Leaderboard

This is the most insightful post of this thread. You mention running the department in the red by Waddell. That truly is a problem. The posters here can minimize that, but that is only because they are not the ones that have to pay the exorbitant and ever increasing athletic fee. There does need to be a balance betweeen the fees, expenditures and expected athletic results. Given that thought, Waddell still was the most significant person in Towson Athletics over the past 15 years in terms of getting students involved. Your notes regarding the drying up of sponsorship dollars is critical. Those dollars must reappear for Towson to have any hope of progressing. That is in the hands of the fundraising office. I do not know how much has been raised, but I do know that UNCW has raised as much as 4 million in a single year and we have not come close to that. If you have to give away 2500 tickets, I think that is better than selling 500 and having 2000 empty seats. It takes a new, out of the box mindset. The question is would President Schatzel be willing to take a major risk and allow the athletic department to go down an entirely new and untried path. We seem to be in a cookie cutter mindset. We wind up being just another mid major. We need to do something that makes us stand out. Big risk......Big Reward.