George Kurtz big keynote address next week
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Cmon alumni brother Kurtz, you may not be a hoops fan but it's nice to see your alma mater on TV doing well and fun to watch... You can throw on your TV all over the USA and smile and say that's my school......... Thank you for all you've given to the academics, but as a Police Officer graduate who gives as best he can, I take pride in seeing our Pirates do well in EVERYTHING, I don't care for golf but when they win in golf I take pride, so as you know men's basketball brings much attention to our alma mater, if you can bring us all as a community in a better position due to your Seton Hall degree it would be so very welcomed and appreciated... Thank you for representing us well thus far and being a great SHU alumni... Very Respectfully, K. Said ' 03 BA Criminal Justice
Unless he's giving a keynote to our athletics department from inside the basketball facility while handing a large check to Bryan Felt, all I got is a shoulder shrug. Congrats to him I guess?
This is where someone needs to give SHA a plane ticket and send him to this event. There must be some after hours schmoozing events for this event. Sha needs to get in there and start a relationship with Kurtz. This is Sha's biggest and most important recruit. If we don't have a billionaire donor for the program then we will flail around until salary caps come into play.
Lol sha doesnt want to talk to anyone, you think hes going to put on an actual suit fly across the country and talk to a billionaire? I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you too
i think it’s time for all to move on from the hope of Kurtz helping out. For all we know he could’ve had some bad run ins with basketball players in his time on campus and would never support SHU basketball for that reason. Does anyone really think a talk with Sha and he’s going to say damn let me throw a few million annually in that direction?
I mean people grow up and mature more and enjoy seeing their Alma Maters name plastered on national TV though , guy lives in California and a successful SHU basketball teams name gets it PR all over the USA so people like to hear "Hey George saw your school play Saturday they look great" the little things ... The better your sports the more your degrees profile gets raised
He is worth 7B i dont think he gives a rats ass, I know its hard to comprehend at your level but it is the reality
Exactly. Same line of thinking as people who presume that Holloway, even if he desired to, could just fly out to see him and "build a relationship". Kurtz exists in a different stratosphere, and basketball isn't on his radar nor does he want it to be.
It's disappointing a fellow Pirate doesn't want to donate what to him is the equivalent of pennies to make this program nationally relevant, but that's his choice and we evidently have nothing and no one to compel him to change his mind.
How could it not be a good investment to fly out there for two days, introduce/re-introduce himself, say hello, and fly back. You have to recruit him like you'd recruit a player.
I’ll be there, although I doubt I’ll have a chance to get close to him. If I do, I’ll say something - we graduated around same time, both accounting majors, I’m 90% certain I had at least a class with him so it could be an ice breaker.
The irony is that there is general consensus that college basketball now is a complete cesspool and is out of control. But we think a smart and successful guy like Kurtz needs to help the program by contributing to it. It’s widely known he contributes to the school in other academic areas. Maybe he thinks that’s in the best interest of the university sustaining itself. Maybe he actually thinks we should drop down to a lesser league.
With respect to your last sentence, I would wager he has never given thought to that or cared one way or the other lol
Everybody has an EGO though, worth 7B or not, humans love to see their Alma Maters on top its just our nature
lol…true. I guess if he doesn’t give a rats ass he doesn’t care what league we play
And if that's what he's thinking and doing then I agree with him.
Humble suggestion offered with all due respect: forget the Kurtz thing. He donates to his alma mater but clearly could give two s****s about the basketball program.
Donating to an athletic program with student athletes is one thing. Donating to rotating G leaguers who represent themselves (ok agents) and not the institution they hope to earn a degree from is another story.
I’m still donating to academics. Sports get NIL from me after 50+ years. 🤮
Those last place finishes and infrequent NCAA knockouts are not what encourages alums to donate. 😂
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It doesn't hurt to have Sha try. If we have other billionaire alums reach out to them too because it appears the settlement money isn't going to move the needle for us. Clearly selling hats and jerseys isn't doing it either. I don't want to see the school move down a league. Hazard Zet Forward!
Would love to see the TMZ footage of Sha calling the security guards “jerkoffs” when he tries to get close to Kurtz.
Who really knows? He was there from 88-92, some of the best years in modern history for MBB. If he didn't care then (and I don't know that), he probably doesn't, now. Hard not to get swept up, though; I watched almost zero NCAAB until the 88-89 tourney.
For what it's worth, there is a local multi-millionaire that my kids go to school with who made it big in IT, and is probably only 40, if that. SHU has been courting him, hard, and are trying to recruit him for one of the Boards. How much is sports-related, I do not know, but he has been speaking to me about their efforts.
Question: are there rules around what the players can wear during warm ups? Meaning, can they wear warm ups branded by sponsors, ie Crowdstrike? are things like that regulated in college?
Short of renaming the team the "Crowd Strikers" or the school to "CrowdStrike U", I don't see how that is going to move the needle for him or his company.
What exactly would he be donating to with regard to basketball program? Just hand money to Holloway? Maybe he doesn’t care, maybe he doesn’t think it’s run well, who knows.
People donate to things they believe in, see is handled well.
People donate to things they believe in, see is handled well.
Agreed!
Call me crazy here, but perhaps this "wealthy business man" doesn't think it's "good business" to hand over millions of dollars to teenagers who, quite frankly, do very little to earn that level of compensation.
Short of maybe 25-50 players in the country (and that's being generous IMO), pretty much every other "student athlete" couldn't draw flies at a pig farm and yet wealthy, intelligent individuals are being looked upon to fund their retirements already.
Unless you are a hardcore fan like Repole, who is literally spending money to collecting players like trading cards for personal enjoyment, I don't blame a HNW individual from opting out of participation in the arguably one of the largest legal grifts in history.
Name the new practice facility after George. The Kurtz ______________ or Crowdstrike ______________.
Couldn't have said it better myself. The bold I added is spot on.
that's odd, it appears you fully agree with our coach , sha, who you hate so much.
funny
Only we’re not G-League prep. We’re a feeder to P4 programs although this past year we’re filling the rosters of mid-majors.
I asked for George at the CrowdStrike booth, but no dice (not that I expected anything to happen, but I gave it the old college try). He's been in the news, he's given away over $1B in stock as gifts to undisclosed recipients:
"CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has ceded much of his voting power in the cybersecurity company he founded by gifting more than $1 billion of its stock to undisclosed recipients."
FWIW
"CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has ceded much of his voting power in the cybersecurity company he founded by gifting more than $1 billion of its stock to undisclosed recipients."
FWIW
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