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Topic: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Topic: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

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Bobcat Love
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Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:02:12 PM

What an unbelievable Public Relations gaffe this morning. Why would ANYONE be authorized to say we are in the process of fundraising to give Groce a raise to keep him at Ohio?

1. You think Groce wants to stay somewhere where they're scraping and cobbling every penny, nickle, and dime together just to get him paid every 2 weeks?

2. Can you make Ohio look any more minor league during a story that has us on the National Landscape?

Someone compared the fundraising efforts to a "garage sale" on twitter, and I see that as an apt comparison.

Maybe we're fundraising on the backchannels. Maybe we're not. Either way, those matters are private to everyone but the donors themselves. If they choose to announce their intentions, fine - but the University shouldn't be leaking something like this.

Last Edited: 3/28/2012 12:10:08 PM by Bobcat Love

Tyler
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:05:19 PM

I agree. I tweeted that it sounded like we are digging around in couch cushions for change to pay him.

FearLeon
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:06:35 PM

Fellas...don't forget to check the cup holders in your cars as well. Good grief.

#BleedGreen #TrentIsGOAT

Tyler
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:08:00 PM

Should I go to Coinstar or just use some good, old-fashion coin wrappers?

Bobcat Love
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:09:35 PM

Let me add:

I'm not saying we won't keep him, but if I were Groce, it would just leave a bad taste in my mouth that the collection plate had to make an extra pass just for me. Anyone with a conscious would feel the exact same.

Also, I still think we dodge the Illinois bullet and have to deal with something else in the next few weeks/months where we lose him.

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Posted: 3/28/2012 12:09:53 PM

Youngstown Bobcat wrote:

Should I go to Coinstar or just use some good, old-fashion coin wrappers?

Coinstar...it's quicker and the one at my local Kroger never fails me in a crisis situation like this.

#BleedGreen #TrentIsGOAT

OUBobcat13
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:10:10 PM

Not to mention, shouldn't we have been quietly fundraising for this day from the beginning. Or at least since we beat Georgetown. We hired a young, successful, enthusiastic coach. Did we really think that he would stick around all that long? Why not start placing your pennies in the penny jar for this day? And if the day doesn't come...oh well, you now have a few extra million in the rainy day fund.

Bobcat Love
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:10:38 PM

We like the kind that folds, not the kind that jingles....(shakes head)

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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:11:55 PM

Can we get a picture of Athens elementary school kids putting pennies in a "Keep Coach Groce" jar on the front page of the Messenger?

Bobcat Love
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:13:00 PM

My original thought (in one of my posts) was that Jim and Rod were ready for this day to come.

I'm more than a little worried I was wrong there.

If they weren't ready for Groce to become a hot commodity, we had a major shortfall in leadership on this issue.

The minute we beat Akron to go to Tourney #2 in 3 years, we should have braced ourselves for a storm.

I still think (and take it on faith) Jim and Rod were ready and this fundraising thing is just smoke and mirrors.

Andrew Ruck
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:13:11 PM

Love - Please keep it in the 20 page thread, of which you should be proud to be the author of. How can we catch up to Illinois' 500 pages if you're going off on rabbit trails in other threads?

Andrew Ruck
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:14:15 PM

FearLeon wrote:

Youngstown Bobcat wrote:

Should I go to Coinstar or just use some good, old-fashion coin wrappers?

Coinstar...it's quicker and the one at my local Kroger never fails me in a crisis situation like this.

Wrappers. Coinstar takes a percentage and we need all we can get.

Who wants to hold a bake sale or a car wash?

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:16:02 PM

Bobcat Love wrote:

I am hoping that it was just a poor choice of words from our spokesperson. But why we have a spokesperson talking about this right now is a head scratcher.

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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:17:33 PM

Where was this leaked?

Bobcat Love
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Posted: 3/28/2012 12:21:32 PM

Andrew Ruck wrote:

Love - Please keep it in the 20 page thread, of which you should be proud to be the author of. How can we catch up to Illinois' 500 pages if you're going off on rabbit trails in other threads?

I've gone rogue. I hit my tag team partner over the head with a chair and let him get pinned to lose the belts. I'm entrenched in the leak thread now.

Bobcat Love
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:22:44 PM

Leak was here:

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2012-03...

LOVE

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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:24:45 PM

Perhaps this is a ruse to find out who the leaks are in our athletic department...oh sorry, too much time spent on the Illini boards. Perhaps their donors would kick in some action, though. I still get tax deductions courtesy of Smithfield, RI.

bn9
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:29:03 PM

M-I-C-K-E-Y

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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:30:00 PM

bn9 wrote:

Can we get a picture of Athens elementary school kids putting pennies in a "Keep Coach Groce" jar on the front page of the Messenger?

Ha! Either that or a lemonade stand. Or the kids going door to door selling candy bars. Four bucks for a Kit Kat, are you kidding me?????

Last Edited: 3/28/2012 12:30:43 PM by GoCats105

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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:31:17 PM

Poorly worded, but brutally honest. When high majors come calling, mid-majors need to go find money (e.g., from donors). My guess is we had the $500,000 - $600,000 figured out (e.g., to combat a Nebraska), did not have the $800,000 - $1 million to combat an Illinois.

Last Edited: 3/28/2012 12:33:37 PM by cc-cat

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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:31:41 PM

I'm sure Groce was aware of the financial situation. The reason he made ~300k before is because 300k is what we could afford. It's the reason Solich makes what he makes and no more.

bn9
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:32:22 PM

It is one thing to be small time, it is a completely different thing to advertise it.

Mark Lembright '85
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:33:08 PM

OUBobcat13 wrote:

Maybe they have and the coffers came up empty. I don't know and it's just my theory-maybe McDavis and Schaus have been quietly trying to raise more funds or looking for ways to raise $ and they have just come up with nothing? At the same time they've had to raise $ to finish the IPF and that seems to be going nowhere. Maybe the money's just not there; hopefully it is and we just don't know about it yet!!

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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:33:59 PM

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

I'm sure Groce was aware of the financial situation. The reason he made ~300k before is because 300k is what we could afford. It's the reason Solich makes what he makes and no more.

Winner winner chicken dinner.

Let's have a yard sale.

bobcat28
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RE: Whoever leaked the fundraising news is an idiot....

Posted: 3/28/2012 12:35:46 PM

We just need to sell 3000 black jerseys!

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