About those goal posts... [donation link]

[dobre_shunka]

Go ahead and post a photo of the check you send in.

A check? Are you serious?

How about this:

 

[VFL-82-JP]

Someone who can see, please tell us what the total donation is at now.

Paradoxically, having contributed, it is now HARDER for me to see that page than it was before; now it wants me to log in before i can go there, which I'm too lazy to do, when before I was there with one click. Heh.

Go Vols!

 

[Volfan76]

Some big spenders in here.

 

[GAVol]

A check? Are you serious?

How about this:
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Gotta be honest… I donated just so I could make it in honor of an Alabama fan I know. He’s going to get a framed copy of the confirmation.

 

[AthensVol2007]

This all day. This is the kind of creativity we need. Cut them up into 1-foot sections with something like “South End Zone Goalpost. October 15, 2022. TN 52 AL 49” welded or cut into each laterally. Ends sealed with the Power T cut into them. I’d surely bid for one. But I’m one person…

Agreed! I’d give way more for a piece of “history” than I would simply for covering the cost of replacement.

 

[dobre_shunka]

Someone who can see, please tell us what the total donation is at now.

Paradoxically, having contributed, it is now HARDER for me to see that page than it was before; now it wants me to log in before i can go there, which I'm too lazy to do, when before I was there with one click. Heh.

Go Vols!

Help pay the tab for our new goalposts!

$75,329 Raised

50% Funded

1911 Donors

14 days Remaining

 

[dobre_shunka]

Some big spenders in here.

Big whiners too

 

[GiveHim6InSC]

I’d be more concerned if a bunch of tree huggers formed a human chain around Calhoun’s in protest of the goalposts being thrown into the river.
All I can say is that they had better be gone before I get up there, because there’s a rack of ribs with my name on it

 

[bigorangepoppa]

I think it was a joke, however, I'm sure the University will take any and all donations.

 

[Aerie Vol]

I popped for the $52.49 just to be a part of what was one of the greatest Vol experiences ever.

 

[GAVol]

I think it was a joke, however, I'm sure the University will take any and all donations.

I think it started as a joke . . . and then somebody in Development realized it could be an angle lol. My hat's off to them.

 

[rbeattie32]

Me and my boys on the field having a great time I gave the 52.49 donation it not an insult, it’s not begging, it’s a unique fun way for the fans to continue the celebration
GO VOLS

 

[warrior]

I could have sworn Danny White tweeted an image of the new ones, now I think he deleted the tweet and now they are asking fans for money to replace them? WTF??



Not a good look IMO.

Oh piss off. What would not be a good look is if we can't raise enough money. I put $16 on it. Well worth it. If 100,000 people do that it will be 1.6 million. That game and celebration was well worth the $16. Cough it up people!

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

Oh piss off. What would not be a good look is if we can't raise enough money. I put $16 on it. Well worth it. If 100,000 people do that it will be 1.6 million. That game and celebration was well worth the $16. Cough it up people!

I guess I just don't like rich people begging for money from common people.

 

[warrior]

I guess I just don't like rich people begging for money from common people.

Did you have a Saturday you will remember for the rest of your life thanks to those "rich people"?
I did. Happy to contribute. In fact I feel honored to contribute.

 

[Volunteer08]

$92k+ now. 61% funded 2,442 donors.

 

[chattaboogie]

It would be remarkable if the kick would have been bad if it hadn't been touched by Bama.

Honestly it looks like it clearly changes course to the right after the tip and it still crossed pretty close to the left goalpost. Feasible that it would’ve been a hook left. We were just meant to win that game.

 

[Volunteer08]

For those freaking out over this, I think you should relax. DW is just having some fun with it. If you look at DW's twitter we got 3mil in anonymous donations to the AD over the last couple of weeks. Nobody needs to go looking in couch cushions for the actual $20k it probably costs to replace the goal posts.

 

[CAVPUT]

$92k+ now. 61% funded 2,442 donors.

Haha....what a great fan base. 48 hours and they've already pretty much covered the fine. By the time this is done, we'll have enough for another replacement set after we win the SEC east....too soon?

 

[warrior]

$148,000 now

 

[Stephen Gray]

Boom. I just donated too.

 

[CAVPUT]

This fan base never ceases to amaze. Despite the pain of the last 15-20 years, it still remains loyal to a fault. Rabid in their support and generous in their offerings. Well done Vol Nation. In a word....pride.

 

[clarencepeabody]

I wouldn’t mind contributing if they etched my name on the goalpost

 

[dobre_shunka]

I guess I just don't like rich people begging for money from common people.

Danny White or the athletic department isn't keeping the money.

It's a VolStarter campaign, the money goes to the university to fund various projects throughout campus.

VolStarter

"Projects such as funding for an upgraded transmitter tower for WUTK (goal: $10,300; raised: $14,595 from 125 supporters); materials and programming for the OUTreach Center (goal: $500; raised: $605 from 10 donors); and funding for the IEEE Robotics Team, which raised $2,486 from 10 donors (166 percent of its goal) were examples of early crowdfunding success through the program."

 

[Rickyvol77]

I guess I just don't like rich people begging for money from common people.

Jealously is such an ugly look