NDSU Teammakers

[80ALUM]

I wish Teammakers would allocate priority pts. for being an alumni.

[1998braves64]

My employer's matching donation showed up today, nice!

So this counts towards priority points as your donation? I guess I never thought about it... never have thought to ask my employer to match...

[td577]

I wish Teammakers would allocate priority pts. for being an alumni.

The sheepskin should be worth some points. Between undergraduate and graduate school, I am somewhere in the $50k range given to the school. Others are even higher.

I wonder what percentage of teammakers are not alumni.


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[HerdBot]

Nice bit in Bison Illustrated about teammakers. 95% of donations go right to the source. Only 5% administrative fees. Paid 175k for practice turf, first time venturing into stuff like that

[tony]

The sheepskin should be worth some points. Between undergraduate and graduate school, I am somewhere in the $50k range given to the school. Others are even higher.

I wonder what percentage of teammakers are not alumni.

I figure that I already got good value for paying my tuition to NDSU. It's what enables us to earn enough to donate now.

Now, the money that students pay in activity fees to NDSU that goes directly to athletics? I could see counting that toward TM points, less the value of tickets that were made available, of course.

[56BISON73]

The sheepskin should be worth some points. Between undergraduate and graduate school, I am somewhere in the $50k range given to the school. Others are even higher.

I wonder what percentage of teammakers are not alumni.


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How much of that 50 actually went to athletics? As far as alumni is concerned how do you categorize alumni? Of course graduating gets you in. How about attending NDSU but didnt graduate?

[td577]

How much of that 50 actually went to athletics? As far as alumni is concerned how do you categorize alumni? Of course graduating gets you in. How about attending NDSU but didnt graduate?

First of all, I do think it is unfair to separate academics and athletics at this level. They feed off each other. Like you, I am sure, I am just as concerned about the state of the education as I am about the football team. So as a student, my tuition and fees were mostly to support the education side and help provide an educational experience attractive enough to recruit quality student/athletes. Now most of donations, like teammakers and scholarship fund, go towards athletics because I feel a successful athletic program fees academics through increased national exposure.

As car as those who attended and didn't graduate, or those who never went to Ndsu and are boosters, it is awesome they are part of the support system. That being said, I also feel the university and athletic programs insure greater long term success by going out of their way to capture the vested interest and loyalty of those with the sheepskin. If giving a few points to NDSU graduates encourages more to participate, it will continue to grow the Bison community even stronger.

There is no exclusion, just rewarding an education commitment to Ndsu on a different level.


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[CAS4127]

First of all, I do think it is unfair to separate academics and athletics at this level. They feed off each other. Like you, I am sure, I am just as concerned about the state of the education as I am about the football team. So as a student, my tuition and fees were mostly to support the education side and help provide an educational experience attractive enough to recruit quality student/athletes. Now most of donations, like teammakers and scholarship fund, go towards athletics because I feel a successful athletic program fees academics through increased national exposure.

As car as those who attended and didn't graduate, or those who never went to Ndsu and are boosters, it is awesome they are part of the support system. That being said, I also feel the university and athletic programs insure greater long term success by going out of their way to capture the vested interest and loyalty of those with the sheepskin. If giving a few points to NDSU graduates encourages more to participate, it will continue to grow the Bison community even stronger.

There is no exclusion, just rewarding an education commitment to Ndsu on a different level.


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I'm in, as I am sure most former NDSU athletes would be(as vast majority graduate)-->get points for being on varsity team AND for being a graduated Alum!!!

Where do I sign the petition?!?!?

[tony]

Dunno. Sounds like entitlements to me.

[CAS4127]

Dunno. Sounds like entitlements to me.

I see what u did there!!


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