Quote Originally Posted by confucius say View Post
I agree on the original intent but disagree that's where we are now. We have 14k bulldog club members and less than 1400 BI members. OM has I've double that. If we just had 5k monthly BI members giving $50 a month (the average giver gives more than that actually) then that's 3 million yearly before even getting any large donations. We can be okay with 4-5 million yearly. If we want to get players, we have to do our part, and there's no reason everybody can't give at least $10 a month.

We can't rely on the big donor and business was model. We are the smallest fanbase in the league minus Vandy. We will never have the amount of big donors other schools have. Plus you can't keep going back to the same donors over and over again. The message needs to be everybody do your part.
Bulldog Club is a little less than that $10 per month. For many that's an either/or. The fans carrying the weight isn't going to happen. It's not happening anywhere. It's about boosters and business. The smallest fan base argumenet is exactly why we as fans cannot and will not carry the weight of the NIL money. We'd be so far behind everyone if our fan base was our primary support. We're only behind in football. The $10 people put up is going to specific sports. Says a lot about our fans and we've got to get the big money for football somewhere else.
I'm not saying not to contribute. I'm saying if that's our business model, we're screwed.