KeaneyBluBallz wrote: ↑3 days ago
Blue Man wrote: ↑3 days ago
KeaneyBluBallz wrote: ↑3 days ago
so where do i turn in my keaney blue apparel? is there a collection bin outside the RC?
need to make sure it gets to the 'real' fans. not us fakes.
No one said turn in your apparel. The basic theme is shut the fuck up complaining if you’re not willing to do something to change it.
I keep looking for “fans” on this fan-focused message board, but I just see bitching and whining.
got it. blue man say 'STFU'.
my ticket money, merch money, concessions money, 50/50 ticket money still aren't good enough. don't forget my taxes that support a myriad of things on campus.
maybe you can organize a yard sale in the RC parking lot. us regular joes who can't be fans anymore can donate all our rhody gear and you can sell it and use the money generated for NIL.
Your ticket money and concession money goes to offset the cost of operating the ryan center and to the Oak View Group who manages it. 50/50 money quite literally goes to the winner and the organization that sold you the tickets (50% to women's rowing, 50% to winning ticket, that's what 50/50 means). Your merch money probably somehow goes back to athletics...maybe...but I'm sure there's a royalty fee athletics has to pay back to the University for the branding.
Your taxes support a myriad of 14% of nothing on campus, because that's about what the state gives to URI every year. The school is underfunded by the state. Athletics is actually 100% funded by the students as seen by the "athletics fee" on their bill every semester. So maybe your taxes go to a portion of the base salaries for the staff who are technically state employees so...congrats. If that's the case then all the PC fans in the state of RI are contributing the same to the program as you.
If you're following this train of thought, I'm hoping that you're realizing that maybe you hadn't actually been financially contributing like you thought you had, so I hope you learned something. If you knew all of that already and you're just whining, you can take the STFU to heart.
I am not comparing fanhood to donation amount. If that were the case, then Tom Ryan, Mike, Dave, Stefan, etc would be the only people allowed to be fans. What I am saying is that if you are complaining about the state of this program, and simultaneously decrying the idea of giving $10 to directly help the program, you can shut the fuck up.
Worse, if you are complaining about Rhody's NIL efforts in any capacity while not donating to it, you can especially shut the fuck up.
So if you're taking it personally (you shouldn't) that's a you issue.
You don't need to donate to be considered a "fan" but if all you're going to do is bitch and moan and whine about everything around this program you should donate to have your criticism validated.
Then again, I am talking to the same people who bitch about the lack of coverage from the ProJo, who refuse to be customers of the ProJo, and can't see the logical fallacy and hypocrisy in their outlook on life. Like somehow the ProJo should just cover URI for free even though it's clear URI fans don't want to support their business.
At this point, I am merely looking for "fans" on this message board. I don't see many.
The people on here have delved so far down the hole of their own obtuse cognitive dissonance, somehow they're conflating the collegiate NIL system with URI basketball. Yes, NIL sucks. It's lame. We get that. But it is what it is.
It's not URI's fault that they system is that way, it just is that way. The nice thing is that you could actually actively help URI compete in this new system. It's totally cool if you don't want to donate. Just shut the fuck up with your complaining if you're not going to. Or keep complaining I guess, just don't get butthurt when someone tells you to shut the fuck up and that your opinion is invalid.
Want to be a fan? Try this: "I'm excited about Lawrence, Bassy's return, and the core of House/Green/Fuchs/Estevez getting another year to develop and grow together." That's something a fan would say.
Do you want to be critical? Cool, there's plenty to be critical about. We've sucked for 4 years. Fans criticize their teams all the time. That's literally what this message board is for.
But in this sport, and this world right now, you could actively do something about it with $10 a month. TEN DOLLARS.
If you can't be willing to do that, then yes, your criticisms are completely invalidated as now you're just complaining to complain since you won't actively do anything about it. If the latter is the case, then yes, you can shut the fuck up.
TL;DR - Your fanhood is not dictated by your ability to donate or the amount you donate to the program. But if you refuse to do so, and you have nothing positive to say about the program, your criticisms of the program are invalid. In that case you are not a fan, you are just a whiny, miserable, dick who likes to complain. 
and next day get an update on the impact on the NIL Collective. Sounds like sales to me.