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Post by clowndude on Feb 26, 2016 23:14:30 GMT -6
Does anybody do this for a fundraising idea? I remember they used to do it for every home game at a school I was at around 1998. It always seemed like a big thing too. Each player and coach signed it.
I was thinking about doing the same thing with some GST balls that were a little older. Maybe charge $1 or $2 per ticket.
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Post by shocktroop34 on Feb 27, 2016 9:29:56 GMT -6
We've done that before. We did it by way of a silent auction. We also signed an older jersey as well. That was pretty good too. I would also take a rejected helmet, buff it out, and have the kids sign that as well. The helmet was the biggest seller.
I think raffle or auction work either way.
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Post by gibbs72 on Feb 27, 2016 11:12:24 GMT -6
Maybe a mixture of both. No reason you can't get 2 footballs, 2 helmets, 2 jerseys: raffle off one of each and silent auction the others. The "money guys" will silent auction more likely. If you have a good computer/ graphic arts department, have them create pics of the field, logo, live action in games, etc and put them in big frames or those poster frames from Walmart. Add autographs from the seniors and you have another good raffle/ silent auction item.
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Post by clowndude on Feb 27, 2016 12:20:40 GMT -6
It sounds like you are referring to auctioning at an event, or do you mean do this at a football game? Do you mean do the silent auction at the game? If you do, would you do that over multiple games, or just once?
I have some other fundraisers planned, and I was thinking this might be an added way to get money, but not seem like a burden of asking people to donate. So I thought by doing the signed football, or helmet/framed pictures (I like those ideas) it would be a simple concept.
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Post by gibbs72 on Feb 27, 2016 17:51:53 GMT -6
I've seen it done both ways. I was part of a program that did a dinner and silent auction. The food service department catered the event for a small charge ($10 a plate, I think?). We had a large silent auction then had a couple larger items donated that were done as a normal auction. We did it in April, so it was kind of a reflect on the previous year/ kickoff the next year event.
I could see your having a different item or 2 for each home game that can go through a silent auction. May not make a ton of money, but maybe enough to pay for coaching shirts/ shoes, clinics, $$$ to visit a college staff, etc.
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 27, 2016 22:50:09 GMT -6
We do a large Crabfeed with our music program (school tradition thing, been going on for 25 years)
We have various auction prizes, one of them is a "football pack"
Signed helmet, ball, shirts and shorts
Just some general memorabilia ... Usually goes for 4-500 bucks
This year we also auctioned off a pack of our RB's stuff. His jersey, cleats, and a ball all signed by him ... It went for 1700 bucks
Good deal because his jersey was ripped and we had to re order a new one anyway, the ball was flat/dead, and he runs through cleats every few weeks anyway
So all of the stuff was pretty much useless to the football team and our back in the future
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Post by coachwoodall on Feb 28, 2016 8:33:46 GMT -6
We do a large Crabfeed with our music program (school tradition thing, been going on for 25 years) We have various auction prizes, one of them is a "football pack" Signed helmet, ball, shirts and shorts Just some general memorabilia ... Usually goes for 4-500 bucks This year we also auctioned off a pack of our RB's stuff. His jersey, cleats, and a ball all signed by him ... It went for 1700 bucks Good deal because his jersey was ripped and we had to re order a new one anyway, the ball was flat/dead, and he runs through cleats every few weeks anyway So all of the stuff was pretty much useless to the football team and our back in the future I used to work at the high school Marcus Lattimore played. We ordered several extra 21s each year to sell off as "authentic jerseys". Made a killing. Funny story, when Marcus was in school our equipment guy (that's all he did) would take Marcus jersey and wear it to the Carolina or Clemson each Saturday he'd go to. He was quite the popular fellow. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2016 13:02:33 GMT -6
We did it at a place I was at a few years ago with a ball autographed by Peyton Manning. We sold tickets for $1 each in the stands at every home game and announced the winner at halftime of Senior Night. We made a couple thousand off it. It turned out that it was technically illegal in our state, though.
Never thought of doing that with an old ball signed by the team, but I like the idea.
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 28, 2016 13:22:13 GMT -6
We did it at a place I was at a few years ago with a ball autographed by Peyton Manning. We sold tickets for $1 each in the stands at every home game and announced the winner at halftime of Senior Night. We made a couple thousand off it. It turned out that it was technically illegal in our state, though. Never thought of doing that with an old ball signed by the team, but I like the idea. it is something we do every year as one of our auction prizes at our crabfeed like i mentioned above it is basically a "football team memorabilia basket" this year's went for higher than usual, first league title in a long long long time so it was worth more to the old people bidding it is always made of stuff we don't want or cant use again we get a ton of footballs (former game balls) who just run out of life and the bladders wont hold air anymore... so we pump them up, sign them, pump it up before the auction and it looks nice we sign rejected helmets we couldnt wear again anyway give away jerseys we have doubles of (equipment company screwed up gave us multiples of a couple jerseys) and ripped jerseys are great too since we re order those numbers |
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Post by pistolwhipped on Mar 1, 2016 9:15:58 GMT -6
We do a large Crabfeed with our music program (school tradition thing, been going on for 25 years) We have various auction prizes, one of them is a "football pack" Signed helmet, ball, shirts and shorts Just some general memorabilia ... Usually goes for 4-500 bucks This year we also auctioned off a pack of our RB's stuff. His jersey, cleats, and a ball all signed by him ... It went for 1700 bucks Good deal because his jersey was ripped and we had to re order a new one anyway, the ball was flat/dead, and he runs through cleats every few weeks anyway So all of the stuff was pretty much useless to the football team and our back in the future I used to work at the high school Marcus Lattimore played. We ordered several extra 21s each year to sell off as "authentic jerseys". Made a killing. Funny story, when Marcus was in school our equipment guy (that's all he did) would take Marcus jersey and wear it to the Carolina or Clemson each Saturday he'd go to. He was quite the popular fellow.  |
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