgers is not on the list.”
What are your sources?
Ouch.<em>Kick Up Some Dust</em> by Bernie Marcus
One of the best ways donors can preserve their intentions is to make their intentions as explicit as possible. The more a donor says about his ideas and passions, the harder it is for his successors to violate donor intent. In his memoir "Kick Up Some Dust." Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home...
Marcus also has advice for prospective grantees. His basic lesson: Don’t waste his time by pretending the “chat” you came to the Marcus Foundation for is anything less than a fundraising pitch.
If you have a meeting with Marcus Foundation staff, he writes, “Don’t lie about your visit. Don’t act like you are just ‘in the neighborhood.’ Be bold and explain what you need and why. Success depends on making your intentions clear. Otherwise, nobody will trust you.”
His case study of bad fundraising is Rutgers. Shortly after Marcus co-founded Home Depot, he received a call from the president of Rutgers inviting him to give a speech to the business school. “But it became really obvious that he wanted me to donate millions to name a building,” Marcus writes.
Marcus explains that the Rutgers president should have let him give the speech, invited Marcus to meet members of the Rutgers board, and then gradually build a connection that would lead to a donation over the long term. Instead, Marcus writes, the Rutgers president “pulled a bait-and switch,” and the deception made sure that the Marcus Foundation checkbook would remain firmly closed to Rutgers University.
“I had two degrees from Rutgers and would likely have become an enthusiastic donor,” Marcus writes. “I was the very definition of low-hanging fruit.”
“I have donated millions to colleges and universities all over the United States for the past 30 years—Johns Hopkins, Emory, Case Western Reserve, and Duke. Note that Rutgers is not on the list.”
Geez, you are batting 0.000 the past few days. Have heard from very good sources and big RU donors how Rutgers blew it with Bernie Marcus. And they still get it wrong with existing and prospective donors. Clueless when it comes to how to ask or set up the ask to the point they turn off prospective large somors.
Which RU president tried the bait and switch? He must really love the school to punish it because one man’s action. There was an article a while back highlighting him as an accomplished alum. His quotes were more about how he got cheated out of Harvard than the fun memories he had at RU. Work with a lot guys like that. They tell you were they went to school followed up by telling you they got into Brown or other Ivy’s but couldn’t afford it.
I don’t doubt that the story with the president was true. I would like to know which president it was. We had a few RU presidents. Why punish the school because one guy?
