Here is my suggestion from the premium board to get the band to all of the games, this year and beyond.
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Can you please explain how in the world the band can't fund the entire season? Given the hundreds of thousands dollars given through the 12th Man Season ticket donations, Association of Former Student funds, the corporate matches of funds etc and the endowments for the band, I and I am sure others don't understand this. As a multi year season ticket holder, who donates every year, seeing the annual donation at halftime, there seems to be a gap.
Back from the TABA meeting and here is what I can report:
Aggie Band Travel Fund currently holds $2 Million, and we need to get this number up to $10 Million
2) Aggie Band donations/giving are still @ SWC/Big 12 levels
3) Funds from the AFS, 12th Man and Athletic department will cover the cost of $400K to send the full Aggie Band to Auburn this year
4) It will cost $250K to send 100 members of the Aggie Band to SC & Alabama
All road game travel is covered for 2018, so the focus is to increase funding for 2019 and beyond.
Thank you for the response. I appreciate the candor.
I think the Band needs to layout the needs in very specific terms. We need X for the full band to go to games, we need Y to send 100 members to the remaining games and we need Z for the Travel fund endowment. Based on your information, we need an additional $150K for the SC and Alabama game by X date to have the full band at the game. Set the targets now and make it a grass roots campaign. Build the target for 2019 and beyond NOW!.
I truly believe a full campaign on this target would be an easy sell and would guarantee that this happens. If you really want to make it happen, place graphics for each away game for the next 5 years, the targeted full travel game 10 year and the target on the endowment. Place these on the Association front page, the 12th Man Foundation front page, the Foundation site and on TexAgs.com.
Let's make this happen and get this done set up in the next week or so and meet the goal by the end of the year.
We all want to see the band at the games and we know it makes a difference. We paid for the coach, let's get the rest of the plan together to get this program to the top, NOW.