G&W Club used to donate $10k a year to Ohio Athletics. OBC raises 30 to 40 times that figure today. Like him or not, Schaus was right to shutter the good-ole-boy pregame party society.
It was closer to $100K. At its height we had 928 memberships (not members but memberships which often included multiple members of a family), sponsored a tailgate before every home football game, some basketball games, one for each Olympic sport where possible, sponsored the Senior Athletes banquet where we had many nationally known speakers through the years, and all for $100 per membership.
It was more of a social organization than a designated fundraising group where folks could simply show up with a chair if they chose and visit with friends and neighbors and other Bobcat fans. We often had 1000 or more folks for a Saturday home tailgate.
When Jimbo said you had to join the Bobcat Club to be a G&W member, that was the beginning of the end. he also eliminated split the pot which BG makes tons of money off of and did away with the Senior banquet. He was no friend of the common man.
Now Kirby, saw the value in it. In fact when he met for the first time with our treasurer and me, he said "gentlemen before we get started, how much is the G&W membership this year?" We told him $100 and he wrote us a check from his personal account on the spot. Jimbo on the other hand never joined.
As much as I generally respect your opinion SBH, you're way off on this one.