The annual Syracuse University Sport Management Club Charity Sports Auction has raised $75,000 over the past four years, but, due to low attendance numbers over the years, the event is changing to a December date in order to combine with this Saturday's Syracuse men's basketball game against Maine.The change hasn't been easy though.
According to the club's Auction Chair, Kate Futrell, who is also on the club's Board of Directors, Sport Management Club members and volunteers have had four less months to get auction items.
Little logistic issues including not having enough lanyards for event-day credentials and not having more than two typewriters to type up individual bid sheets for the more than 300 auctions items have slowed preparations down.
With four days to go until the auction, the main problem Futrell says is that there are still many auction items that need to be inventoried, labeled and packaged.
Futrell went on to discuss a bright side about this year's auction, that it has some "unmatched" items up for auction, including a Hank Aaron rookie card.
For more on the auction and what the change to a December date has brought to the auction's volunteers, watch the full story that NCC New's Devon Heinen filed.
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