Guys, let me first start by saying that I have no affiliation with the Rams Club beyond my annual donations (meaning I'm not like an employee of the Rams Club). With that being said, on behalf of the RC and of UNC athletics, I'd like to make a plea to all of y'all on here....
Please join the Rams Club if you're not already in it.
Guys, we all love Carolina athletics. It's what brought us all to this site in the first place. It's what we spend our weekends watching (and weekdays). We've grown up on it. Etc. etc. All the poetic things you want to insert here about our love for UNC and its athletics. I know that sometimes we like to think (and Wolfies like to think) that Carolina and the Rams Club is loaded, but y'all......the Rams Club is hurting for members and donations. To be completely honest, the UNC alumni participation in the Rams Club is beyond pathetic; BEYOND pathetic. I think I read somewhere that there's 300,000 or so living UNC alumni. That number I'm not 100% sure on, but this number I do know. As of me writing this, there are only 14,751 active Rams Club members.
Let me repeat that. 14,751 -- out of at ~300,000 living alumni. Guys, that's less than 5%. That's terrible. This is why I am making a personal plea to y'all to join the Rams Club. You don't have to give thousands and thousands a year. Just give what you can. The Rams Club is a great cause. You can go to ramsclub.com for yourself and read, but the RC 100% funds all UNC athletic scholarships so that the University doesn't have to do so. This means that the University can devote that money it would have to spend on athletic scholarships --$16,000,000 for this past academic year -- to any other item they see fit. This is no small sum, and the RC is having trouble footing the bill each year. This morning I received a letter from the RC kindly requesting me to pay my annual donation before June 30th, so they could use it to pay the aforementioned $16,000,000 bill to the University (donations can be made any time between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, they were just kindly requesting I pay early). The Rams Club desperately needs more members, especially in this time of skyrocketing college sports expenses.
I'm not trying to get sentimental really, but y'all already know the joy of watching guys like Marcus Paige and Ryan Switzer tear it up on the playing field. Now imagine how good it will make you feel to watch guys like that and then be able to tell yourself proudly, "My donations paid for part of Paige's scholarship."
That's my plea to y'all on here. We're a tight-knit group so I decided to post this on here and not on Blitz (lack of activity) or Radar (I'd be inundated with excuses why not to donate). At least take the time to consider it, even if you ultimately don't join. That's all I ask.
Go Heels!
Please join the Rams Club if you're not already in it.
Guys, we all love Carolina athletics. It's what brought us all to this site in the first place. It's what we spend our weekends watching (and weekdays). We've grown up on it. Etc. etc. All the poetic things you want to insert here about our love for UNC and its athletics. I know that sometimes we like to think (and Wolfies like to think) that Carolina and the Rams Club is loaded, but y'all......the Rams Club is hurting for members and donations. To be completely honest, the UNC alumni participation in the Rams Club is beyond pathetic; BEYOND pathetic. I think I read somewhere that there's 300,000 or so living UNC alumni. That number I'm not 100% sure on, but this number I do know. As of me writing this, there are only 14,751 active Rams Club members.
Let me repeat that. 14,751 -- out of at ~300,000 living alumni. Guys, that's less than 5%. That's terrible. This is why I am making a personal plea to y'all to join the Rams Club. You don't have to give thousands and thousands a year. Just give what you can. The Rams Club is a great cause. You can go to ramsclub.com for yourself and read, but the RC 100% funds all UNC athletic scholarships so that the University doesn't have to do so. This means that the University can devote that money it would have to spend on athletic scholarships --$16,000,000 for this past academic year -- to any other item they see fit. This is no small sum, and the RC is having trouble footing the bill each year. This morning I received a letter from the RC kindly requesting me to pay my annual donation before June 30th, so they could use it to pay the aforementioned $16,000,000 bill to the University (donations can be made any time between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, they were just kindly requesting I pay early). The Rams Club desperately needs more members, especially in this time of skyrocketing college sports expenses.
I'm not trying to get sentimental really, but y'all already know the joy of watching guys like Marcus Paige and Ryan Switzer tear it up on the playing field. Now imagine how good it will make you feel to watch guys like that and then be able to tell yourself proudly, "My donations paid for part of Paige's scholarship."
That's my plea to y'all on here. We're a tight-knit group so I decided to post this on here and not on Blitz (lack of activity) or Radar (I'd be inundated with excuses why not to donate). At least take the time to consider it, even if you ultimately don't join. That's all I ask.
Go Heels!
