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19 hours ago, Bull Nut said:

My decision to temporarily pull financial support is based on a decade's worth of poor leadership and poor decision making. I will resume my financial support when I see a return on my past investments (progress on facilities and/or a competitive product on the field).

I can no longer blindly throw money at a program that has shown incompetence time and time again. I hope it gets turned around one day and I will gladly give what I can to support the program financially. Until then, there are more important things in life that I'd rather be spending my discretionary time and income on.

If it was an investment, the IRS wouldn’t let you claim it as a deduction.

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These kind of discussions always perplex  I never understand why people feel they need to justify whether or not they choose to donate or how much or to whom.  Or why others criticize them for what th

Triple B
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There’s never a good time to pull financial support for a program like USF but doing it now exponentially increases the damage. And your reason for the IPF not being further along than it is may be in

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My thoughts exactly, if most of the high schools in my town have IPF’s, then why in the hell don’t we have one, build the f’n thing.  

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1 hour ago, Fold FB Invest in BB said:

If it was an investment, the IRS wouldn’t let you claim it as a deduction.

You are no longer able to deduct charitable donations to University athletic departments. Even more of a reason to expect a return on investment...

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Those of you that believe you should not expect anything in return have lost touch with reality or have settled into an unfathomable amount of apathy. Boosters from universities across the country have literally run coaching staffs out of town for not meeting expectations. There should absolutely be an expectation when donating to USF Athletics. 

At the end of the day, I'm not telling people what to do with their money (like some are telling me). If you would like to donate and not expect anything in return, then more power to you. 

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2 hours ago, Fold FB Invest in BB said:

If it was an investment, the IRS wouldn’t let you claim it as a deduction.

As corny as it may sound, the only thing that it could possibly be an "investment' in is the student athletes. If you're looking at it in any other way you're treating the support as an entertainment value and I can fully understand not wanting to throw money away on it.

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16 minutes ago, Triple B said:

As corny as it may sound, the only thing that it could possibly be an "investment' in is the student athletes. If you're looking at it in any other way you're treating the support as an entertainment value and I can fully understand not wanting to throw money away on it.

Exactly. I enjoy watching the kids play, and if I could help provide them an education, even better.

 

1 hour ago, Bull Nut said:

You are no longer able to deduct charitable donations to University athletic departments. Even more of a reason to expect a return on investment...

Only if you don’t donate beyond what you get out of your tickets.

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2 hours ago, Bull Nut said:

You are no longer able to deduct charitable donations to University athletic departments. Even more of a reason to expect a return on investment...

This is not accurate. You can’t deduct your seat donation. But if your seat donation is $100 and you give USF $200 then the other $100 if deductible 

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On 11/23/2020 at 7:42 PM, Peatearpan said:

IPF is necessary, I honestly thought we would have groundbreaking at the start of this season. **** Covid had to go and muck things up.

the plague is the excuse for all things large and small. there is a multitude of construction going on in Fl and most of the country where people really want to live. ipf all or nothing at all due to sluggish funds might make one rethink the plan and adjust to what "could" be built. coaches in the past have suggested that the weather can reek havoc on practice schedules and game prep so......sounds like the major concern is the ability to adjust to the weather first and foremost. more amenities and luxuries can be added later. seems we need practice practice practice...think phases 

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UCF’s cost $4 mil and it’s a shed. At least put something up already...f’n joke of leadership taking place. 

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Just out of curiosity, if the goal is 4.6K, would that be the highest number of accounts the University has held? Was there a higher tally at a previous point in time?

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On 11/24/2020 at 12:07 PM, John Lewis said:

Thank you BulledOver!!

Ha! Your one of the good ones John..Thanks for what you do

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