MSU Red Cedar Message Board

Lifetime giving to the University counts as well but only at 1/10 of the rate....so it is pretty useless when it comes to improving your seats or benefits of being a member.

Not correct.

3 points for every consecutive years as a season ticket holder per sport. (I.e. if you've held football, and hockey tickets for the last 5 years you would have 30 points right there)

2 points per consecutive years giving to Spartan Fund

1 point per $100 lifetime gift to athletics

1 point per $1000 lifetime gift to anywhere else at University

1 point per $1000 planned irrevocable gifts lifetime to Athletics.

Lets say my family has a business, and has been buying season football, and basketball tickets for 30 years. My company has give 100 dollars in addition over those 30 years (doesn't even get them a parking pass!) plus we gave a one time gift of 10K to Athletics, a one time gift of 25 K to the college of business and a plan to develop a 25k athletic scholarship fund. That's 500 or so points attached to those tickets right there.

I don't give much, and only have 42 points based on consecutive years of Football tix and my optional date is the 27th.

BTW I figured out I would need to make a one time gift on 8.6 million dollars to become donor number 1 this season.

Either he's:
lying

He's had long time tickets transferred to his name

He's had tickets in other sports

He gave a lot of money to athletics last year

He commites to donate a lot of money last year across the next several years

He's given a lot to the University over the past

His businesses tickets are in his name for the first time and the business racked up points

Combo of the above.

Probably a combo of the above. Like I said, I only have 42 points, mostly from 12 consecutive years as a football season ticket holder and my date is the 27th. The first 7 years of those 12 the account was in my wife's name because she had some extra time with football because she graduated a semester early. We changed it to my name when I became employed by MSU to take advantage of employee rates. I actually have another account I used as a student...but there are 0 points there.

I'm guessing this is his first year, but not te first year of the account. I know someone like that.

Oddly enough there are only about 14,300 Spartan Fund Donors I am ranked @ 8800th.

Unfortunatly, consecutive years of purchase was given no weight at all. All that matters is your donor level for the July 2010 to June 2011 donation year.

I don't understand why our Spartan Fund points weren't used for football seat selection. Really, I don't even understand why they make SF points seems so important. They've only used them for the basketball seat selection two years ago and to break ties in a given donation level. Yet they push these points like they're so important. Everything should be based on points (fb parking, away game tickets, bowl tickets, seating improvements, NCAA tournament tickets).

In the end it's fine if they don't want to use the points but why do they spend so much time calculating and talking about them?

You can look it all up on the Spartan fund web site...

Where are you seeing that ranking???

My "Go" Green account tells me this (I guess I need to step up my points accumulation) -
Donor Rank: 0 of 8,491

They matter, but not for this. The priority has always been scholarship level and then points within that level. Basketball is a little more convoluted since they wanted to figure in longevity so they don't piss off all the blue hairs who have had season tickets since Gus Ganakas was coaching.

Long time basketball season ticket holder and donor every year to the Spartan Fund

Where does it say that. Can you log into the Spartan Fund account? If so, it will break down your points.

And no, all donations and activities after 7/1 don't count towards your appointment.

But the $50 donation I made two weeks ago (to the Spartan Fund) is counted.

I'm going to call the AD tomorrow to figure this out.

I think the issue with the earlier times are all the big donors have gone, which more then likely already have their 50 yard line tickets and don't want to change. I suspect at some point the breaking point will hit where people will want to move if they can.

I too hope it holds off.....

Another question do ALL tunnels have stairs on both sides going up? I thought they did but its hard to tell on the 3d seating chart.....kinda looks like it doesnt.

When I log in it shows pretty much everything green except the student section/first few rows. Can anyone else see the current status if you aren't able to select yet?