Louisiana Athletics Announces Record-Setting Fundraising in 2020-21

[JayWalker]

Tripled my annual fund gift.
Doubled my football season tickets.
Joining the QB Club, Rebounders Club and Continuing Diamond Club.
Joined the Back Reaux Club

[moorecajun]

Tripled my annual fund gift.
Doubled my football season tickets.
Joining the QB Club, Rebounders Club and Continuing Diamond Club.
Joined the Back Reaux Club

Well guys, it looks like the bar has been set pretty high!

Nice job Jay!

[Duggie35]

I'm fairly confident that most of the regular posters here are doing everything their income will allow them to do. We need more of those folks in the community and alumni in general to get onboard.

[CajunRebel]

As great as this is, I just have to ask the question…

With the new NIL rules should business-owning donors even be giving to the RCAF at this point? It almost seems like we’d get a better ROI as a program if Thibodeaux’s Oilfield Rental Co. “hired” the entire football team to advertise their drilling tools.

[MelRock]

As great as this is, I just have to ask the question…

With the new NIL rules should business-owning donors even be giving to the RCAF at this point? It almost seems like we’d get a better ROI as a program if Thibodeaux’s Oilfield Rental Co. “hired” the entire football team to advertise their drilling tools.

How do you propose we pay the coaches' salary, travel, cost of attendance, stadium upgrades, athletic training table, health supplements, athletic trainers, athletic scholarships, and all the other things that go into running the athletic department?

[CajunRebel]

How do you propose we pay the coaches' salary, travel, cost of attendance, stadium upgrades, athletic training table, health supplements, athletic trainers, athletic scholarships, and all the other things that go into running the athletic department?

I’m not saying all of that isn’t necessary. I’m just throwing it out there that Mr. 4 star athlete may not care about the nutrition or facilities as much as he’d care about the NIL money.

[CajunVic]

As great as this is, I just have to ask the question…

With the new NIL rules should business-owning donors even be giving to the RCAF at this point? It almost seems like we’d get a better ROI as a program if Thibodeaux’s Oilfield Rental Co. “hired” the entire football team to advertise their drilling tools.

While this may be nice for the few players who could command this, it does absolutely nothing to help the university fund it’s costs of operations.

[Cajunrunner]

I’m not saying all of that isn’t necessary. I’m just throwing it out there that Mr. 4 star athlete may not care about the nutrition or facilities as much as he’d care about the NIL money.

I've wondered about this as well. Guess we'll find out over the next couple years of this process how it'll all work out.

Though let's not kid ourselves, the top recruits at the big money P5 programs were already getting paid (or their families), and there was still plenty of money for donors to give as well. How G5 programs like us now have to plan and figure out the best use of our limited available resources will be the puzzle.

[MelRock]

I’m not saying all of that isn’t necessary. I’m just throwing it out there that Mr. 4 star athlete may not care about the nutrition or facilities as much as he’d care about the NIL money.

We lose money every year. Do you think some recruit wants to come to some ____ty facilities or has to eat at McDonald's? Seventy-five million to upgrade the football stadium, how does that get funded?

We have built our programs by building them up through donations. If you think that will continue without donations to the programs, then please give me what you are smoking.

[LouisianaB]

How do you propose we pay the coaches' salary, travel, cost of attendance, stadium upgrades, athletic training table, health supplements, athletic trainers, athletic scholarships, and all the other things that go into running the athletic department?

You forgot radio broadcasters!