RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑2 months ago
Blue Man wrote: ↑2 months ago
Rhody15 wrote: ↑2 months ago
Update with an email from Stone, don’t know if this is auto generated and sent to everyone and whatnot.
Seems like they are aware of the login problem.
I got it too.
They - and when I say "they" I mean Stone specifically, on behalf of our big donors - are paying a lot of attention to this. Everything about this.
The new collective that they have launched with Stone, is a complete new build. The website. The marketing. The focus. All of it.
There will be growing pains, but they will be alleviated in a commiserate fashion with the amount of focus the fanbase invests. And I mean that both in terms of number of donors and the amount of donations. The more people and dollars at stake, the more benefits that will come to the members.
Just the fact that we're having this conversation and the other members of the board are reading it and hopefully signing up, is a good thing for our program moving forward.
This is all great, but it really makes you wonder what we were doing before this. And since it seems the answer is not a whole hell of a lot it makes you wonder how much we wasted for that
My gut reaction is "who cares" - it certainly wasn't being run well (for the 1 year it was in operation) so they immediately made a change.
I'm more encouraged than discouraged. The old version of the collective went off the Jerry D, but this time we fired Jerry D after 1 season instead of two.
"We" didn't "waste" anything, because as far as I know there weren't a huge amount of donors besides myself contributing to NIL. (It wasn't hard to take attendance at the events) Thankfully for us; Tom, David, Mike, and the rest of our big guns care enough to a) contribute 99% of the NIL funding, and b) wanted to invest even more to help build the collective into a self-sustaining entity instead of those guys just giving all the money every year.
They're certainly still giving, but they can't do it by themselves. If everyone else is chipping in the quality of our program will go up exponentially.
Instead of doing the thing where we complain about everything that's gone wrong, let's celebrate the fact that we're doing something right and jump on board. We all win.