TYLER WHITCOMB – GIVE WITH HOOPS: TURNING BASKETBALL ANALYTICS INTO FUNDRAISING IMPACT – EPISODE 1193

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Tyler Whitcomb joins us to discuss Give with Hoops, a groundbreaking initiative that fuses basketball analytics with modern sponsorship. Built for teams who see data as opportunity from AAU programs and high school programs to college powerhouses.

By tying on-court performance directly to community and sponsor engagement, Give With Hoops helps programs raise more while deepening support from those who believe in the game.

During his career Tyler has been a professional basketball team owner, athletic director, college coach, and now a KuyperWorks Specialist and Adjunct Professor of Sports Management at Kuyper College.  He has also produced best-selling basketball playbooks and videos with Championship Productions.

On this episode Mike & Tyler discuss Give with Hoops, a revolutionary initiative designed to enhance fundraising for basketball programs by seamlessly integrating on-court performance with community sponsorship. This innovative platform employs advanced analytics to facilitate financial support from local businesses, thereby enabling teams—from youth leagues to collegiate institutions—to raise funds in a manner that is both efficient and engaging. The platform’s user-friendly interface, developed by former NASA engineers, allows coaches and players to track statistics and directly link them to sponsorship contributions, thus fostering a deeper connection between teams and their supporters. Throughout our discussion, we explore the multifaceted advantages of this approach, including the potential for ongoing community engagement and the ease with which teams can mobilize resources. We invite listeners to consider the transformative impact of Give with Hoops on their fundraising efforts, emphasizing the accessibility and simplicity that this groundbreaking tool offers to the basketball community.

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Learn about an innovative new way to fundraise for your basketball program as you listen to this episode with Tyler Whitcomb from Give With Hoops.

What We Discuss with Tyler Whitcomb

• How the platform Give with Hoops is designed specifically for basketball fundraising, enabling teams to leverage performance metrics for sponsorship
• Integrating basketball analytics with community engagement to enhance fundraising efforts
• Why coaches play a pivotal role in utilizing Give with Hoops, as they manage outreach to sponsors and implement the fundraising strategies
• Real-time tracking of performance metrics during games, thus fostering community involvement and sponsorship appreciation
• Give with Hoops aims to simplify the fundraising process by utilizing easy-to-use technology that connects teams with local businesses
• The importance of maintaining ongoing relationships between teams and sponsors, providing transparency and mutual benefits
• Give with Hoops leverages technology developed by former NASA engineers, enhancing its functionality and user experience.
• Incorporating analytics into fundraising efforts presents a unique opportunity for coaches to tap into business sponsorships, shifting away from traditional methods that often exhaust family resources

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TRANSCRIPT FOR TYLER WHITCOMB – GIVE WITH HOOPS: TURNING BASKETBALL ANALYTICS INTO FUNDRAISING IMPACT – EPISODE 1193

[00:00:00] Narrator: The Hoop Heads Podcast is brought to you by Head Start Basketball.

[00:00:20] Tyler Whitcomb: What is Give with Hoops? It’s for schools, coaches, booster clubs, colleges, districts. We want to make it accessible and easy to use for everyone that’s involved, designed by coaches, built by former NASA engineers. Back end of this is incredible. During the game, you’ll have a platform that is showing your team site with all the sponsors, and then also it’ll have a running scoreboard of how much money you raising and how many shots you’ve hit.

[00:00:49] Mike Klinzing: Tyler Whitcomb is the founder of Give With Hoops, a groundbreaking initiative that fuses basketball analytics with modern sponsorship. Built for teams who see data as opportunity from AAU and high school programs to college powerhouses. By tying on-court performance directly to community and sponsor engagement give with hoops helps programs raise more while deepening support from those who believe in the game.

During his career, Tyler has been a professional basketball team owner, athletic director, college coach, and now a Kuyper work specialist and adjunct professor of sports management at Kuyper College. He has also produced bestselling basketball playbooks and videos with championship productions.

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Learn about an innovative new way to fundraise for your basketball program as you listen to this episode with Tyler Whittcomb, founder of Give With Hoops. Hello and welcome to the Hoop Heads podcast. It’s Mike Klinzing here tonight with. My cohost Jason Sunk, but I am pleased to be joined for, I believe the third time Tyler Whittcomb and he’s back now with Give With Hoops.

So Tyler, we’re going to allow you to go ahead and just explain what Give With Hoops is for all of our coaches out there. I know that one of the things that people are always struggling with, right, is fundraising and trying to find money for their program to give things for. Players to make their program better.

And what you’ve put together here with Give with hoops is something that I think all the coaches out there in our audience are going to want to find out about. So I’m going to turn it over to you, let you share your screen. And give all of our coaches in the audience a chance to see what give with hoops is all about.

So Tyler, welcome.

[00:03:47] Tyler Whitcomb: Sounds great. Thanks so much, Mike. I love jumping on hoop Heads podcast love listening to your podcast. So thanks again for having me on and look forward to sharing give with hoops. I’m going to quick share my screen with you. It’s the thing that I’m, I love about this is it’s a sponsorship.

Feature that’s built for basketball, we want to dive right into the basketball community. This is built for basketball only to start. I mean, we might venture off into other sports, but the thing I love about it, it’s technology meets basketball coaching expertise. It’s built by two NASA engineers and then myself.

I was kind of the inspiration behind it just with my basketball background and my love for the game of basketball and a little bit of time that I had in sponsorships and setting up fundraisers and doing all the little things that you can. And I think in order to have a good fundraiser, you start.

Your budget, what you have money for, what you don’t, what you want to get. And then it’s it’s important putting together a plan with your team and create expectations. And then you jump into a fundraiser that can deliver those and. This is unique in the sense that you’re not going after your mom, pa, or grandpa or because I think online fundraising’s beautiful.

Like I loved it. I made a lot of money for my, for my teams being an athletic director and a basketball coach. But this is a little bit unique and a little different to where. You’re tying in your stats and then you’re going after sponsors. So kids will have and coaches will have the opportunity to have all the, the sales materials that they need, all the information.

In order to just send a link out to a company it can be a company in the area a company that has sponsored in the past a company that your mom and Pom might know. And it’s just, we’re trying to make it really easy to where you just send a link this is what we have going, and then you tie it into your basketball team.

So if you’re known for hitting three pointers or getting slam dunks or getting steals, you come up with. The stat that you want to track and then turn into a pledge based on that metric. So we’ll just keep it really simple to start.  we’ll, we’ll dive into what a, a three pointer and that’ll be kind of what we’ll we’ll run with, you know.

I mean, the other day I was at a a G League game and every time someone hit a three, they threw t-shirts into the crowd. This is something similar and the fact that you can track a stat and then every time that stat takes place from your team money pours in. I love that it’s only a five minute setup.

It’s as easy as you jump on the website, do sign up, put in your information On the onboarding, we ask the, the coach for, you know all the information. We build them a, a webpage that fans and whatnot can go to. But then also in the onboarding, onboarding we put.  how many fans are expected to go to the game based on last year or games, how much how much viewership and audience you have through your social media and website.

And we’re able to put that information together. So then when sponsors decide to jump on there, they can pick what makes the most sense for them, what package, and we’ll jump into the packages in a minute. Then you play the games and it’s, it’s live tracking during the games. And you, if you have a video board, you can hook it up to the video board and it’ll show every time the stat takes place.

So you, you hit the button and it’ll show how much money you’ve raised. So you can see where the community will jump in. They’ll be, they’ll want to be a part of it. Sponsors want to be a part of it. And then after the game, I mean, think about it, you can, you can blast your sponsors on your social media, on your website, talk about what the money did.

You can even partner up with we talked to one school already and they’re talking about working with cancer awareness to where also every dollar. So every time there’s a dollar that’s raised or every shot, you can also do where a dollar will go towards the cancer awareness. So, I mean, we can be real unique on how we put this together.

That’s got automated updates, season dashboard, easy sharing. Just to make it really easy. Again, it’s real time visual exportable sponsor insights, trend analysis, performance, ANA analytics, sorry, and campaign comparison. There’s different ways you can, you can collect the money, but the pricing just so it makes it really simple.

And so you have a really good understanding, understanding that. Simple pricing, powerful results. Sponsors pay a flat fee when pledging support. And that’s how we make our money. I just want to be transparent. And then the teams make the money based on their performance out on the court. In the mechanics of sales, you create a package sponsors purchase, then school receives real pledges.

We started off with a bronze sponsor where it’s it’s a hundred dollars plus a hundred dollars or $1 per three point made. Again, I’m just using the three pointers. I really, I had a Dina Oliver jump on and demo and he said you can really get in the weeds of analytics, but you really don’t need to.

It can just be something for fans where it can just be three pointers or it could be slam dunks and three pointers that that really excites the fans. Or you can really jump into like I used to coach girls basketball. We created a lot of turnovers. So my whole mission that year, my whole slogan was suffocate, launch and hit.

We wanted to suffocate you create turnovers, launch threes either hit the glass or hit the shot. So we had made t-shirts around that and I mean, you could really play around with it and create stats six oh runs and every time you get it, money gets donated or you can do milestones. You could really use your imagination, but also it’s as easy as using just three pointers.

But  each, each sponsor has their different benefits. Like if you’re looking, the bronze has logo on team website that we create for you. Social media, shout out to newsletter mentions, silver sponsors. You get all that. Plus season two season tickets, banner at home game gold sponsor.

You see? Get a little, get a little bit more. Logo on uniforms would be mainly for aau. But you can, if you’re doing a, a high score college, you could, you could possibly do it on your warmup shirts or like you just put on a, a warmup for that game whatever, whatever you decide to work out the sponsor, highlight night.

Seating banquet recognition, but you can see that you can make a little bit more, and then you have a community title sponsor where you get quite a bit more you can even talk about even doing core details and whatnot. But again, this stuff’s pretty flexible the first year, just because we’re just getting going.

We’re, we’re launching on Monday officially launching. And I don’t think you you could jump in and do the season, but when I was talking to an athletic director in our area at a, at a Division II College, he said, why not do a rivalry game the first year? Kind of see how it goes.  you’d have to increase the amount of pledges because $1 probably wouldn’t make sense.

If it’s just for one game, you wouldn’t be able to attract a  enough money for it to make sense for a fundraiser. So you just increase that a little bit. Maybe it’s 10 bucks per three. For silver, or I mean for a bronze silver’s, 15 Gold’s 2025.  we’ll play around with the prices to make it work, but be ready for the official pricing when we launch on Monday.

Other campaign ideas, again, the three point challenge. You can also make it a challenge instead of just for that game. You can do it, adopt the player. You can do a playoff push. But I think to start off the first year while we get it is I think or I don’t think we’ll have information on how to pick the perfect game.

I mean, you probably want to do it on a weekend game, like a Friday night. Pick your rivalry a game that did very well. Someone that’s pretty close so you can get a big crowd. And then pick that game. You give yourself three weeks to really get your sponsors up and go all out. Treat it like a professional game.

I mean, do your halftime entertainment. I mean, really get everyone involved for that game. And I’m telling you, you will have a big fundraiser. I mean, it’s, it’s free to get started. It’s really really easy. All the information’s on give with hoops com.  we’ll be partnering with coaches.

We, we really want to launch this to coaches so they can help other coaches fundraise. They will get a. Little portion of the money that that we would get. We’re willing to, again being very transparent, we’re, we’re really looking to work with coaches and teams and AAU teams. And once we get it all launched and then ready ready to go, or once we’re ready to go next fall, I mean, I think there’s a lot of, a lot directions we can go with this. I just, I love the concept. I love the idea, I love how we’re jumping into just basketball and really pumping it out. Again, what is give with hoops? It’s for schools, coaches, booster clubs, colleges, districts. It’ll probably be a little bit different with high school where we’ll make it a little easier just because you’re going to have student athletes going out and trying to get sponsors and coaches, and we want to make it really easy.

Colleges in a little bit larger high schools when you’re dealing with someone going after sponsors already. There’ll be a little bit more to offer a little bit higher of an ask from the sponsors. But we want to make it accessible and easy to use for everyone that’s involved.

Again, designed by coaches, built by former NASA engineers. The back end of this is incredible. Again, during the game you’ll have a platform that is showing your, your team site with all the sponsors, and then also it’ll have a running a scoreboard of how much money you’re raising, how many shots you’ve had.

A lot trying. I’ll give you as much information as I could. But that’s where we’re at. I mean, I’m very excited about what this can do how it can help teams raise money to cover the expenses that sometimes your budget won’t cover. I was really big a few years ago on, on my basketball team.

I wanted to get new uniforms probably a little too often. Probably every year, every two years. I think at the time was four years. So we were one of those teams that we wanted draw attention to having  notch shoes notch. Gear, top notch uniform. So we were always raising money in order to do those things.

We one time we had to raise money to get a shooting machine and it was quite a bit of money. We got our whole program from freshmen JB Varsity all to commit to this and we’re able to not get one shooting gun, but we got two. Again, not using this platform, but other fundraising platforms that are very similar.

So. As you can see, this is very exciting. Another really cool feature is kids that get out and they do the legwork and they get 10 sponsors. No matter how much how big the sponsors are, whether it’s bronze, all the way to gold, you get 10 sponsors, we’ll buy you. Right now, the popular shoes, John Morant, I mean it, I guess it doesn’t have to be John, but any any shoe right around price point students that are going out there and raising the money, a nice pair of shoes. If a team where 10 or more players on a team go out and they get 10 or more we’ll, we’ll get the whole team shoes. So we’ll sponsor their team shoes.

[00:15:23] Mike Klinzing: So one of the things that I really like about this is the fact that the coach can kind of take the lead on reaching out to businesses.

I know that sometimes, especially at the high school level, right, a lot of times you have athletic departments or booster clubs that. Put together a program, or they have companies that sponsor on a scoreboard or that type of thing. So a lot of times there’s companies in place that already want to support the athletic department or want to support a team.

And I feel like the coaches through their athletic department, them going out and talking to companies seems like a really good avenue for getting this thing started. And then, as you said, you also have the ability for. The kids to go out and be able to, hopefully through their parents, be able to maybe make contact with some local businesses that might be interested in supporting.

But just talk about how you think the role of, let’s say again, talking about a high school basketball coach, what would you foresee their role being and how, how would you recommend them kind of approaching this.

[00:16:23] Tyler Whitcomb: Yeah, absolutely. And again, I think a lot of the asking the man pa  going after those little donations, I just think it’s oversaturated right now.

And I think something different is unique as this is, I think it can really be an advantage and I think coaches, you’re asking their role, I think them just being the overall managers of it.  just by helping kids create a game plan around it and going out and talking to their parents in the parent meetings and finding ways to get in front of these businesses to get sponsors.

But then just like you said, coaches can also. As they can be sales reps of their own and really get out there into the community and what a great way to connect and get people to support your program.  and I think, and then you also mentioned boosters. I mean, there’s some schools that.

All fundraisers are booster led. I mean, boosters, I think they’ll love this platform as well.  parents will that really want to get involved. I mean, everyone knows people that own businesses. Every community has those local businesses that want to support and be involved.  with, with, with sports teams in general or, or  whether it’s band or clubs or whatever it is, it’s companies are out there and they want to support and be involved, and I think this is a perfect platform to do that.

[00:17:47] Mike Klinzing: I agree with that. Tell me about how you envision the ongoing connection between potential sponsors and your team. I think that’s one of the big benefits is just the fact that when a company sponsors, oftentimes they just. Disappear, right? And there’s no connection that’s ongoing between your team and the sponsor.

But I think there’s a lot of different ways that you can, as a team, recognize your sponsors, get them involved. So just talk a little bit about some of the ways that you can kind of keep the sponsors engaged throughout the course of the season.

[00:18:24] Tyler Whitcomb: Sure. Yeah. I mean, during the game and again, we’re just using three pointer just because it’s easy.

Everyone loves shooting threes and easy stat to use. But let’s say during the game Mike, you hit a three and it’s, it’s Allstate the local Allstate company down the road. They they pledge $5 every three year team hits. And Myers they donate $5 or Kroger, whoever. As someone hits a three in the game on the scoreboard, not only does it have the companies and it, and it shows the sponsors, but then it also shows what you’re raising the money for.

And then the cool thing, the, the greatest feature in, in my eyes is it’s really easy to just hit a button. The stat will go up and  it’ll, it’ll show how many threes you’ve hit, but then also how much money you’ve brought in. So as you’re making whatever the stat is, and again, we’re using the three pointer, but you hit a three pointer, it’s showing live how much money you’ve raised.

So I think that’s just unique and the community will. Just really support that. And then after the game you can use that same information and write your stories and thank your sponsors, but then also talk about how all the sponsors together were able to help raise  X amount of dollars and therefore we’re able to.

The things that we were hoping to raise the funds for. So you can really tie the whole community  and every, all the stakeholders are involved. You can, you can get them as involved as they want. What’s really unique about this, this platform is during, again, during the games, as you’re hitting it, it’s hitting the shots.

It’s, it’s showing it live and how much money you’re raising it. And you can see the benefits of these companies getting. And supporting it. And  you can do unique things with this platform as well, so you can  again, make a playoff push. It could be a big, big game and you’re, you’re hosting the districts and next thing  you could get four teams that are involved, or six teams, whoever’s part of that district.

And you could really do some unique things with this platform and raise some, some good money.

[00:20:31] Mike Klinzing: I like the idea of the continued connection between the companies and the entity that they’re sponsoring, which doesn’t always happen again. So often. I think as a donor you give money and then. That connection is lost.

Right? And maybe your logo goes on the scoreboard, or maybe it goes in the program, but there’s not really a connection. Whereas here you could easily see where, whether it’s through the scoreboard, whether it’s through, so social media, but even just the ability, right, to send a company an email, Hey, we made.

Eight, three pointers in the game last night, or we made 15 three pointers in the game last night. Even for the companies to be able to display something in their business, like I’m thinking about like a local restaurant says, Hey, we’re, we’re, we’re sponsoring the Mustangs and we’re giving, we’re pledging a dollar for every three pointer made.

And they have a little, whether it’s a whiteboard or just a sign, or again a digital on their, on their digital monitor somewhere in their lobby, things like that, where. There, there’s again, an ongoing connection where you don’t just feel like, Hey, I gave my money and now that’s all there is.

This again, allows you to be able to make that. Connection over and over and over again, which a strengthens the relationship between the team and the business, not only for that year, but then if you’re asking people to come back and renew that, Hey, we didn’t just give you our check once and then never saw you or never heard from you again.

This is something that’s kind of ongoing. That’s one of the things I really like about it. because I feel like, again, as a sponsor, I would want to know that there’s that. Connection and appreciation and being able to see like, Hey, what’s my donation going to support? And to your point, maybe it’s uniforms, maybe it’s a shooting machine, maybe it’s a a trip that the team’s going to take.

Who knows what it could be. Obviously coaches can get as creative as they want with that, but I just love the ongoing connection piece of it.

[00:22:38] Tyler Whitcomb: Yeah, I do too. I think it’s great. I think I never even thought about the fact that the local companies then can display their connection and their whether it’s a restaurant or whether it’s a store and just showing their involvement.

I think that’s huge.  there’s this, cafe that’s in this little small town that I was an athletic director at. And I used to love going to the cafe to eat lunch or breakfast. And in that cafe it would have all their sports accomplishments for, from that local high school. And they always.

Constantly putting up different posters, different new t-shirts, new slogans, whatever it is for that team. And they really supported it. And I mean, that was just, to me, that was the ultimate  community en engagement. And that just that ultimate brand awareness of the school and the company that was involved.

[00:23:32] Mike Klinzing: How do you see working on the social media side in terms of. Give with hoops would be able to offer in terms of support framework for how to get stuff out on social media. I know you talked a little bit about that in terms of what the website’s going to be able to do and sort of to be able to have the real time scoreboard, but talk a little bit more about that sort of a tech backend of it and what you guys will be able to do in order to again, support a coach or an athletic department that jumps on board with.

Get it on social media to be able to get it up on their school website, to be able to get it up on their scoreboard. Give us a little bit of an idea of what kind of things you’ll have in place to, to be able to support that.

[00:24:17] Tyler Whitcomb: Yeah, absolutely. So. In the back end of it  once the game’s over we’ll be able to grab those analytics and the stats and be able to  put a summary of how much money it raised, what it did in the community.

And then we’re able to create a story for them. We’ll have multiple templates that they can use and they can simply use our template with our logo and then they can slap their logo on it or. Choose to just put their own story up on social media. Put the, the sponsor’s logos will be attached to it with the templates that we’ll use.

But I mean, honestly, it’s just just making the story creating that awareness about what you did, what you accomplished, and how those local companies were a big part of that.

[00:25:05] Mike Klinzing: Yeah. To me, I think that’s huge to be able to do it in real time and to be able to get it out there immediately after a game and just have it so that people can see the, the kids who are on the team, right, can see and be excited about, Hey, look at how much money we’re raising.

The coach sees it, the community sees it, and then the sponsor sees it. And so all that again, helps to provide awareness. And the more awareness you get, obviously then it becomes easier. To maybe get the next, next ask for somebody who’s sitting in the stands that maybe owns a business that didn’t get approached.

Or maybe somebody says, Hey, I see all these things that are being posted from the Mustang basketball team. I want to get involved in that. I want to jump on board. And so I think the more that you make it. Publicly viewable to me. Again, you’re getting the benefit of the people that are involved in it already, but you’re also sort of educating the community on, hey, this is an opportunity to be able to support the kids that are a part of this program.

And like I said, I really like, again, the idea of we’re going and we’re trying to get businesses to support us. And I know that one of the things, at least here in our community. I feel like our business community wants to support, like we do a lot of team dinners for all the teams at the high school. And so people are always going to local restaurants and they’re usually more than willing to donate for, for those dinners.

And so you take it a step further and you say, okay, so a dinner if you’re going to feed. Let’s say a football team or you’re going to feed a basketball team, a, a freshman JV and varsity basketball team. You’re talking about feeding whatever, 35, 40 kids and then five or six coaches and  that’s 200 bucks right there.

And you’re already, you. At the you’re already at the silver level and then you’re talking about the pledge and all those kinds of things. And as we all know, there’s lots of businesses out there that want to get involved. It’s kinda like charity workouts feel like people want to get involved in it, but they don’t necessarily know.

How to do that. And so when you make it easy for them to participate, I think you can get a lot of people to be able to jump on board with it. As opposed to sometimes people are like, well, I’d like to support these teams, but I don’t really know how. To do that and to be able to have a platform, a place that they can go.

And again, when you’re simplifying it and making all those things available, all the tools that you guys are going to have to make it seamless for a coach or for one of their players to be able to go out and approach a business. To me, I just feel like the simplicity of it combined with the technology piece of it, which again, we all know that that’s the direction that.

All this is going, everything is going in a technological direction. So to be able to have kind of on both ends of it, right? You, you start out with just, Hey, we’re using some analytics, we’re using some, we’re tracking statistics, and then you’re able to compile all that and put it together and make it available for public consumption, which I think is cool too.

I mean, again, how many people sitting in the stands parent. Fan, business owner, community member. How many of those people know how many three pointers get made in a game or get made over the course of a season? I would bet that most of the people have no id, even those of us who are paying attention, a lot of times you, I can be watching a game and think, I wonder how many threes that team has or compared to this team.

A lot of times I’ll be surprised by the difference between the two teams, even though I’m sitting there watching the game. So I think to be able to. Keep it out there for people and keep it front of mind to me, I think is another big benefit that, that this platform is going to provide for people for sure.

[00:28:49] Tyler Whitcomb: Absolutely. And another thing that I didn’t mention too is another big piece of it is the backend is we create that page forum. And there’ll always be a link to during your stories or during your social media posts of a link to go to that page and it’ll show what you’re raising the money for.

It’ll show the team picture, it’ll show how many people it reached, the audience. It’ll, it’ll show. Again, what you’re raising the money for, but also then how many threes you hit, how much money you raised, and it’ll thank all the sponsors. So that will always be live as well. So being able to have that link and throw that through your social channels or your website we’ll be able to really, again, create, create exactly what you’re trying to do is create that audience and show that support and thank your sponsors that were part of it. The other thing too is in the a a u scene is you don’t have a lot of signage that you can really. So having that page will really help.

I mean, you probably won’t be able to go after like four details or banners or anything, but with an AAU team, you can keep it really simple and have just the generic sponsor and just put it on that page and still be a big part of it. So

[00:30:00] Mike Klinzing: yeah. On the a a U side, I think obviously teams are always looking for ways to be able to raise money.

And you mentioned there that you have a little bit more flexibility with uniforms and being able to. Maybe put together a sponsor logo that could go somewhere on the uniform, which I always think is a good thing. If you can do that again, it gets it visible and gets it out in front of a lot of people.

And clearly on the a a U side of it too, you’ve got a lot of AAU teams that want to travel and we all know that one of the biggest challenges that we have with youth basketball in this country right now is just the. The cost of participating in AAU basketball. I know I’ve had my son who’s in college now, and then my daughter who’s a sophomore in high school.

When you look at what. There are seasoned costs in terms of, depending on the number of times that you go out of town and where you’re staying and what kind of thing that you’re, you’re doing with that, it, it gets expensive, fast. And when you’re talking about kids that maybe don’t have the economic means or their families to be able to do that, to be able to have, again, another way that you can raise money.

To be able to help offset some of those travel costs for your A A U program. I think that’s something, again, that is easy to look into. And then I think about a lot of the a a U directors and people that I know that and then think about how this platform could fit into what they do. And just again, how easy it would be to be able to have that page that you cited, to be able to have that created and then have that access accessible to businesses that are sponsoring to, to the families.

Again, just to again Cool. To keep track of whatever the statistic is. Like you said, if, especially if it’s something that your team or your coaching style, what, whatever that you kind of tailor it to, to your team, whether it’s threes or something else. Just is another way to drum up interest, not just in the sponsorship piece of it, but just in your team in general.

Right. It gets more eyeballs. Attention to what your, whether it’s your high school team, your a AAU team. So I think that that’s have to be something that, again, is really beneficial just to be able to have your team name, your, your group in front of the, in, in the public eye with a, with a, with a statistic or whatever it, whatever it might be.

So I just think that again, you’ve, you’ve, you’ve hit on something here, Tyler, that I think has a lot of benefits to. People all the way around, it benefits the sponsors. because again, I think people want to get involved and donate, but they don’t necessarily know how. And then I think from a coaching standpoint, you’re, you’re kind of going to a market that, as you said before, the, the mom and pop and grandma and aunt and uncle, like those people are, those people are kind of tapped out.

But when you start tapping into the business community, you have people that I think want to get involved. And so it’s. I think it’s a little bit easier of a sell and I also like it because I think the coach can kind of take the reins and be, if you’re someone that, yeah. Is enthusiastic and wants to sell your program, you can get out in the community and talk to people.

And obviously your athletic department obviously has a lot of contacts as well, that they can kind of guide you in the right direction as a high school coach to see what kind of businesses you can reach out to. But I think the coach could take a big lead in this and set a great example for. For their players who may go out and try to get sponsors as well.

But I think it’s an opportunity for coaches to, to really reach out to their business communities and drum up the kind of support that maybe has been out there, but not being tapped into simply because of just, there hasn’t been a great platform in order to do that.

[00:33:34] Tyler Whitcomb: Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I love that.

And if the coach can’t take on the reins, which I love the direction and I love the, the picture you’re painting is, yeah, this, this would be a unique opportunity for a coach to take that leadership and really with the team, build something pretty special and be able to build a whole game plan around, creating those and getting some support to be able to do the things that you want to do as a team. I think it’s great. And if a coach doesn’t have the time or doesn’t want to, I mean, then he can maybe have an assistant take the reins or Yeah.  teach him some leadership or some leadership or maybe a parent or a booster, a member that wants to get involved.

And, I mean, it’s, I love it.

[00:34:16] Mike Klinzing: Yeah. Alright, so before we get out, give us. The best way to find out more about give with hoops, what do people need to do if they’re interested in getting involved with you guys? If you’re in, if they’re interested in getting started, what are the steps in the process they need to take?

Where do they go? Who do they contact so they can get this thing going at their school? As we, as we move forward, whether it’s just with a rivalry game this year, or they want to jump on board once it goes live, I know most teams are kind of in the middle of their season, but just how can people get started with this?

[00:34:53] Tyler Whitcomb: Absolutely. So you can go with the give with hoops.com. If you scroll down to the bottom or even at the top, there is a sign up button, click on the button, takes less than three minutes to sign up, and then you would get a follow-up email from someone with Give with hoops. And then part of that follow up email, it would be some onboarding questions and walk you through the steps.

But also I really recommend going to the website, playing around with this, seeing all the features  our email’s on there. You can reach out, we can answer any question that you might have. But really play around on the, on the website. Click on the sign up again. It takes three minutes.

And then we’ll reach out to you and touch base with you. Also, you can always email me at Tyler at give hoops com anytime and I’ll get back to you within within the hour most likely. I’m I’m really fast at getting back to people.

[00:35:48] Mike Klinzing: Perfect. Tyler. I’m really excited about this. I’m super excited that we’re partnering up and going to try to work together to get this thing out to as many coaches as we possibly can.

I think that it, it’s a tremendous service. I know that, again, just from all the teams that I’ve been involved with. The idea of fundraising, a lot of times gets coaches to roll their eyes. They don’t necessarily want to do it. Yeah, they want the funds, but nobody really has enjoyed a lot of the ways that funds are being raised at this point.

And I think this gives you sort of a way to tie it into the performance. Team. And so it’s a different angle than anything that I’ve seen taken, which is why when you reached out to me, I thought, Hey, I think this would be a really good partnership for for hoop heads to be able to support what you’re trying to do.

because again, I think fundraising’s an important part. You can talk to any coach at any level, and one of the things that head coaches always say is. One of my responsibilities is fundraising, and almost every coach that I’ve ever talked to when, when oftentimes we have the conversation out here of, Hey, what’s it like when you transition from being an assistant coach to a head coach?

And one of the frequent questions I always ask is, well, what are some things that you end up having to do that you didn’t maybe realize that head coaches did as much of this as you thought when you were an assistant coach? And inevitably everybody says. You have to fundraise. And I don’t care if that’s high school, if that’s college, if it’s AAU whatever.

Everybody’s always looking for ways to, to build more support for their program so they can get some of the things that they need to be able to have success and make their kids experience a good one. And so I think that the Give with Hoops platform is going to be a great way for coaches to be able to tap into those business.

Resources in their community and be able to raise the kind of funds they need to have the support for, for their program to make it everything that they hope it can be. So again, I’m, I’m excited about the partnership between Hoop Heads and Give with hoops. I’m glad that we had an opportunity to sit down and even before the pod.

You walk me through all the different features and things that are, are a part of Give with hoops and I think tonight we’ve given people at least a good idea of. What the platform is all about and what they can expect when they sign up. And hopefully we’ll get a bunch of people to go to the website, check it out, and jump on with give with hoops.

because I do think that it’s a tremendous way to be able to raise funds with your program. So hopefully people will get out there and do that. And one more time before we go, Tyler, give us the website again for the final time and then we’ll wrap things up.

[00:38:24] Tyler Whitcomb: Sounds great. Thanks again, Mike. I appreciate you having me on and I look forward to our partnership as well.

You can find us at givewithhoops.com. Look forward to talking to as many coaches as possible. Thank you again, Mike.

[00:38:38] Mike Klinzing: Absolutely, and thanks to everyone out there for listening. Really appreciate it. Hopefully you’ll get signed up here with Give With Hoops and we appreciate listening and we will catch you on our next episode. Thanks.

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