The Event Experience

[ManAboutTown]

Last I checked curing sick kids is getting results. If they weren't successful at getting those results, they wouldn't continue to get the donations they do.

You can choose to look at it however you like.
Even if their results dipped, you'd continue to give because you believe in the cause.
If you continue to shell out thousands with expectation of a good product on the field/court, facilities, etc, and no return, you're just not a good steward of your money. I bet you weren't giving much, if anything, during the toothpick years. No one was. Why? Because the product and subsequent result was abysmal. That would never happen with St. Jude.

[KajunKrazy]

We'll just have to disagree on that. Giving to a cause is different than giving for a result. I don't need trinkets and stroking either. But I do expect my (and your) donations to produce good leadership, upward mobility for student-athletes, updated facilities, communal experiences for residents, better educational opportunities for regular students, academic advancement, world class research, healthier endowment, funding scholarships, etc etc etc.

Success in athletics is a unique catch-all to accomplish all of these goals. Which to me, is a result, not a cause.

OK. Agree with every thing you are saying here. Better things for the student athletes. But my comments were made because people were complaining about the tangible things they did not receive as RCAF members. Those are the things that aren't important to me. Facilities, coaches, support staff, nutrition, supplements, things that make the athletes better is what I care about. Not me getting gifts for my donation. That was my point.

The reason I equated it to a charity for example is just this morning I wrote my annual 132 dollar check to Tunnel to Towers. 11 dollars per month as they ask for. I don't receive anything physically for that, but I can see the smart houses they are building for our disabled vets. Just like I don't need anything physical for my RCAF donation but I like to see winners and new facilities and so on.... That was my only point when making the charity comparison, I don't have to receive any physical trinkets but I do like to see the results of my donations. Hope that's more clear.

[KajunKrazy]

You can choose to look at it however you like.
Even if their results dipped, you'd continue to give because you believe in the cause.
If you continue to shell out thousands with expectation of a good product on the field/court, facilities, etc, and no return, you're just not a good steward of your money. I bet you weren't giving much, if anything, during the toothpick years. No one was. Why? Because the product and subsequent result was abysmal. That would never happen with St. Jude.

There was no foundation during tooth pick years. I did have my 4 season tickets and my tailgating spot knowing that he was temporary.

[ULvictory]

OK. Agree with every thing you are saying here. Better things for the student athletes. But my comments were made because people were complaining about the tangible things they did not receive as RCAF members. Those are the things that aren't important to me. Facilities, coaches, support staff, nutrition, supplements, things that make the athletes better is what I care about. Not me getting gifts for my donation. That was my point.

The reason I equated it to a charity for example is just this morning I wrote my annual 132 dollar check to Tunnel to Towers. 11 dollars per month as they ask for. I don't receive anything physically for that, but I can see the smart houses they are building for our disabled vets. Just like I don't need anything physical for my RCAF donation but I like to see winners and new facilities and so on.... That was my only point when making the charity comparison, I don't have to receive any physical trinkets but I do like to see the results of my donations. Hope that's more clear.

This is pretty much how I would've answered your previous question to me. We want to see results based on what we give. Like MAT said (and it was a good point), the Cause vs. Result distinction is what matters here.

[cajun_lannister]

There was no foundation during tooth pick years. I did have my 4 season tickets and my tailgating spot knowing that he was temporary.

I don't need a return per se but expect good utilization of my donations. I was giving a few grand from the last few years. When they brought back Marlin I dropped my contributions to $250. Now after the cluster that is game day at Cajun field, it might be zero.

[zeppelincajun]

I don't need a return per se but expect good utilization of my donations. I was giving a few grand from the last few years. When they brought back Marlin I dropped my contributions to $250. Now after the cluster that is game day at Cajun field, it might be zero.

Did anyone with RCAF or the athletic department contact you when your contributions went down significantly?

[KajunKrazy]

I don't need a return per se but expect good utilization of my donations. I was giving a few grand from the last few years. When they brought back Marlin I dropped my contributions to $250. Now after the cluster that is game day at Cajun field, it might be zero.

If renew day would have been on Homecoming when they shut down the major entrance to CF for a freaking parade and I sat in traffic for 2 hrs trying to get into the gates I would have dropped then too.

[cajun_lannister]

Did anyone with RCAF or the athletic department contact you when your contributions went down significantly?

LOL!!

I had show up at CD to drop off my parking pass payment because no one could answer me over the phone.

[zeppelincajun]

LOL!!

I can't think of another business contingent on a small clientele base who wouldn't bother to contact one of their few clients when that person cuts their spending back to an 1/8th of what it used to be.

Several people close to me and numerous folks on here have mentioned dropping or slashing donations. I ask the same question every time (did anyone from UL ask you why), and I always get the same answer. Lannister has the correct idea that my question is probably laughable to even ask at this point. At least I'm not too scared to still ask it.

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[VObserver]

One can get a ticket for 10 bucks today. You saying it was a third of that.

I have been in the same tailgating spot since the 90s and it has never been free. Like bread eggs and milk it has gone up. But tailgate spots inside of Cajun field gates have always had a price on them since the end of stokley days.

Please explain how expansion of ambassador Caffery, Youngsville, Carencro, and Broussard hinder attendance?

Not totally true. Those spots from the maintenance building to the stadium were pay spots; everything else was free until well into the Bustle era. We had to beg the administration to charge us for our spot under the big oak tree near the College fenceline about 50 yards north of Rhinehart.

[cajun_lannister]

I can't think of another business contingent on a small clientele base who wouldn't bother to contact one of their few clients when that person cuts their spending back to an 1/8th of what it used to be.

Several people close to me and numerous folks on here have mentioned dropping or slashing donations. I ask the same question every time (did anyone from UL ask you why), and I always get the same answer. Lannister has the correct idea that my question is probably laughable to even ask at this point. At least I'm not too scared to still ask it.

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I did get a call about basketball season tickets that I didn't renew lol.

But RCAF should have automated messages sent out to people who have large percentage drops. With an option for a good call-back time if wanted.

[zeppelincajun]

I did get a call about basketball season tickets that I didn't renew lol.

But RCAF should have automated messages sent out to people who have large percentage drops. With an option for a good call-back time if wanted.

For basketball I got my usual call for renewal. I decided to wait until the last minute. Went online to buy, and it showed the whole Dome unavailable. I should've taken that as a sign, but I drove my dumbass to the Dome and bought one. I like the acoustics in empty arenas.