Post by wrestlingpublicist on Sept 14, 2007 8:37:58 GMT -5
This year's it's especially critical to muster all of the help we can get in support of the wrestling season. When I was wrestling SID in the mid-1970s, we had a Takedown Club. It was multifunctional: fund raising, fan projects, and even help in recruiting. (Boosters can't contact recruits these days, but back then if money or other inducements weren't involved, the rules didn't prohibit a local Duck from talking up the school to a local prospect.)
Here's a copy of a membership solicitation from the year immediately following the team's first Pacific-8 Conference championship. The language would give the athletic department's compliance officer a coronary these days, but as I said, the regulations were a bit more relaxed in those days.
So, how about it? Who in the Eugene-Springfield area will take the lead by getting in contact with the coaching staff and coordinating an adult support group, which hopefully will work in conjunction with the student group I proposed? One caveat: I don't know if the athletic department allows individual-sport booster clubs to raise money external to the Duck Athletic Fund. Some schools do and some don't. For example, the baseball booster club at Oregon State is taking the lead in a $4 fund drive to improve the OSU stadium.
But certainly there are other valid reasons to reactive the Takedown Club, if there isn't such a group already in existance.
The University of Nebraska has an especially active wrestling booster club. Click on this link to visit their web site.
www.huskerwrestling.com/
I posted an appeal for Oregon wrestling on their open message boards.
Hey, Duck wrestling fans, I'm trying to get something stirred up on the surface to go along with all of the behind-the-scenes activities that Coaches Finley and Kearney are doing to save the program.
Here's a copy of a membership solicitation from the year immediately following the team's first Pacific-8 Conference championship. The language would give the athletic department's compliance officer a coronary these days, but as I said, the regulations were a bit more relaxed in those days.
So, how about it? Who in the Eugene-Springfield area will take the lead by getting in contact with the coaching staff and coordinating an adult support group, which hopefully will work in conjunction with the student group I proposed? One caveat: I don't know if the athletic department allows individual-sport booster clubs to raise money external to the Duck Athletic Fund. Some schools do and some don't. For example, the baseball booster club at Oregon State is taking the lead in a $4 fund drive to improve the OSU stadium.
But certainly there are other valid reasons to reactive the Takedown Club, if there isn't such a group already in existance.
The University of Nebraska has an especially active wrestling booster club. Click on this link to visit their web site.
www.huskerwrestling.com/
I posted an appeal for Oregon wrestling on their open message boards.
Hey, Duck wrestling fans, I'm trying to get something stirred up on the surface to go along with all of the behind-the-scenes activities that Coaches Finley and Kearney are doing to save the program.
