MoCo_Vol
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Hey I like you as a poster so please dont take personally what I’m about to say.
That’s some commie bs. Nobody can tell me how I SHOULD donate my money and expect me to agree with it unless I hold the exact same values as them, just like nobody can tell me what my values should be and expect me to agree with them. If I want to donate to football NIL directly, I would like to have that option. I would likely donate more than I do currently. It’s a gamble at best for them not to provide the option, and a direct fundraising failure at worst. Because someone who doesn’t care about anything but the Lady Vols for example, may very well opt not to contribute at all if they know it’s being spread widely across sports they don’t care about, as then the impact they are making is not in line with the reason they do it and not worth parting with the money as opposed to just going to more lady Vols basketball games and buying more lady Vols shirts, even if that practice doesn’t benefit the players as much as direct NIL support.
Donating money is allowed to be selfish, and makes even more sense when it’s not for a humanitarian cause, which of course sports is not. It’s entertainment.
At the end of the day the end of the product line lies with the consumer and is what makes the venture profitable to the extent it should be. So why not just let them contribute to what they want to?
Those who value equal opportunity and incentivizing the commitment of college athletes broadly will still contribute to the overall fund. I don’t doubt money is being left on the table though. If we have 5000 vol club donors and could get an extra $5 monthly from them specifically for football, that’s $300k which just bought you a quality defender or rotational offensive player annually.
And for those who have said the marginal impact of the volclub via common folk donations doesn’t make that big a difference, then who cares if they put it all towards football. I disagree about it being marginal though, to the extent you can effectively raise the funds.
Lol no worries, I get it.
Thing is if you break up the NIL collective to separate by sport and by gender it creates more workload on said collective, which will then require more administrative support...so if fans are already concerned over 10% or whatever the number is that's not going directly to the athletes that's the reason I say collectives should just focus on taking in donations to a central bucket if ya will. The university/coaches then would be able to help guide resources to sports/players as needed.
You should donate your money however you want I agree.
Mostly I just think adding more workload to the Volclub to essentially keep up with separating donations will only cause problems. The Lady Vols already have a separated NIL deal going with it's own shop location as well.