FB: Southern Athletic Association

[BSCpanthers]

With all the craziness that was BSC last spring, our numbers are very promising for this season.  Total on roster is 103.  We have 20 seniors, not sure how many are 5th year or traditional seniors.  We had 32 freshman coming in this year, which is down from our number of freshman last season.  We also have 30 sophomores and 21 juniors. 

[Ron Boerger]

All 2023 SAA rosters:

Berry, 119 total:  3 graduate, 18 senior, 23 junior, 48 sophomore, 37 first year.
B-SC, 103: -/20/21/30/32
Centre, 120:  8/13/16/30/53 (!!)
Hendrix, 96: 1/12/10/25/48
Millsaps, 109: -/13/15/34/47
Rhodes, 96: 1/15/23/21/36
Sewanee, 76: 2/11/15/16/32
Southwestern, 118: -/21/22/26/49
Trinity, 132: 16/25/23/31/37 

Interesting to see the big entering classes at Centre, Hendrix, Millsaps, and Southwestern.  For those who haven't been around for decades, Southwestern was quite successful in the final years of SCAC play and it will be interesting to see how they fare as they leave behind the ASC, where they were 7-13 the last two years (and 0-5 the spring COVID season).

[Ron Boerger]

By way of comparison, St. John's has nearly 200 on their roster; UHMB doesn't have their 2023 up yet but usually carry around that many (195 last season).

[Crubacker]

The number I saw for UMHB this year was 257

[Etchglow]

I know Ron already did the counts but I was bored and wanted to test my tool on some other schools so I did the SAA.  Here is the google document that contains all of the roster breakdowns as of 11:10 PM Central.  If you see any errors or parsing issues let me know and I can write some code to fix those.  The script can now pull the rosters on demand so it should be easy to update.  Now off to the other conferences tomorrow!


SAA Roster Breakdown

[Cowboy2]

I know Ron already did the counts but I was bored and wanted to test my tool on some other schools so I did the SAA.  Here is the google document that contains all of the roster breakdowns as of 11:10 PM Central.  If you see any errors or parsing issues let me know and I can write some code to fix those.  The script can now pull the rosters on demand so it should be easy to update.  Now off to the other conferences tomorrow!


SAA Roster Breakdown

+1

[Ron Boerger]

I know Ron already did the counts but I was bored and wanted to test my tool on some other schools so I did the SAA.  Here is the google document that contains all of the roster breakdowns as of 11:10 PM Central.  If you see any errors or parsing issues let me know and I can write some code to fix those.  The script can now pull the rosters on demand so it should be easy to update.  Now off to the other conferences tomorrow!


SAA Roster Breakdown

I bet there will be a lot of people interested in your tool, Etch.  I did find one minor inconsistency, your calculations in cells J5:J6 are looking at 'gone' rather than 'new'.   Also, H8:H10 look for 'gone' instead of 'returning'.

[Etchglow]

I know Ron already did the counts but I was bored and wanted to test my tool on some other schools so I did the SAA.  Here is the google document that contains all of the roster breakdowns as of 11:10 PM Central.  If you see any errors or parsing issues let me know and I can write some code to fix those.  The script can now pull the rosters on demand so it should be easy to update.  Now off to the other conferences tomorrow!


SAA Roster Breakdown

I bet there will be a lot of people interested in your tool, Etch.  I did find one minor inconsistency, your calculations in cells J5:J6 are looking at 'gone' rather than 'new'.   Also, H8:H10 look for 'gone' instead of 'returning'.

Should be fixed now.  What happens when you're not very good at excel and have multiple iterations of the formulas in those cells lol .  Thanks for the catch!

[Ron Boerger]

Thanks, Etch.  Looking at the numbers you so kindly provided:

Berry (125):  Lost 50 (30 non-Sr+), gained 43, net -7.  Change since 8/14, +6.
B-SC (104): Lost 66 (39 non-Sr+), gained 34, net -32.  Change since 8/14, +1.
Centre(120):  Lost 54 (28), gained 57, net +3.  Change since 8/14, 0.
Hendrix(90):  Lost 45 (31), gained 44, net -1.  Change since 8/14, -6.
Millsaps(101):  Lost 53 (39), gained 44, net -9.  Change since 8/14, -8.
Rhodes(96):  Lost 27 (8), gained 37, net +10.  Change since 8/14, 0.
Sewanee(76):  Lost 29 (16), gained 37, net +8.  Change since 8/14, 0.
Southwestern(118):  Lost 40 (30), gained 53, net +13.  Change since 8/14, 0.
Trinity(132):  Lost 21 (7), gained 38, net +17.  Change since 8/14, 0.

[Ron Boerger]

And good news for B-SC:  Birmingham city council commits up to $5 mill. to Birmingham Southern College to stay open.

[Ron Boerger]

A decent B-SC preview from alabamanewscenter.com.

[BSCpanthers]

A decent B-SC preview from alabamanewscenter.com.

That's good news but I'm still a little confused by them stating that our fund raising is still at about $45mil.  That's where it has been for a year. 

[Ralph Turner]

BSC, with respect to your $45M comment, I bumped my post about fundraising. BSC is not getting the "smart money" gifts from wealthy alumni & foundations. Those deep pockets see no change in the overall situation.

I pulled out a pro forma for a typical capital campaign for $100M recommended by a professional consultant. Here is how you would raise $100M

Number of donors        Gift             Cumulative Total
1                             $20M                  $20M
1                              $10M                 $30M
1                               $5M                   $35M
3                                $3M                  $44M
4                                $2M                  $52M

Find those 10 people and you are halfway.

15                               $1M                  $67M   
30                                $500K              $82M

There you have 80% of your goal in 55 people

40                               $200K               $90M
50                               $100K               $95M
75                                $50K                $98,750,000

The next 165 almost put you over the top.   

Double those gifts or double the donors at each level and you have $200M.

[BSCpanthers]

We really aren't getting any news about how they are going about the fundraising.  The only thing I've seen is they are trying to re-engage with the alumni base, I'm not even sure if there is an alumni association. Also, there isn't an athletic booster club, not sure if any of you have one either, but that seems like it would be an easy way to fundraiser for athletics. 

[cush]

Has BSC got any money from the State of Alabama yet? I would guess a fundraising push doesn't occur until the state money situation is settled since having a big fundraising haul might jeopardize the state giving them money, ironic  the good news for BSC seems to be the state, city powerbrokers etc don't want to see the school shutdown, the bad news is they are lousy at fundraising from big money people/organizations, they need some dukes