Tyler Whitcomb jumps on the Hoop Heads Podcast 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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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 raise and how many shots you've hit.

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 Kuiper Works Specialist and adjunct professor of Sports Management at Kuiper College.

He has also produced bestselling basketball playbooks and videos with Championship Productions.

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Hello and welcome to the Hoop Heads Podcast.

It's Mike Cleansing here tonight without my co host Jason Sunkel, but I am Pleased to be joined for, I believe, the third time, Tyler Wickham.

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 their 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.

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 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, you know, doing all the little things that you can.

And I think in order to have a good fundraiser, you know, you start off meeting with your team, talk about, you know, 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, you know, 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, you know, because I think online fundraising is beautiful.

Like, I loved it.

I made a lot of money for my.

For my teams being an athletic record 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 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 helps and PA 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, you know, we'll, we'll dive into, you know, what it, a three pointer, you know, and that'll be kind of what we'll run with, you know, I mean the other day I was at 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.

You know, it's as easy as you jump on the website, do sign up, put in your information on the onboarding, we ask the coach for, you know, all the information, we build them a webpage that fans and whatnot can go to.

But then also in the onboarding, onboarding, we put, you know, 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.

And 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, 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.

It's got automated updates, season dashboard, easy sharing, but just to make it really easy again.

It's real time, visual, exportable sponsor insights, trend analysis, performance analysis analytics, sorry and campaign comparison.

There's different ways you can collect the money but the pricing just so it makes it really simple and so you have a really good understandable understanding.

It's 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 you know a bronze sponsor where it's you know it's $100 plus a hundred dollar or one dollar per three point made.

Again I'm just using the three pointers.

I really, I had a Dean Oliver jump on in demo and he said you know you can really get in the weeds of the 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 you know, that really excites the fans or you can really jump into.

You know 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 want to suffocate you create turnovers, launch threes.

Neither 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, you know, six, zero runs and every time you get it, money gets donated.

Or you can do milestones or you know you could really use your imagination.

But also it's as easy as using just three pointers.

But you know 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 outs, newsletter mentions, silver sponsors.

You get all that plus two season tickets banner at home game gold sponsor.

You see get a, get a little bit more logo on uniforms would be mainly for a you but you can, if you're doing a high school or college you could, you could possibly do it on your warm up shirts or you know like you just put on a warm up for that game.

You Know, whatever, whatever you decide to work out the sponsor, highlight night, VIP 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 him doing core decals and, you know, whatnot.

But again, this stuff's pretty flexible the first year just because we're just getting going.

We're launching on Monday, officially launching.

And I don't think you, you know, 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 2 college, he said why not do a rivalry game the first year, kind of see how it goes.

You know, you'd have to increase, you know, the amount of pledges, you know, because $1 probably wouldn't make sense if it's just for one game.

You wouldn't be able to attract, you know, enough money for it to make sense, you know, for a fundraiser.

So, you know, you just increase that a little bit.

Maybe it's, you know, 10 bucks per, 3 for silver or I mean for bronze.

Silver's 15, gold's 20, 25.

You know, 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 will 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, you can get a big crowd and then pick that game.

You know, 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.

But I mean, it's free to get started.

It's really, really easy.

All the information's on give with hoops.

You know, we'll be partnering with coaches.

We really want to launch us 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 really looking to work with coaches and teams and AU 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 of 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, and right.

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 know, 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 and a little bit larger high schools.

When you're dealing with someone going after sponsors already, there will be a little bit more to offer, a little bit higher of an ask, you know, 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 scoreboard of, you know, how much money you're raising, how many shots you've hit, if, if again you're picking the three point shots.

So again, I know I threw a lot at you.

I was trying to.

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, you know, that sometimes your budget won't cover.

I was really big a few years ago on my basketball team.

I wanted to get new uniforms probably a little too often, probably every year, every two years, where our jersey rotation, I think at the time was four years.

So we were one of those teams that we really wanted to draw attention to having, you know, top notch shoes, top notch gear, top notch uniforms.

So we were always raising money in order to do those things.

We, you know, 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 freshman JV varsity, all to commit to this.

And we were 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, you know, they do the legwork and they get 10 sponsors no matter how much you Know 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 Morantz.

I. I mean, I guess it doesn't have to be John Morantz, but any, Any shoe, you know, right around that price point, we'll.

We'll get the students that are going out there and raising the money a nice pair of shoes.

If the 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.

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 would you recommend them kind of approaching this?

Yeah, absolutely.

And again, I think a lot of the, you know, asking the man, pa, you know, going after those little donations, I just think it's oversaturated right now.

And, you know, I think something different is unique.

You know, this is.

I think it can really be an advantage, you know, And I think coaches, you're asking their role, I think them just being the overall managers of it, you know, just by helping kids create a game plan around it and going out and talking to their parents, you know, in the parent meetings and.

And finding ways to get in front of these businesses to get sponsors.

But then, just like you said, coaches can also, as, you know, they can be sales reps of their own and really get out there into the community, and what a great way to connect and.

And get people to support your program.

Um, you know, 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.

You know, parents will, you know, 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, you know, with, with, with sports teams in general or you know, whether it's band or clubs or whatever it is, it's, you know, companies are out there and they want to support and be involved.

And I think this is a perfect platform to do that.

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.

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 you know, it's, it's all state.

You know, the local, all state company down the road, they, they pledge $5 every three your team hits.

And Myers, they donate $5 or Kroger, whoever.

And as someone hits a three in the game on the scoreboard, not only does it have the companies 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 my eyes is it's really easy to just hit a button, the stat will go up and you know, it'll, it'll show how many threes you've hit but then also how much money you 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 much money you've raised.

So I think that's just unique and the community will, you know, 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, you know, X amount of dollars.

And therefore we're able to get the things that, you know, we were hoping to raise the funds for.

So you can really Tie the whole community, you know, 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 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.

And you can see the benefits of these companies getting, getting behind it and supporting it.

And you know, you can do unique things with this platform as well.

So you can, you know, again make a playoff push.

It could be a big, big game and you know, you're, you're hosting the districts and next thing you know 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.

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?

Now, maybe your logo goes on the scoreboard or maybe it goes in the program, but there's not really a connection.

Whereas here it, you could easily see where, whether it's through the scoreboard, whether it's through 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, you know, 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, 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 want to know that there's that connection and appreciation and be 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 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.

Yeah, I do too.

I think it's great.

I think I, I never even thought about the fact that the local companies display their connection and their, you know, whether it's a restaurant or whether it's a store and just showing their involvement.

I think that's huge.

You know, 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're 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, you know.

Community.

Engagement and that just that ultimate brand awareness of, you know, the school and, and the company that was involved.

So how do you see it working on the social media side in terms of what 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 back end 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 this, to be able to get it out 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 be able to support that.

Yeah, absolutely.

So in the back end of it, you know, once the game's over, we'll be able to grab those analytics and the stats and be able to, you know, 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 they can choose to just put their own story up on social media, put the.

The sponsors logos will be attached to it with the templates that we'll use.

But I mean, honestly, it's just, you know, 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.

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 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 season.

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 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 freshman JV and varsity basketball team, you're talking about feeding whatever, 35, 40 kids and then five or six coaches, and you know, that's 200 bucks right there.

And you're already at the, you know, 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 kind of like charity work.

I always 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 of 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 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 idea.

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.

Absolutely.

And another thing that I didn't mention too is another big piece of it is the back end is we create that page for them.

And there will always be a link to during your stories or during your social media posts, a link to go to that page and it'll show you know, 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 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 voice 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 exactly.

What you're trying to do is create that audience and show that support and thank your sponsors that we're part of it.

The other thing, too, is, in the AAU scene is you don't have a lot of signage that you can really deliver.

So having that page will really help.

I mean, you probably won't be able to go after, like, floor decals 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.

Yeah.

On the AAU 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 AAU 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 their season 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 you're doing with that, it gets expensive fast.

And when you're talking about, you know, 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 AAU program, I think that's something, again, that is easy to look into.

And then I think about a lot of the AAU directors and people that I know that, and then think about how this platform could fit into what they do, and just, again, 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, just in your team in general.

Right.

It gets more eyeballs kind of paying attention to what you're.

Whether it's your high school team or your AAU team.

So I think that that's got 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.

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 kind of going to a market that, as you said before, 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.

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, and be.

If you're someone that is enthusiastic and wants to sell your program, you can get out in the community and talk to people.

And obviously your athletic department 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 can 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, 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.

No, 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 funds and, 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 you know, teach him some leadership or some leadership or you know, maybe a parent or a booster member that wants to get involved.

And I mean it's, I, I love it.

Yeah.

All right, 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, 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?

Absolutely.

So you can go to 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 it, seeing all the features.

You know, our email is 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 tylerivewithhoops.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, so.

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.

They want the funds.

But nobody really has enjoyed a lot of the ways that funds are being raised at this point.

I think this gives you sort of a way to tie it into the performance of your 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 is 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, you know, 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 know, as you thought when you were an assistant coach?

And inevitably, everybody says you got to fundraise.

And I don't care if that's high school, if that's college, if it's au, whatever.

Everybody's always looking for ways to build more support for their program so they can get some of the things 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 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 walked me through all the different features and things that 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.

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 givewith hoops.com look forward to talking to as many coaches as possible.

Thank you again Mike.

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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