Panther Family,

Welcome to the start of the 2025-26 athletics season! It's been a busy summer for our coaches, staff and student-athletes. We have many teams already on campus; in fact, our women's soccer team already played an exhibition match, and we welcome everyone else back the weekend of Aug. 23-24.

I appreciate those of you who listened to the podcast with the venerable Dave Cohen several weeks ago. The House Settlement is certainly the beginning of some major changes to what we all know the college athletic experience to be. I also thank you for your questions that came from the podcast. I hope to answer most in the coming weeks with a series of letters addressed to our stakeholders. 

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In this, we share very relevant and timely information on events, ticket opportunities, road trips, merchandise and many other fan engagement opportunities for all to participate. The next event occurs this Saturday night with the football Blue & White Affair at Center Parc Credit Union Stadium.

With the calendar turning to August, we are actively trying to sell football tickets and renew or create new Panther Athletic Club donors. With the ever-present focus on student-athlete licensing rights, we are also trying to find supporters willing to help with revenue sharing initiatives. It's no secret that we're competing against schools who receive more campus funding than we do, and who have been playing football for many more years than we have; so, we need engaged fans to become engaged ticket buyers, and engaged donors for us to compete in today's world of athletics. So, when you receive a text, email, phone call or see a social media post about buying tickets, please ENGAGE! Do not expect others to buy or contribute if you aren't willing to do likewise. Our coaches, student-athletes and staff work extremely hard to represent us in a positive manner and they deserve our holistic support.

As we prepare for the upcoming football season, we are finalizing several new exciting concepts, three of which I will introduce:

Lastly, I thank you your positive support of Georgia State Athletics as we are transforming the lives of every young man and woman in our program. We have an incredibly dedicated staff that embodies servant leadership, and it is my pleasure to work with them daily in this pursuit.

As a reminder, here is how you can help (and most importantly the contact information for our staff member tasked with leading):
 

Provide scholarship support via the Panther Athletic Club. Every private dollar we raise for scholarships allows us to take other revenues and place in the revenue share pool for student-athletes, or invest in capital projects or staff initiatives.

Ely Abbott | ely@gsu.edu

Invest in the Intercollegiate Athletics Fund for Competitive Excellence through the GSU Foundation. Again, these funds allow us to support the operational needs of our program and student-athletes.

Ely Abbott | ely@gsu.edu

Market your business or product(s) via Name, Image and Likeness agreements with our student-athletes via the All Blue All In collective or via Athletics, and our revenue sharing opportunities.

Mike Holmes | allblueallnil.com
Erik Paz | epaz@gsu.edu
Zack Gale | zgale@gsu.edu

Sponsor and Advertise with GSU

Gordon Hunter | ghunter@georgiastateas.com

Hire our student-athletes (Internships, Jobs)

Doug Justice | djustice@gsu.edu

Mentor student-athletes

Brad Horton | bhorton6@gsu.edu

Last, but not least - Buy tickets and attend games. 

Armani Glover | aglover28@gsu.edu

 
Let's Go Panthers!
 

Director of Athletics