UTSA gets big NIL donation

[Coach Andy Mac]

 

[DentonStang]

UTSA is going to be a problem in the next 5 years

[Pseudo Nym]

Fear not, the Light The Tower Collective is on the way with innovate approaches to fundraising, like attending Garth Brooks Concerts and soliciting backers from the concert floor!

Next concert, I'm sure they'll bring the big check to do the photo op with since UTSA wants to be flashy like that, making $100k+ announcements..... pffff, honestly 🙄! 

Not really how our collective likes to roll..... That GB Fundraising Concert was two months ago, but we're more discrete with the announcements, no need to be flashy like that..... Nope, not on RV's watch don't ya know....  We'll have none of that flash, pomp and circumstance, thank you very much!

You can follow all of the updates here: https://twitter.com/LightthetowerMG

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*Sarcasm has been sprinkled into this post.

[Udomann]

How many KFC buckets can that buy?

[Quoner]

  On 10/3/2022 at 10:42 PM, Pseudo Nym said:

Fear not, the Light The Tower Collective is on the way with innovate approaches to fundraising, like attending Garth Brooks Concerts and soliciting backers from the concert floor!

Next concert, I'm sure they'll bring the big check to do the photo op with since UTSA wants to be flashy like that, making $100k+ announcements..... pffff, honestly 🙄! 

Not really how our collective likes to roll..... That GB Fundraising Concert was two months ago, but we're more discrete with the announcements, no need to be flashy like that..... Nope, not on RV's watch don't ya know....  We'll have none of that flash, pomp and circumstance, thank you very much!

You can follow all of the updates here: https://twitter.com/LightthetowerMG

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*Sarcasm has been sprinkled into this post.

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Lol. Joke’s on you. It’s a PAC.

 

Edited October 4, 2022 by Quoner

[Pseudo Nym]

  On 10/4/2022 at 12:29 AM, Quoner said:

Lol. Joke’s on you. It’s a PAC.

 

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🤣🤣🤣🤣

LMAO.... Indeed.... Low (loathe) and behold the artistry of RV in creating the first "NIL Collective PAC"

Whatever will UNT endorse his association with next?

[ntmeangreen11]

  On 10/4/2022 at 12:29 AM, Quoner said:

Lol. Joke’s on you. It’s a PAC.

 

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Seriously? Who's in charge of that account?  Why are they replying to political tweets on it? 

I didn't love the announcement of RV being in charge of NIL, I appreciate that he still cares about UNT and I don't wish any ill will on the guy, but he wasn't some great salesman or fundraiser in his time here. At a time where every move is crucial especially NIL related why do we bring back someone we fired to be a part of it?

[ntmeangreen11]

And again it's mind blowing that whoever's in charge of that account is another American so consumed with politics that they got their panties in a wad over a tweet and couldn't dare take the time to see which account they were logged in to before replying. 

[MeanGreenMan09]

  On 10/4/2022 at 12:46 AM, ntmeangreen11 said:

Seriously? Who's in charge of that account?  Why are they replying to political tweets on it? 

I didn't love the announcement of RV being in charge of NIL, I appreciate that he still cares about UNT and I don't wish any ill will on the guy, but he wasn't some great salesman or fundraiser in his time here. At a time where every move is crucial especially NIL related why do we bring back someone we fired to be a part of it?

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Completely agree...wtf is the person in charge of that account doing?? How hard is it to keep that account about football? That's embarrassing... I won't be giving any money to that PAC BS...

[Pseudo Nym]

  On 10/4/2022 at 12:46 AM, ntmeangreen11 said:

Who's in charge of that account?

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  On 10/4/2022 at 12:51 AM, MeanGreenMan09 said:

wtf is the person in charge of that account doing??

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  On 10/4/2022 at 12:50 AM, ntmeangreen11 said:

whoever's in charge of that account

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Signs point to a "Rick V."?

 

[letsgiveacheer]

Does anyone else besides me have difficulty with RV's sentax?

[All About UNT]

  On 10/4/2022 at 1:04 AM, letsgiveacheer said:

Does anyone else besides me have difficulty with RV's sentax?

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Right there with you I had to reread it multiple times. Also I didn't know he was this effing stupid to post that shit on Twitter through our NIL account

[ntmeangreen11]

  On 10/4/2022 at 1:02 AM, Pseudo Nym said:

 

 

Signs point to a "Rick V."?

 

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[untjim1995]

  On 10/3/2022 at 10:17 PM, DentonStang said:

UTSA is going to be a problem in the next 5 years

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For yall

[golfingomez]

  On 10/3/2022 at 7:31 PM, Coach Andy Mac said:

 

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back to the issue at hand... this is a weirdly sized check... they didn't really commit to the "big check" bit

[El Paso Eagle]

There is a lot of money in San Antonio. If they can get some of it backing UTSA, and not UT or A&M, they could be in good shape.

[untjim1995]

  On 10/4/2022 at 3:05 PM, El Paso Eagle said:

There is a lot of money in San Antonio. If they can get some of it backing UTSA, and not UT or A&M, they could be in good shape.

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They will be the next UH if they keep it going. 

[meangreenfaninno]

  On 10/4/2022 at 1:02 AM, Pseudo Nym said:

 

 

Signs point to a "Rick V."?

 

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He or whoever runs the account made a mistake, clearly.  That said, it is a new collective and probably not a lot of admin support etc. so let's not go overboard.  I just don't see it as a hanging offense.

 

[Pseudo Nym]

  On 10/4/2022 at 3:30 PM, meangreenfaninno said:

He or whoever runs the account made a mistake, clearly.  That said, it is a new collective and probably not a lot of admin support etc. so let's not go overboard.  I just don't see it as a hanging offense.

 

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If that was an official UNT team or department account, and someone wrote that (the politics and going after people) they would be fired.  Absolutely be fired, there would be no discussion.

That's what the consequences would be and ironically RV, with his previous experience as an AD and athletics administrator knows this.

Also, the idea that admin support would be required to avoid mistakes like this is uninformed.  We're no longer in the first decade of social media, there was no "hacking" or "mistaking for a personal account" this was/is piss-poor management and judgement.

 

[Green Otaku]

Those tweets.....

 

 

[MeanGreenTexan]

  On 10/4/2022 at 12:29 AM, Quoner said:

Lol. Joke’s on you. It’s a PAC.

 

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Oh wow.   How cringe is this?   Hopefully someone steps in.

[MGNation92]

It was probably Rick V's burner/personal twitter account, that out of sheer laziness/ignorance, he decided to change the name to the Light the Tower Collective instead of creating a brand new account all together.

[greenminer]

  On 10/4/2022 at 4:50 PM, MGNation92 said:

It was probably Rick V's burner/personal twitter account, that out of sheer laziness/ignorance, he decided to change the name to the Light the Tower Collective instead of creating a brand new account all together.

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If so, he deleted old tweets.  It appears all content - even this personal exchange - was done under the Collective name.

[MeanGreenTexan]

  On 10/4/2022 at 3:30 PM, meangreenfaninno said:

He or whoever runs the account made a mistake, clearly.  That said, it is a new collective and probably not a lot of admin support etc. so let's not go overboard.  I just don't see it as a hanging offense.

 

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But, is it indicative of the level of attention that should be paid to it?   If we're going to be as serious about NIL as we have been with Apogee, IPF, coaches salaries, etc..., we need to be very selective on what information goes out.   And it certainly can't be stupid stuff like that.   That's the kind of small-time, clown show stuff that got him dismissed by Smatresk a long time ago.

[MeanGreenMan09]

Seriously, whoever thought it was a good idea to bring Rick back in and put him in charge of something important, like the NIL, should probably also be let go. Let's clean house until we get the results we want. UNT athletics shouldn't be the Rick Villareal retirement fund so he can go watch Garth Brooks for free, and act like he was raising money for our student athletes, gtfoh with that... would love to see if we achieved anything with that night out on the funds checkbook.