Golf Outing

[GP1]

There has been a lot of talk on the board about there not being a golf outing. My stance is it is not the responsibility of the football coaches to put together a golf outing. It should be the responsibility of the Athletic Department to put it together.

I just got a mailer from Wake Forest about National Deacon Club Day, August 30, 2010. Not up on their internet yet. While their direct mail pieces look terrible this year, it gets the message through.

Golf outing at 10 AM at Old Town Club. $115 per person. 88 person limit.

Tennis Tournament 1:30-4:30 at the Indoor Tennis Center. $20 per person. Box lunch included. Tournament style.

Social & BBQ. 7 PM BridgerField House at BB&T Field. Includes Walk of Champions and special medallions given out to freshman student athlets commemorating their acceptance into Wake.

This is what UofA should be doing. Let the football coaches coach football. Let the basketball coaches coach basketball. Let the Z-Fund folks put outings on. It doesn't narrow down the activities to golf. I can't stand golf and I never played in the outings because I hate the sport so much. I probably wouldn't go play tennis, but I would go to the BBQ if I lived near Winston-Salem.

[akzipper]

this is exactly how I feel! I couldn't care less if Ianello didn't have a golf outing. He's a coach, he needs to be coaching and recruiting. In his first year he should have more important things to do, which is just doing his job so we can have a winner on the field. Also I really don't see how a golf outing would really do anything to bring more people to the games. Think about it, who would really be there? season ticket holders, z-fund members? people who already support the program. I don't think an average joe who's not familiar with the Zips would just randomly go to the outing, and while he slices yet another ball into the woods, thinks to himself, "well i suck at golf, but maybe I should go watch a team that sucks too"

[GP1]

I'd like to provide some more perspective on this issue if I may.

Someone in the Athletic Department should be responsible for the golf outing and a women's day. In real Athletic Departments, someone in marketing handles this. "You're full of crap GP1, no school would do that. Stop putting down the Zips."......

Anyhow, Wake Forest has a person named Mike Odom. His title is Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing/Special Projects. How do I know this? He put together the 13th annual Women's Day at BB&T Field where 200 women participated in a three hour football clinic. Quoting the Gold Rush, "The proceeds from the event benefit the Coach's Kids program, which provides tickets to home sporting events to underprivileged and at-risk children in the Piedmont Triad area." WOW!!!!! They're combining expanding the fan base with a good cause. They are just splitting the atom up there in Winston-Salem.

There are some real good quotes about how the ladies feel closer to the program, etc. after attending the clinic.

Getting back to the main point. I think it is great that UofA had a Women's Day this summer, but we should have been doing this 10 years ago. Golf outings should be handled by the Athletic Department staff and not coaches. This is a marketing function and not a foundation function as well. It is moronic and little league to ask a coach to organize a golf outing. It is the job of the Athletic Department to do these things, not the coaches.