This is getting better by the post. So now your "point" has gone from "GSU has not secured funds for practice fields" to "that article came out two days after I made my post" to finally "ODU's process was well planned in advance, that's all I'm saying." Three more posts and you'd be doing a complete 180.Tribe4SF wrote:Of course it was a process as well. My point is simply that the process was well planned in advance, and they didn't proceed with their plan until their goals were achieved. GSU, by the way, has been raising money a bit longer than a year and two months. They had over a million dollars pledged by April of 2008. ODU had their eight million in the summer of 2006, more than three years before they played their first game. That's why their facilities were complete when they took the field.Common Sense wrote: The prime determinant of GSU's move to FBS is not fundraising -- it's getting 20K+ people in the stands on consistent basis. Period.
But while on the subject of fundraising, ODU started its process before 2006 and completed everything by 2009, which gave them at least 4 solid years of fundraising. Was that not a process as well? If you are going to spout garbage (like you have been on CAA Zone for years now) about comparisons between ODU and GSU, then why not take into account that GSU's fundraising efforts have been in progress for only a year and two months, which effectively means we have another 3 years to match ODU, and do so, mind you, in the worst economic downturn since the great depression.
You know, for someone who claims to have a degree from William and Mary, I must say I'm rather disappointed.
Consistently drawing good crowds will certainly be important to an FBS move for GSU, but if you think fundraising will not also be a prime determinant you're kidding yourself. The comparisons, AGAIN, are to point out that ODU is no where near ready to consider an FBS move, and they've been drawing 20,000 for every game.
GSU has been raising money for the actual practice facility for only a little over a year. The cool million you are referring to was raised for other areas of the program, and that was in addition to the $6 million+ that was raised to purchase the actual land for the practice facility. ODU had the luxury of getting the land for free, as well as the luxury to plan much further in advance because they were not dealing with an exiting president like we have, which is the reason everything was rushed. But when you compare the starting time lines, GSU has done just as good, if not better of a job raising funds, especially considering the current economic environment. If you'd spent as much time reading news articles as you spend reading speculative posts on message boards, maybe this would all be clear to you, and that brings me to my next point.
Tribe, for four years now you have been making boneheaded posts on CAA Zone based on limited to flat-out false information, not just about GSU, but a plethora of other CAA programs on a variety of subjects. You do this constantly, and when someone calls you out on it, you immediately go with your patented "why can't we have a civil conversation" spiel. How about this champ: why don't you, for a change, do a little research before making another claim or argument about GSU and that way you won't have to eat crow, and most importantly, you will spare us all of your backpedaling posts full of euphemism and weaslers.
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