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US Ski Team----funding notions
OK, the USST needs to raise money.
Other countries have tons more money than we do for our sport. Where do the other countries get their money? Only one place: their governments. What is the chance of the US gov't giving XC skiers money? ZERO. What about uplifting public awareness to get thousands of small citizen-fan and small-XC-biz donations to rescue the team? Answer: The US economy is in the tank for small-fry. What resource does America have that no other country can even come close to by a hundred-fold? RICH PEOPLE! I suggest once again that our best hope for uplifting the US XC program is the same hope that made the critical difference for Lance A. and Greg L.: RICH PEOPLE. (To wit, Wenzel for Lance and Mengoni for Greg.) If XC skiers could provoke ONE of the hundreds of multimillionaires who live in Minneapolis (there are far more of them in that one town than in all Scandiland) to get their name and biz-name or at least their vibe all over the US National Ski program, then the story would be a done deal. We'd nail the game. Coz that's what America does best: RICH PEOPLE. Don't shake a stick at em: when they decide to do something they can make things happen. |
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See the XC Oregon model:
http://www.xcoregon.org/supporting.html Yes, it is only pennys in contrast to what the Scandinavians provide to their athletes, but an interesting start. Edgar |
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On 1 Feb 2006 10:33:48 -0800, wrote:
OK, the USST needs to raise money. Other countries have tons more money than we do for our sport. Where do the other countries get their money? Only one place: their governments. Not true. The Norwegian national team and many others have businesses as sponsors. JT **************************** Remove "remove" to reply Visit http://www.jt10000.com **************************** |
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Jeff Potter wrote:
What resource does America have that no other country can even come close to by a hundred-fold? RICH PEOPLE! Looks like NENSA was lucky enough to have a rich donor. http://www.fasterskier.com/news3010.html (wow!) |
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John Forrest Tomlinson kirjoitti: Other countries have tons more money than we do for our sport. Where do the other countries get their money? Only one place: their governments. Not true. The Norwegian national team and many others have businesses as sponsors. I'd be truly surprised if more than a third of the budget comes from public funds in any form. In Finland the annual budget for XC is currently =801.3M (i.e. more or less what it was before 2001) of which 350.000 comes from the government. I'm pretty sure that the ratio is about the same in the Scandinavian countries as well. I don't expect that the sport gets much more taxpayers' money in the continental countries, either. OTOH in Germany and Italy an awful lot of athletes are on a salary from the customs, the police or the army, which is a form of government support, but the federations there still have to rely on TV and sponsor money to balance their budgets. Anders |
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I suspect that the gov't/social supports in these countries provide
what advertising-only support couldn't hope to. Sure the ski companies and others put in a lot. They do quite a bit for us, too, I imagine. But I mean to emphasize critical factors. What about the community college ski schools of Scandi? It seems like they might provide a key link between junior programs and the national teams. I recall in Pete's book that he went over as a young person and hopped right into such a program---it might've even been free-school. It seems like a huge social/govt/institutional link that we don't have here and which ad-sponsorship couldn't hope to replace. I note also that in the new "Creating Champions" book that our fall-thru gap between HS/coll teams and the national team is a big part of what dooms us. I'm saying that our social/govt system will never help us bridge it. And to bridge it will cost a big chunk. But some one big millionaire Mnpls donor who wants to ride on the coattails of the first-ever US Gold Oly could make it happen. If I was a millionaire I'd jump on it. Actually, we probably do have the resources to do lots more comm-college development than we do. Not to pay room'n'board but for major club support, skis, vans, gas cards. The potential is there in at least some places---and neglected. I have to cart out my old story about running the Univ. of Mich. XC ski club as a non-student for several years: we got all kinds of free stuff, about $3K in funding: gas, van, equip, wax, fees, suits. Anyone in town could participate. When I left town the whole thing went to zilch. That was free money that no one wanted. How many community programs could be had if someone filled out the forms and found some willing skiers? Still...that first big ANGEL is what's needed. One big gold and the spigot will turn on, sez me. --JP |
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the anonymous donor was me.
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OK, so it'll be a tough row to hoe. Some a those fat cats have to be
out there skiing. Waiting for the right chat at the bar for them to save the Team. : ) All right, the "Creating Champions" book refers to a couple other Oly programs which are small, poor and deliver, so maybe cash isn't the problem after all. I think it was Canoe & Kayak and, uh, I forget, but apparently there are other true condender teams out there working just as poor as we are, like the Slovenians. Well, here's hoping for bigtime good luck at Turino!!! |
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