From TroyTrojans.com:
http://troytrojans.com/news/2012/10/2/ge...23716.aspx

The Troy University Athletics Department recently received a $250,000 Leadership Gift from Mike and Cindy Dodds of Luverene, Ala., Troy Director of Athletics John Hartwell announced on Tuesday.

Dodds Leadership Gift Facility Projects
• Football North End Zone Facility Project – New home of Troy Trojans football operations, locker rooms, coaches offices, team meeting space, recruiting lounge, premium seating and suites

• Golf Practice Facility Project – Dedicated practice facility, USGA regulation greens, driving range, short-game practice area, covered hitting bays and clubhouse

• Softball Complex Renovation Project – Facility renovation, expanded dugouts, renovated home locker room, covered training facility and permanent seating

Click the link for facility renderings.

They presented that at the MSU game.

Pocket change....But every bit helps. We need more people to give money.

Yeah, but they just posted it on the athletics page.

That is a nice gift but will get stretched pretty thin to do all those updates. Anyone willing to donate $75mil to USA will get a statue erected of them next to the new football stadium. Any takers???

Did y'all get that turf fixed yet ? It was awful.

(10-02-2012 01:54 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  Did y'all get that turf fixed yet ? It was awful.

Whats aweful about it???

(10-02-2012 01:05 PM)troy4ever21 Wrote:  From TroyTrojans.com:
http://troytrojans.com/news/2012/10/2/ge...23716.aspx

The Troy University Athletics Department recently received a $250,000 Leadership Gift from Mike and Cindy Dodds of Luverene, Ala., Troy Director of Athletics John Hartwell announced on Tuesday.

Dodds Leadership Gift Facility Projects
• Football North End Zone Facility Project – New home of Troy Trojans football operations, locker rooms, coaches offices, team meeting space, recruiting lounge, premium seating and suites

• Golf Practice Facility Project – Dedicated practice facility, USGA regulation greens, driving range, short-game practice area, covered hitting bays and clubhouse

• Softball Complex Renovation Project – Facility renovation, expanded dugouts, renovated home locker room, covered training facility and permanent seating

Click the link for facility renderings.

i can fish that out of the ashtray of the maxima and between the seat cushions.

(10-02-2012 02:33 PM)dahbeed Wrote:  

(10-02-2012 01:05 PM)troy4ever21 Wrote:  From TroyTrojans.com:
http://troytrojans.com/news/2012/10/2/ge...23716.aspx

The Troy University Athletics Department recently received a $250,000 Leadership Gift from Mike and Cindy Dodds of Luverene, Ala., Troy Director of Athletics John Hartwell announced on Tuesday.

Dodds Leadership Gift Facility Projects
• Football North End Zone Facility Project – New home of Troy Trojans football operations, locker rooms, coaches offices, team meeting space, recruiting lounge, premium seating and suites

• Golf Practice Facility Project – Dedicated practice facility, USGA regulation greens, driving range, short-game practice area, covered hitting bays and clubhouse

• Softball Complex Renovation Project – Facility renovation, expanded dugouts, renovated home locker room, covered training facility and permanent seating

Click the link for facility renderings.

i can fish that out of the ashtray of the maxima and between the seat cushions.

can I have 5k?

You guys have lost your minds! 250k is nothing to sneeze at.

(10-02-2012 02:09 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  

(10-02-2012 01:54 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  Did y'all get that turf fixed yet ? It was awful.

Whats aweful about it???

It was old and needed to be replaced. I'm pretty sure y'all got new turf this year.

(10-02-2012 01:41 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  Pocket change....But every bit helps. We need more people to give money.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. However, I agree I don't understand how that amount of money is supposed to pay for the listed improvements.

I'll tell you what helped at NT. We moved the athletics fund raisers directly under the main campus development people. I think that 1) minimized the competition between the academic/athletic fundraisers and 2) pooled resources and experience.

This year the AD decided we need to build a dedicated BB practice facility and upgrade the video system at the arena. Price tag was almost three million. The new development people were able to raise that in less than thirty days.

I don't know how Troy handles fund raising, but maybe that unified effort would help.

(10-02-2012 03:29 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(10-02-2012 02:09 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  

(10-02-2012 01:54 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  Did y'all get that turf fixed yet ? It was awful.

Whats aweful about it???

It was old and needed to be replaced. I'm pretty sure y'all got new turf this year.

Oh....Ya that got replaced this year. It looks AMAZING . dark green turf. Theres pics of it on this site somewhere.

(10-02-2012 03:36 PM)MeanGreenEngineer Wrote:  

(10-02-2012 01:41 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  Pocket change....But every bit helps. We need more people to give money.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. However, I agree I don't understand how that amount of money is supposed to pay for the listed improvements.

I'll tell you what helped at NT. We moved the athletics fund raisers directly under the main campus development people. I think that 1) minimized the competition between the academic/athletic fundraisers and 2) pooled resources and experience.

This year the AD decided we need to build a dedicated BB practice facility and upgrade the video system at the arena. Price tag was almost three million. The new development people were able to raise that in less than thirty days.

I don't know how Troy handles fund raising, but maybe that unified effort would help.

Its not going to pay for those things but it will HELP for sure.....WE have about 30% or so of the total funds needed for our 35Million dollar Football Stadium addition raised thus far.

(10-02-2012 03:39 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  Its not going to pay for those things but it will HELP for sure.....WE have about 30% or so of the total funds needed for our 35Million dollar Football Stadium addition raised thus far.

I don't know how it works in Georgia, but in Texas you can't use academic money to directly fund athletics. Can you guys use a student passed fee to pay off a bond issue?

Students here have passed two fees to do that. I'm sure you're all sick of posts about our new stadium, but that is what paid for it, and what has paid for half a dozen new facilities on campus.

However, with the economy the way it is, I think our students are tapped out. If we want a baseball team its going to have to be 100% alumni financed. I don't know how Troy students would fee about passing a fee.

(10-02-2012 03:47 PM)MeanGreenEngineer Wrote:  

(10-02-2012 03:39 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  Its not going to pay for those things but it will HELP for sure.....WE have about 30% or so of the total funds needed for our 35Million dollar Football Stadium addition raised thus far.

I don't know how it works in Georgia, but in Texas you can't use academic money to directly fund athletics. Can you guys use a student passed fee to pay off a bond issue?

Students here have passed two fees to do that. I'm sure you're all sick of posts about our new stadium, but that is what paid for it, and what has paid for half a dozen new facilities on campus.

However, with the economy the way it is, I think our students are tapped out. If we want a baseball team its going to have to be 100% alumni financed. I don't know how Troy students would fee about passing a fee.

Troy isnt in Georgia. But I dont know how anything works in Georgia lol.

(10-02-2012 04:07 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  Troy isnt in Georgia. But I dont know how anything works in Georgia lol.

/faceplam.

Alabama. Sorry, I had just emailed a guy at Georgia Tech before I wrote that post and I must have had it on the mind.

(10-02-2012 04:13 PM)MeanGreenEngineer Wrote:  

(10-02-2012 04:07 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  Troy isnt in Georgia. But I dont know how anything works in Georgia lol.

/faceplam.

Alabama. Sorry, I had just emailed a guy at Georgia Tech before I wrote that post and I must have had it on the mind.

Georgiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.....Geeeeeeeeeeeeeorgiaaaa