Hope For Pahokee Kickstarter (Odoms - #eating)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1021358459/hope-eating-from-garden-…
Odoms has started a kickstarter to try and get money for a garden in Pahokee Florida. They've gone well beyond just the #EATING shirts and have all sorts of new stuff that you can get for donating. There's a video in it of Odoms himself talking about the project. I tried to embed but the code isn't working.
It must have just started today because they have $0 donated. But if you wish to donate some money and get a T-shirt, or laser tag with Odoms?, then you can donate some money. They have a pretty big goal of $35,000. Just thought I'd share since it's a project for a former, and loved, Michigan player.
September 6th, 2012 at 11:04 AM ^
Tshimanga Biarugulatuka?
September 6th, 2012 at 11:17 AM ^
September 6th, 2012 at 10:16 AM ^
I really would like an autographed postcard but went with the two shirts option.
September 12th, 2012 at 11:47 AM ^
Email us and remind us and we will do our best.
Thank you for your support.
September 13th, 2012 at 12:14 AM ^
September 6th, 2012 at 10:21 AM ^
I want that rising sun hoodie.
September 6th, 2012 at 10:36 AM ^
Over $5,500 now. MGoBlog delivers!
September 6th, 2012 at 11:23 AM ^
September 6th, 2012 at 1:13 PM ^
They also need a Briyam Cook and a Kale Upton.
September 6th, 2012 at 11:50 AM ^
... that hoodie is just too awesome.
September 6th, 2012 at 11:55 AM ^
Great so far, but seems like we could do better...
September 6th, 2012 at 12:05 PM ^
Although I'm sure MGoBlog could probably fund this thing on our own, I hope the big hitters of Michigan football are made aware of this. Odoms didn't play with too many NFLers, but there are a lot of M guys in the league with a lot of school spirit. This link should be forwarded to Woodley, Harris, Braylon, Henne, Long and that crew. Obviously each of them could drop 35k without blinking, but even if they each gave a thousand or two, it would get to the goal in a hurry.
Also - what about the UM administration and coaching staff? Hoke, Mattison and Borges could give a good chunk no problem, and it wouldn't hurt future recruiting in Pahokee either. Same with DB, hello. If Bama can give money to Dr. Phillips high school, then Michigan can give money to help rebuild Pahokee.
This gives me another idea. Name the Plant/garden plot - contact Al Golden, Will Muschamp, Jimbo Fisher, Mark Richt, and anyone else who recruits south Florida, and have them name a plot "Hurricane Football" or "University of Florida" to show the community they're supporting them. Talk about recruiting money well spent. As much as I'd like this to be a Michigan thing, I'd much rather it be a wildly successful thing.
September 6th, 2012 at 1:03 PM ^
But I love this idea. Does anyone know how to get in contact with Dave Brandon? I'm sure if enough of us send emails it would become hard to ignore.
September 6th, 2012 at 1:38 PM ^
That got me thinking, as a general point:
I'd hope that the heavy hitters would just mail a check directly. Kickstarter takes a cut of the action. So its good for donating in reasonable amounts and aggregating smaller donations, but if you want to drop a large check on Odoms, mail that sucker directly so Kickstarter doesn't skim off the top. Just a general thought in case anyone is reaching for the big boy checkbook.
September 6th, 2012 at 2:12 PM ^
September 6th, 2012 at 2:03 PM ^
To the people I know in the department. Hopefully it gets spread around.
September 6th, 2012 at 4:23 PM ^
Do you think if it was successfully funded, DB would bring the band there to celebrate?
September 6th, 2012 at 12:35 PM ^
That Michigan Rising Hoodie looks amazingly like the Imperial Japan Rising Sun. I must have one to wear around my Korean inlaws.
September 6th, 2012 at 1:13 PM ^
Can't wait to hear the reaction over this one...
September 6th, 2012 at 2:59 PM ^
Just pledged $100. Come on, fellow Wolverines--step the heck up!!!
September 6th, 2012 at 3:25 PM ^
189 backers so far.
September 6th, 2012 at 4:02 PM ^
This should be on the frontpage by now :-/
September 6th, 2012 at 5:33 PM ^
I've been following the blog for awhile now. Haven't felt that I had a good enough reason to post until now. A Michigan Man with a good cause got me off the sidelines. Cool hoody too (rising Michigan).
September 6th, 2012 at 6:22 PM ^
September 6th, 2012 at 6:51 PM ^
September 6th, 2012 at 7:05 PM ^
September 6th, 2012 at 7:12 PM ^
That's what I did. I may buy a shirt later though.
September 6th, 2012 at 7:06 PM ^
OK - this has been up for 24 hours now, and they're 22% of the way to their goal. We need to step it up. Email the kickstarter link to all of the Michigan fans or people with a giving heart that you know. There are thousads of readers of this blog alone, and only 200 backers so far (some of whom, presumable, are unaffiliated with the blog).
Let's go people!
September 6th, 2012 at 7:17 PM ^
People should like Hope For Pahokee on Facebook. That can help spread the word.
September 6th, 2012 at 9:14 PM ^
I'm giving this thread a bump so it doesn't disappear from page one of the message board. I linked this on the Maize and Brew board as well. Raising $8K in one day is pretty impressive, but I hope it doesn't lose momentum.
September 7th, 2012 at 3:53 AM ^
I would look into tweeting shane this. I dont know much about the former player/connecting with recruit on twitter, i know ncaa has stupid rules on that.
September 7th, 2012 at 9:23 AM ^
This was posted last night on the Kickstarter page:
If you want more than one reward, email us through kickstarter that you want a combination of items and list which items you want and update your previous pledge to the new total.EDIT: Currently at $8351. Come on, folks, there is no reason this shouldn't get funded by the end of the weekend! Do they still do scoreboard messages at football games? That would be the perfect opportunity.
September 7th, 2012 at 1:28 PM ^
If that would be considered advertising...
September 7th, 2012 at 12:45 PM ^
September 7th, 2012 at 12:57 PM ^
If Brian could make a brief front-page post about it (probably next week, since the AFA game is coming up), that could help a lot. Some readers don't visit the message board.
September 7th, 2012 at 3:53 PM ^
I saw in the blog portion of the Hope for Pahokee website that someone from this blog contacted Tae about, I am assuming, using the mgoblogstore.
Tae turned it down though, but hopefully Brian will still post something about it on the main page to help.
September 12th, 2012 at 11:53 AM ^
We wanted to let you know that we are working on a solution that is fair becuase we did not want to say yes to just one person and no to other people. We want to work together to do a technology project if mgoblogstore want to work with us to give technology skills to the kids in Pahokee.
September 7th, 2012 at 11:37 PM ^
Only $55 more pledged since this morning.
September 8th, 2012 at 1:15 PM ^
Bump. Just donated.
September 11th, 2012 at 4:10 PM ^
I would like to say that I'm do proud to be a graduate of the university of Michigan. I would like to take this time to thank all of the fans for the amazing support you have given me over the past four years. I also would like to thank everyone for the continued support shown off the field for hope for pahokee and #eating. It has not been all about giving money but all of the time and support has meant more to me then any of you understand. Again I cannot thank you all enough.
Martavious Odoms, Tae Odoms,Tae or odoms whatever you may call me thanks.
I miss my #9 jersey and having on my wing helmet already.
September 11th, 2012 at 4:10 PM ^
I would like to say that I'm do proud to be a graduate of the university of Michigan. I would like to take this time to thank all of the fans for the amazing support you have given me over the past four years. I also would like to thank everyone for the continued support shown off the field for hope for pahokee and #eating. It has not been all about giving money but all of the time and support has meant more to me then any of you understand. Again I cannot thank you all enough.
Martavious Odoms, Tae Odoms,Tae or odoms whatever you may call me thanks.
I miss my #9 jersey and having on my wing helmet already.
September 12th, 2012 at 6:59 PM ^
September 12th, 2012 at 8:25 PM ^
September 12th, 2012 at 6:48 PM ^
What you gave us on and off the field is more than we can ever pay you and the rest of the team back. Go Blue forever, Martavious!
Also, /donated.