Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
It's a double edged sword. I do agree that our older boosters are far too involved and want to stick their nose in too many things, but I know I myself can't give the money they are giving. I have been talking with a few people trying to get some sort of out of state/younger alumni 120 club going because trust me, there's mega money for MSU outside the walls of MS that we just have refused to tap into. We also do a shit job with younger alumni so if we can combine those forces together, we may have something.
It's a double edged sword to an extent simply because we have people not wanting to contribute to offset the amounts given by the big boosters. I agree that we do a horrible job of tapping into younger money state grads out of state etc. But if it weren't for the big donors that may be too involved we wouldn't have a program at all. Until we are matching what they do for the university nobody should bitch about how the big boosters spend their money with our programs.

Unfortunately, I don't see a current path for us to bring in more NIL from out of state as we are terrible at the social media game and other than an email once a month we don't get the word out on anything.

I get more OM NIL propaganda on social media and regular mail than I do State and I graduated from State.