Response to Hurricane Club Fundraising Email

[Kirijax]

One bad defensive coordinator is not going to change my love for the Hurricanes or make me stop supporting them by not contributing to the Hurricane Club.

 

[Hobokane]

Perhaps a better approach is to tell the AD what you think and then offer a reason to do as you ask-offer to double your contribution for a period of time. For example if you are a high roller offer to double your $1M each year to $2M for ten years. That would get his attention. If you are a regular guy offer $200 per year. Or you could offer to buy 4 season tickets to take the kids......................But, I have found that the "I am out" position seldom works...............

I wonder how many "whales" there actually are that purchase and give on that basis.... and then I have to think, if we're ****ed, they must be royally ****ed. I don't disagree with your sentiment, the tail rarely wags the dog. But take that math, and multiply that $200 by 10,000 potential/former donors. That adds up.

Moreover-- there is the cumulative affect of 10,000 negative replies, regardless of what dollar level they contribute. Disgruntled patrons always speak louder than those who are "happy." Like a bad experience at a restaurant. I firmly believe that 1,000 or 10,000 negative, scathing replies would not go unnoticed. Whether they choose to do anything to address it remains to be seen. But to sit by idly, and "hope" for change rather than "affect" change, certainly won't work either.

Just my .02

 

[whoopingcane]

Huh, I just dug up this email I wrote back in early 2006.

I just received the e-mail below. In order to build champions, there must be high standards in place from the athletic director to the training staff. There is simply no justification for the fact that Larry Coker is still the head coach. His team was unprepared, unmotivated and beaten down by LSU in the Peach Bowl after blowing a BCS bid with an inexcusable loss to GT (please review this article with statistical evidence available at http://www.coker_teh_suck_graph.com). The offensive scheme is broken and utilizing the same Coker-T and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. The only reason he still has a job is because the president has chosen her friendship with Bill Clinton over the best interests of the football program. More simply, but for her political aspirations, Larry Coker would not be employed. Please intervene.

If you believe that Larry Coker is a competent division one head coach, I invite you to enlighten me with the facts that support that conclusion. Until Larry Coker is removed, I will not be contributing to the Hurricane Club.

 

[arizonacane]

Donna has a billion dollar endowment, use some of it on athletics.

 

[BigCaneAl]

AMericans vote with their dollars. That's the beauty of it.

A while back Dapper posted the annual football revenue numbers for the past decade. The decline in revenue after coker's debacle against LSU in the bowl game was notable. Seeing 55,000 people in the pouring rain against Va Tech then seeing only 25,000 a week later for senior day against UVa was a very telling sign for me. If UM management doesnt step in soon, my fear is that we are one bad performance next year away from a total fan meltdown. And Im not talking a message board meltdown, Im talking about the type of meltdown that affects the AD's coffers.

While that's all well and good, the true impact of the slide in revenue after Coker's debacle against LSU was that we had such a paltry amount to offer a prospective coach that we were forced to go with Randy Shannon for under 1 mil/yr.

Voting with one's dollar has undeniable effects, indeed.

I have never seen a poster be so wildly wrong on so many issues. One has to think that u are really just a Heel in heel country.

Repeat after me: Larry Coker was one of the highest paid coaches in football at the time of his firing. Please stop spreading false assumptions that the University is some little sister of the poor.

The issue was not revenue, it was the fact that we had to pay Coker's high salary for several more years. It's the exact reason we won't fire Golden any time soon.

 

[Ibis Wingz]

AMericans vote with their dollars. That's the beauty of it.

A while back Dapper posted the annual football revenue numbers for the past decade. The decline in revenue after coker's debacle against LSU in the bowl game was notable. Seeing 55,000 people in the pouring rain against Va Tech then seeing only 25,000 a week later for senior day against UVa was a very telling sign for me. If UM management doesnt step in soon, my fear is that we are one bad performance next year away from a total fan meltdown. And Im not talking a message board meltdown, Im talking about the type of meltdown that affects the AD's coffers.

While that's all well and good, the true impact of the slide in revenue after Coker's debacle against LSU was that we had such a paltry amount to offer a prospective coach that we were forced to go with Randy Shannon for under 1 mil/yr.

Voting with one's dollar has undeniable effects, indeed.

I have never seen a poster be so wildly wrong on so many issues. One has to think that u are really just a Heel in heel country.

Repeat after me: Larry Coker was one of the highest paid coaches in football at the time of his firing. Please stop spreading false assumptions that the University is some little sister of the poor.

The issue was not revenue, it was the fact that we had to pay Coker's high salary for several more years. It's the exact reason we won't fire Golden any time soon.

If UM loses more revenue by keeping Al and his son than the expense of firing Al, then UM will fire Al. I would love to see that analysis.

 

[CANE4LIFE]

LOL, yeah, give even LESS to UM AD. That will show them.

The UM AD revenue is 3rd to last in the ACC as it is. Im sure if we make it dead last, it will really encourage them to spend big money on a top notch coach. Lulz..

 

[dookie blaylock]

Donna has a billion dollar endowment, use some of it on athletics.

yeah, about that. first, the endowment is just under $780 million. second, that's illegal unless it's a specifically earmarked donation to athletics, which is generally not considered when calculating a university's total endowment. you can lose federal and state funding if you use general university funds towards athletics.

 

[The Franchise]

If a place of business doesn't respect its customers enough to provide a quality product, then that place of business doesn't deserve your money.

No doubt. And if enough customers stop buying from that business, it'll sink.

Just don't complain if UM football goes out of business...or, in this instance, continues a streak of mediocrity.

MOAR FEAR.

Lulz at the idea that it takes lots of money to get a good coach. Miami could hire Narduzzi for 1.5 to 2 million. Miami could hire Clemson's OC for around 2 million as well. But please keep perpetuating the lie that a lack of donations equals a lack of quality coaching.

We could get Butch Davis for even less than that.

 

[Cane Dynasty]

Wow. Does the athletic department think we are stupid. My response...Mr. James:

I just received the e-mail below. In order to build champions, there must be high standards in place from the athletic director to the training staff. There is simply no justification for the fact that Mark D’Onofrio is still on the coaching staff. He has fielded the worst defenses in the acc (please review this article with statistical evidence available at http://www.pageqsports.com/2013/11/miami-hurricanes-football-at-a-crossroads). The defensive scheme is broken and utilizing the same scheme and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. The only reason he still has a job is because his best friend Al Golden has chosen their friendship over the best interests of the football program. More simply, but for the friendship, Mark D’Onofrio would not be employed. Please intervene.

If you believe that Mark D’Onofrio is a competent division one defensive coordinator, I invite you to enlighten me with the facts that support that conclusion. Until Mark D’Onofrio is removed, I will not be contributing to the Hurricane Club.

I love you. Pure homo.

 

[OzarCaneSaw]

Donna has a billion dollar endowment, use some of it on athletics.

yeah, about that. first, the endowment is just under $780 million. second, that's illegal unless it's a specifically earmarked donation to athletics, which is generally not considered when calculating a university's total endowment. you can lose federal and state funding if you use general university funds towards athletics.

How so?

 

[OzarCaneSaw]

Instead of contributing $$ that could be used to hire a competent DC, you've chosen to withhold your money, thereby ensuring we're stuck with Coach D. Awesome.

You keep going with that tired meme. Jeez. How much is Doh'rito getting paid now? How much more per year would we have to pony up? You saying the university is in that dire straights where 200-300k extra per year is gonna break them? Lulz. You gotta be kidding me.

 

[weownfsu]

They sent it to miami.edu address. I wrote back telling them that I won't be giving a dollar to the school until Golden is gone.

 

[weownfsu]

Donna has a billion dollar endowment, use some of it on athletics.

UM does not have a billion dollar endowment. You have 1,857 posts on this site and not one of them is accurate.

 

[Dash]

There is no law that tells a private school how it is to spend it's money.

It is highly unethical to spend money donated towards something specific on something else.

If Miami was ever in a true financial bind, it could borrow money from any number of projects to pay for what it needs, and then repay whatever project was borrowed from with future earnings from the borrowing project. If Miami lets say fired Golden, but really wanted to replace him with an elite 3-4 million dollar guy, plus had the massive buyout to pay for. They could borrow the money from any liquid assets that were part of any university general donations, and then use football only fundraisers to pay it back over time.

I highly doubt this administration has any interest in doing such a thing however.

 

[jw410]

Don't listen to porsters like cane almighty

I stop buying wizards season tix 3 yrs ago until they put a competitive product on the court.
I'm not going to any games next year. I went to 8 games the last 3 years..4 home 4 away

 

[Dan E. Dangerously]

Don't listen to porsters like cane almighty

I stop buying wizards season tix 3 yrs ago until they put a competitive product on the court.
I'm not going to any games next year. I went to 8 games the last 3 years..4 home 4 away

I bet if you re-upped they would've had the money they needed to be good again.

 

[Ibis4life]

Wow! We have such classy fans.

 

[Kirijax]

Everybody has their breaking point. There comes a time when you've had enough and you just don't want to even follow the team anymore . It's just that some people's breaking points come a lot sooner and are a lot more fragile than others. It would be hard for me to say that I've reached that point after a season of 9 wins, beating the Gators, getting out of the NCAA crap, and playing in our first bowl game in three years. I agree that there a lot of things that need fixing on the teams, not just the football team. I'm not sure at what point I would finally say that I will stop supporting the team. I've never said that and I see no reason to start saying that now. I'll be donating to the Hurricane Club again and rooting as always. Maybe a lot of you should go jump over to the Noles bandwagon like that guy on the video. You seem miserable rooting for the Canes so you might have a much happier life.

 

[Dash]

Everybody has their breaking point. There comes a time when you've had enough and you just don't want to even follow the team anymore . It's just that some people's breaking points come a lot sooner and are a lot more fragile than others. It would be hard for me to say that I've reached that point after a season of 9 wins, beating the Gators, getting out of the NCAA crap, and playing in our first bowl game in three years. I agree that there a lot of things that need fixing on the teams, not just the football team. I'm not sure at what point I would finally say that I will stop supporting the team. I've never said that and I see no reason to start saying that now. I'll be donating to the Hurricane Club again and rooting as always. Maybe a lot of you should go jump over to the Noles bandwagon like that guy on the video. You seem miserable rooting for the Canes so you might have a much happier life.

I'll never understand the childish comments such as "well just don't be a Cane fan, be a Noles fan". There is nothing wrong with fans demanding excellence from a sport. It's sports, the point is to win, and fans want their team to win or they won't support it. Give me something to be proud of and I am glad to support. Put something out there that is a consistent failure and then make no changes? Thats a slap in the face IMO.