Summary

• Initial emails sharing the vision deck continue from the Improved Player Support Task Force
• Messaging Task Force workshopping some tagline options and preparing web build out
• Full-time Coaching Task Force will reach out to other programs for more information on their process
• Trenary working up a document describing team needs prioritization for the Facility Task Force

Further meeting detail

Present

• Jake Bodner
• Joel Conzelmann
• Jamie Demers
• Nate Fisher
• Jamie Frech
• George Janke
• Tianna Kilgore
• Karl Seibert
• Andrew Swain
• Matt Trenary
• Tom Warburton
• James Wilber

Detailed notes

• Improved Player Support
  • Demers
    • First round emails happening
    • Positive responses
    • Some second round emails starting
  • Frech
    • Can I see examples of emails?
    • Trenary: Sure. Making it up and evolving as we go.
  • Demers
    • Palladino going to talk to MRF about communicating trainer drive to their donors
    • Bosma will help gather testimonials
    • Within all messaging, push OBW
• Full-time coaching
  • Swain
    • Know target. Need roadmap.
    • Looking at roles and responsibilities
  • Warburton
    • Reaching out to other programs to get intel on process
    • Swain working a lacrosse connection.
    • Frech has contacts with women’s varsity teams
      • Only PSU and ND in women’s Big Ten have paid coaching
    • All contacts can be pushed toward task force
• Messaging
  • Frech
    • Received feedback from first tagline “United”
      • Had a soccer connotation
    • Exploring others
      • Need a dynamic theme (can change through the process)
      • But do need a single Michigan Rugby [blank]
    • Value proposition
      • Needs to be a connection
    • Foundational elements of vision can have their own tagline
  • Top 10 suggested tag lines can get workshopped with small group
    • Will invite Trenary and Seibert to meet with messaging group
    • Can consider usage and potential wireframes
  • Want it to run on its own once we launch
  • Seibert
    • When workshopping, thinking back to early conversations in MR30, two elements were inclusivity and winning
    • Main future donors might not have even played here so messaging shouldn’t be esoteric
    • Frech
      • Yes, want it to be flexible
  • Frech
    • Other next steps. Building out web within the different groups
    • Incorporate within each site
    • Consider a standalone site. Or maybe within MRF?
• Facility
  • Wilber: Taking notes on the above so we can repeat Facility work/conversations similar to how IPS conversations are happening
  • Identify people at OBW, keep up the conversations
    • Not going to be operationally involved, but just keep them in the know on our progress
  • Participation seems key (inclusivity)
    • OBW: Who came. Who has given.
    • They will become interested in what parts they are interested in
  • Trenary drafting written team prioritization needs
    • Wilber cross-referencing with past event resources
  • Trenary
    • IPS emails are really doubling as facility outreach right now too
  • Wilber
    • Stay in contact with Seibert on MRF communications. Don’t want too much.
  • Seibert
    • How do we get people to “sign up” at OBW
    • Wilber
      • Could incorporate something digital that isn’t just another Zoom
  • Trenary
    • Stanford group worked to reinstate cut sports. Solid example of site with sign up.
    • Frech
      • Could put into separate sites too
• Admissions
  • Need to have a conversation with debate about tagging
• Seibert
  • Joint ball campaign was great and went over its goal
  • Speaks to a great campaign and community
  • Frech
    • Some people asking “Am I too late”
    • Get to point them to the next one and what’s coming up.