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Recruiting Presentation. Presented By: Cole Campbell Fightin’ Texas Aggie Class of 2007. The University. Stephen F. Austin State University men's athletic teams have been officially known as Lumberjacks since the institution opened in 1923.
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Recruiting Presentation Presented By: Cole Campbell Fightin’ Texas Aggie Class of 2007
The University • Stephen F. Austin State University men's athletic teams have been officially known as Lumberjacks since the institution opened in 1923. • Recently there have been a lot of changes around the campus of SFASU. Within the past year the university has spent over $180 million on a new student recreation center, student union, and new student housing. • Since the renovations, SFA enrollment has increased dramatically, and the University is expecting to reach an all time high in the next few years to come. • SFASU has upgraded the athletic facilities as well. • Within the past two years, the athletic department has installed $1.5 million in new video boards for both basketball and football, new scoreboards for baseball and soccer, new fascia for basketball, new scrolling marquee for basketball, new LED scorers table, as well as many other audio and video technical enhancements. • Every year the Lumberjacks are at the top Southland Conference in every sport.
Chief Caddo Each season, SFA and Northwestern State University of Natchitoches, Louisiana play for the country's largest football trophy. Chief Caddo stands 7 feet 6 inches in height and weighs over 320 pounds. The wooden statue is awarded annually to the winner of the Lumberjack-Demon contest. The statue originated in 1960 when longtime rivals SFA and Northwestern State decided to award the winner of the game a trophy. The two institutions settled on a statue of a legendary Indian chief whose tribe was responsible for settling the locations that became English-speaking Nacogdoches and Natchitoches. The loser of the 1961 game would have a tree chopped down from its nearby forests, which would be sent to the winning school, who would have the statue carved. Northwestern State won that 1961 game 35-19, and SFA delivered a 2,000-pound black gum log to Northwestern State. As to common heritage of Nacogdoches and Natchitoches, there is some question about how the cities -- each the oldest settlement in their respective states -- got their names. Both versions agree that an Indian chief with two sons sent one east and the other west, and they traveled the same distance and established villages. As for the folklore in question: One version, as reported by historian Samuel Stewart Mims in "Rios Sabinas", credits the chief of an Adae Indian village on the Sabine River. The village was overpopulated and the chief ordered his two grown sons to report to him precisely at sunrise. He told one son to walk east and the other to walk west until the very moment of sunset. The sons were to establish a village at the place they reached. The son who went west wound up in a grove of persimmon trees, and named his village Nacogdoches, meaning persimmon. The eastbound son reached a grove of papaw trees and named his village Natchitoches, meaning papaw. Another version says that the chief had twin sons, Nacogdoches and Natchitoches, and could not decide who would lead the tribe following his death. The chief split the tribe between them and sent each in different directions. They traveled for three days, one eastbound and one westbound, and wound up where the cities are located today. SFA and Northwestern State have been playing for Chief Caddo since 1961.
Daily Activities • Every Day • Arrive at 10:00 a.m. on Monday - Friday • Help out with preparation for game operations • Put together sponsorship proposals • Work on project • Make contacts for future sponsorships • Work the athletic events of that week • Sale conference tournament tickets • Develop and gather promotional ideas for athletic events • Assist departmental personnel with administrative duties • as needed • Major • Develop and negotiate sponsorship proposal for The • Grove Apartments • Develop and negotiate sponsorship proposal for • Brookshire Brothers • Sale Chair-backs to the new baseball field at $1,200 • each • Present a rewards program that will increase student • attendance at all athletic events
Internship Objectives • Increase student attendance at athletic events through • marketing efforts • Put together marketing plan to raise attendance at the • men’s and women’s basketball games that will be shown • live on FSN. • Revamp the identity of Purple Haze • Plan, organize, and coordinate conference outdoor track • and field championships. • Bring in additional revenue through sponsorships • Negotiate sponsorship deals • Raise money for the new 3.5 million dollar baseball • complex • Sale chair-backs for ballpark
Project Description Stephen F. Austin wanted to make a strong push to increase student attendance at all athletic events. My project was to determine everything that it would take to implement a student rewards program. Once I had determined what it would take to have a successful rewards program, I would then present my plan to the Athletic Department. The department would then have to decide if they wanted to implement the program, and could afford to do so. The name of this program would be JACK TEAM REWARDS. Through my research I was able to determine all cost incurred so there would be no surprises once the program got underway. I also had the challenge of trying to keep cost to a minimum considering I was with an Athletic Department that is under a very tight budget.
