This is a terrible take.... sorry not sorry.
First off, if Every single person that has or currently has an issue with ANYTHING regarding the program, the athletics dept, the performance on the court, how much NIL one person is receiving, ticket prices, OOC Schedule, certain information not being public information (such as how much a player is making, the real reason for a players absence from a team..... etc.) If every single person that had/has anything to complain about stopped donating..... our program would fall apart..... because guess what.... even things are going well..... there's always something that could be better.
Second of all, you're telling
@duncanlamb &
@Wolfpack Ram to stop donating because they stating their particular issues with certain things going on in or around the program?.....
Well how bout this..... how bout you stop reading these boards, or put them on ignore because you don't like what they are saying? You're over here getting pissy because they're airing their grievances (which is their right) and you're telling them they have no right to complain about things "just because they donate to the RAF or NIL, or buy season tickets..... Well Newsflash dude..... you have no right to tell them what they can and can't complain about.
This isn't the Facebook positive group where everything's gotta be blue skies and sunshine pumping 24/7/365. So Get the F*** over yourself.
If anyone's being hypocritical.... it's you. Because you're telling someone else to stop complaining, while complaining about their complaining. Again, if you don't wanna read what they gotta say, put them on ignore.
Also.... the only real reason REAL Pro Sports teams shouldn't be brought into this discussion.... is because REAL Pro sports teams like teams in the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL... etc. They have multi million & billion dollar owners. They can afford fans not buying tickets, not showing up to games, not buying concessions & still have their team operational. Go look at the (Formerly known as) "Oakland" Athletics..... or go look at the Washington Commanders under Dan Snyder.
Their stadiums are/were empty FOR YEARS. Fans were boycotting the games for numerous reasons.... did their teams fold? No.... and only the A's ended up relocating (which was gonna happen anyway as the Oakland Coliseum is/was a dump & their lease was up at the stadium I believe). But despite all the fans boycotting those teams for years, and The Commanders (Formerly known as Redskins) who lost their Fed Ex Sponsor & had to rename their current stadium because of it..... their teams are still operational.
Meanwhile..... what would happen to our Sports Programs, if every single Donor, season ticket holder, Sponsor, NIL contributor.... etc. that has ever had an issue with ANYTHING surrounding our program or Ath. Dept..... just woke up & decided tomorrow.... "I'm done, I'm not spending another penny on VCU Athletics, The Ram Athletic Fund, NIL.... etc."
Our Sports Programs would fall flat on their faces..... we would no longer survive as a D1 program.
Just like,There's a number of reasons we don't have football at our school.... most of us don't want it, there's no real viable option of a place to play (tho with the new stadiums & fields around the Diamond being built, they could've factored that in, if we had plans to play football anytime in the near future)..... BUT you know what probably, the biggest reason we don't have football is?....... We don't have the funding to support it! And unlike our former rivals down in the 757..... we're not willing to kill our solidly successful basketball program just to try and start a football team.
Wolfpack still donates & supports the program because he cares about it & wants it to succeed. If he didn't care about the program, or didn't want to see it succeed... he wouldn't donate to the program AND he probably wouldn't waste his time complaining about issues that he sees. Or he'd do what everyone accuses DL of doing 95% of the time & start trolling our fan base on these message boards just to get everyone riled up.
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