Seminole Booster Info

Seminole Booster info

Jerry Kutz
4/28/2014

"As vice president of Seminole Boosters, I am keenly aware of what we do wrong and what we do right. And yes I do pay attention to this site and others as well as to my email and phone calls. If you would like to take a deeper dive into any of our projects you are welcome to email me (jkutz@fsu.edu or call me on my cell phone 850-508-8690). That's an open invitation to anyone on these boards who wants to know more about the Boosters and these projects as I am happy to discuss any of them with a person in detail, which is hard to accomplish in any other format that an interactive phone call.

The stadium wall will be pressure washed, as it always is, during the summer months and yes, facilities will commemorate the national championship appropriately before the season. And yes, the field is painted when recruits come to town to visit. Jimbo is very detailed about recruit visits and by all accounts very successful in signing them.

Seminole Boosters is currently tackling some major projects. Let me enumerate:
1. The $15 million IPF was completed this past year with money raised by Seminole Boosters.
2. The apartment/dorm for football, funded by Seminole Boosters, will open in August.
3. We have a $6 million locker room/meeting room renovation now underway to be completed by August.
4. We are reviewing cost estimates for stadium repair, maintenance,painting and concourse improvements to Doak that are over $50 million and will require Seminole Boosters to borrow the money necessary to make those improvements. Those improvements generate no money so in order to borrow the money to make them, you must have a revenue source which is the $38 million club seat project. The revenue generated by the club seats can pay for the club seats and the stadium improvements.
5. We continue to work to raise $15 million a year in order to fund competitive coaches salaries and budgets for athletics (almost $10 million for scholarship costs) so that we can compete for national championships and top 5 rankings in our overall sports programs.
6. We also continue to raise money to pay for about $5 million of mortgage payments per year on all the facilities we've built for our sports teams over the past 10 years.
7. We have the  $6 million in seats for the Tucker Center going in this summer and know that there will be more once the needs assessment is complete.

We have a lot on our plate so that's why I want all Seminoles to be inclusive of all other Seminoles. We need every Seminole fan, whether a Booster, season ticket holder, or not, to get involved in whatever way they can in order for us to be competitive with our rivals.

I don't want you to shut up. I want you to speak up and to contribute in any way you can. If you'd like to discuss any of these projects, or find a way to help us with any of them, feel free to give me a call.

We can use your help."