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RJHokie OP
Feb 19, 2025 at 07:22 PM ET
So, does anyone know how to determine how much money
per sport has been donated during this “Give-A-Thon?” With each successive Giving Day(s) event it appears the transparency and user-friendliness of the system gets worse when it comes to tracking the amount of funds donated by sport. It’s become a “hide and seek” event wrt the $ numbers.

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gelded turkey
Totally agree RJ!
Funny, I was trying to see today how much money had been donated to softball via "Giving Day" and as far as I could tell, one cannot see a specific sport breakdown. All I could see was what the total to "athletics" is. I am pretty sure in years past, one could look at sport specific donors/tallies. It is utterly ridiculous how this university still struggles with all issues related to donating money ie ease of doing it, transparency, etc.
hokiepro hokiepro
I could see number of donors but not $ total
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gelded turkey
Agree, click on "athletics" and one can see the breakdown
for the different sports in terms of number of donations but you can't see the total $ donated to that particular sport.
Will Stewart Will Stewart
Yeah, here's what that looks like ....
laphroaig laphroaig
4 of the top 5 are all women's programs with the Spirit Squad mostly women.
hokiepro hokiepro
Imo that shows the VT fanbase’s desire for a national title
In a team sport. Overall more fans want that for the school and see the sports where they believe we’re closest as the most important investments
1977hokie 1977hokie
Also the Women sports still have a college vibe that is appealing
laphroaig laphroaig
This right up there ^^^^^^^^^^
King of Hokies King of Hokies
Geez, look at where Men's bball is
hokiepro hokiepro
That’s about how many go to games
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saret
It makes it difficult to plead poverty and beg for money if you let
everyone know what you got. It's called panhandling. ** Edited by saret at 2/19/2025, 9:44:42 PM
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RJHokie OP
Yeah, it’s quite stupid.
Babcock and crew are suppressing info again. It’s a shame that it’s gotten to where you need a FOIA to get info out of them.
laphroaig laphroaig
Reminds me of what I said to my mother-in-law once. . . .
"If i want any sh!t from you, I'll squeeze it out of you." Forgive me, I wasn't having a good day! Back to the topic at hand Maybe somebody needs to put the squeeze on Whit.
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UpperQuad
Advancement is very secretive with data
No alumni directly is published anymore No listing of major donors for athletics or academics No listing of who's in Ut Prosim (the honor society for major donors) Chapters can't get email lists of alumni in their areas.
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saret
Which kind of begs the one word question,...WHY?
laphroaig laphroaig
The answer is
stupidity
Atlee Hokie Atlee Hokie
The day when Sands retires & Babcock & JB are retired or fired ....
... can't come soon enough.
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Techdady
Sands is a BIG supporter of Softball, just saying.........
Atlee Hokie Atlee Hokie
Understand. Didn't ask for his removal. Thought his retirement date ...
... was set already. Unfortunately, Sands isn't going to do anything with Whit. Whit is good as long as Sands is in office.
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TheFacts
Because some donation #'s aren't published?
Atlee Hokie Atlee Hokie
You think it's good overall practice to be secretive with giving numbers?
Atlee Hokie Atlee Hokie
Of course not. That's ludicrous. It's just another ...
... in a long line of bad decisions, non decisions, and total opaque covering of the athletic department. And that doesn't count what has been done to the football program by WB and JB. ** Edited by Atlee Hokie at 2/19/2025, 10:04:54 PM
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saret
OK. Then my question is, why not?
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RJHokie OP
The info I posted about has been available on prior Giving Day Events,
It’s not available this time.
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TheFacts
It's on there now.
Enjoy your audit.
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RJHokie OP
FYI, the total for the individual sports do not equal the total contributed
for athletics only by approximately $800k to $900k. The difference is probably HSF, and a few other categories. My point here is I wish they wouldn't half-ass the reporting. It's not a good look and implies the school/athletic department is suppressing info. If you aren't interested, so be it. A fair number of others are interested though. The lack of transparency since Babcock was hired is quite concerning to a lot of folks.
VTChip VTChip
Excellent info, RJ
Thanks for your efforts.
VTChip VTChip
We gave a softball mom on the case
She has experience as a professional fundraiser and has sent several e-mails and responded to a couple of posts. No definitive answers gets though. “I’ll check into it for you.”
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NokieHokie
Which means "shut up and go away!"
VTChip VTChip
Actually, she persisted and got the numbers - see above
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saret
Be sure to thank her Chip!
VTChip VTChip
Well, here are my numbers, 87 donors for $12,970
AWESOME, job everyone!
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RJHokie OP
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