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Community Engagement

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Service Projects & Community Events

  • 1 Service Project per semester

    • Christmas Tree Donations

    • Community dinner

    • Thanksgiving dinner

    • Senior Living Center

    • Trunk or treat

  • 1 Community Event per month 

    • Parades

    • K-12 visits

    • Basketball clinics

    • Hospital visits

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Booster Parents 

  • Set of donors assigned to every player

  • Dinners at booster parents homes

  • Pizza and socializing after games

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
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Team & Individual Camps

  • Summer Months 

  • June - Team

  • July - Individual and Elite camp

  • Provide shirt and ball 

  • Develop strong community relationships

  • Well organized and planned 

  • Provide a positive experience for all campers

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Fundraising Events

  • BBall BBQ and silent auction 

  • Golf tournament

  • Basketball Bingo

  • Buy a player's jersey 

  • Raffle prizes at games

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
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Themed Games

  • Faculty & Staff Appreciation Night

  • National Girls & Women in Sports

  • Kids Day

  • Alumni Night

  • Family Night

  • Athletes stay afterwards to sign merch, take photos and engage with fans on these specific nights

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Vision for the

Future

Name, Image & Likeness

NIL is the reality of college athletics today. The best action to take is to help educate athletes on NIL and proper ways to file taxes. I will adapt to the changing and evolving the climate of intercollegiate sport. I want my athletes to come out prepared to enter the workforce with necessary tools and skills to succeed.

 

"The proper characterization of NIL payments as either personal service income or NIL royalties is critical because it determines where the income is sourced, i.e., the national, state, and local jurisdictions in which the income may be taxed. It also determines the precise nature of the taxes assessed" (Pogroszewski and Smoker, 2024, pp. 372). "Entities and individuals making NIL payments to student athletes must file an information return to report those transactions to the IRS, and they must furnish a copy to the athlete" (Pogroszewski and Smoker, 2024, pp. 374).

 

Reference: Pogroszewski, A., and Smoker, K. (2024). Name, Image & Likeness: Three Words That Ended Amateurism Under the NCAA -- And the Unforeseen Tax Consequences. Marquette Sports Law Review. 34(2). https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1883&context=sportslaw

Transfer Portal

  • 1 year contract every season guaranteed

  • Opportunity!

  • Get the players we want or wanted

  • Getting people bought in means buying into them

Retention

  • Students will transfer

  • Have difficult conversations

  • Communicate throughout the year

  • Identify which players we might lose and the cost of that

Amateur Athletics? Semi-Pro?

  • How to adapt to this new age of intercollegiate athletics?

  • Be flexible

  • Learn new skills

  • Willingness to be open-minded

  • Treat players as adults and prepare them for workplace

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