Big East Coaches & The Ice Bucket Challenge

On a serious note I just sent my contribution of $50 to the ALS Association. Let's hope many of the people participating in this fun challenge are also contributing financially especially the well off individuals so that we can defeat this hideous disease.
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It has raised over 2.8mm so far more than double their typical yearly fundraising.
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Great to hear. Always thought this disease never got the attention it deserves so we can try to find a cure. All muscular diseases are terrible and hope one day they will all have cures.
 
Paul,
This post made me want to shove two very sharp objects straight into my eyes so that I would never have to see it again. However, I feel that the principal from the movie Billy Madison may have said it best:
"Paul Massell, what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
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That is the appropriate response that I was waiting for. Thank you.
 
agreed. I know a family that has been devastated by this disease over several generations. The second generation has only one survivor. The rest all died young. The third generation has already lost two in their 20s. It weighs heavily on both the parents and children even when healthy fearing that they (or their child) will be next.
 
This whole thing has been quite amazing. On August 7 a buddy of mine who lost his songwriting partner (their top claim to fame is Benatar's "We Belong") to ALS posted a little message on Facebook about this ALS fundraiser and then he dumped a bucket of ice water on his head and I thought it was funny. 10 days later . . . just unbelievable.
 
I applaud everybody participating in the fundraiser, but the truth is more progress would be made towards curing ALS if each person wrote anot email their congressmen instead.

Budget cuts this year stripped $1.5 BILLION in funding from the NIH.
Private fundraising is a drop in the bucket when you look at the resources needed for meaningful research.
 
I have been nominated to participate in the ice bucket challenge, as well as several other of these challenges in recent months, and I have refused them all. I have a problem with these challenges for several reasons. I feel that they are making light of a situation/disease that is very serious. To the participants, it's all a game and a form of entertainment. Let's all dump ice water on ourselves to make people more aware of ALS...But here is the problem, do you honestly think more people are more knowledgeable of the disease after this challenge? How many people are really researching and learning about this disease? Some may choose to educate themselves, but I am guessing that the majority of the participants still have no idea what ALS even is. So what's the real benefit of these challenges? Yes, they do have some monetary value to them. I believe that someone had previously posted that is had raise $2.88million so far. And I understand that every little bit helps, but in the field of medical research, that is not a lot of money at all.
Also, I think it's a little disrespectful to the individuals who suffer from Lou Gehrigs disease. The individuals and their families are affected by this each and every day of their lives.....they can't get away from it. The people who participate in this challenge dump water on their heads for like 10seconds, and then go on living their normal, everyday lives, probably never giving it another thought.

I don't want to sound like a glass half empty kind of guy, but I just don't think its right to associate a social media fad with a terrible disease that affects so many people.
 
I have been nominated to participate in the ice bucket challenge, as well as several other of these challenges in recent months, and I have refused them all. I have a problem with these challenges for several reasons. I feel that they are making light of a situation/disease that is very serious. To the participants, it's all a game and a form of entertainment. Let's all dump ice water on ourselves to make people more aware of ALS...But here is the problem, do you honestly think more people are more knowledgeable of the disease after this challenge? How many people are really researching and learning about this disease? Some may choose to educate themselves, but I am guessing that the majority of the participants still have no idea what ALS even is. So what's the real benefit of these challenges? Yes, they do have some monetary value to them. I believe that someone had previously posted that is had raise $2.88million so far. And I understand that every little bit helps, but in the field of medical research, that is not a lot of money at all.
Also, I think it's a little disrespectful to the individuals who suffer from Lou Gehrigs disease. The individuals and their families are affected by this each and every day of their lives.....they can't get away from it. The people who participate in this challenge dump water on their heads for like 10seconds, and then go on living their normal, everyday lives, probably never giving it another thought.

I don't want to sound like a glass half empty kind of guy, but I just don't think its right to associate a social media fad with a terrible disease that affects so many people.
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I don't have a problem with it ( I was nominated but am just writing the check but I reserve the right to do the challenge later on if I think of a really creative way to do it )

I think some have just done it because it's become the trendy thing to do. But no doubt its caught on like wildfire

I'd rather see everyone send in $100 if they do the challenge or choose not to do it. But either way there have been some pretty funny ones I have seen
 
Charlie Sheen, strangely enough, got it right IMO. Instead of ice water, he dumped $10,000 on his head and donated it to ALS research.

 
I have been nominated to participate in the ice bucket challenge, as well as several other of these challenges in recent months, and I have refused them all. I have a problem with these challenges for several reasons. I feel that they are making light of a situation/disease that is very serious. To the participants, it's all a game and a form of entertainment. Let's all dump ice water on ourselves to make people more aware of ALS...But here is the problem, do you honestly think more people are more knowledgeable of the disease after this challenge? How many people are really researching and learning about this disease? Some may choose to educate themselves, but I am guessing that the majority of the participants still have no idea what ALS even is. So what's the real benefit of these challenges? Yes, they do have some monetary value to them. I believe that someone had previously posted that is had raise $2.88million so far. And I understand that every little bit helps, but in the field of medical research, that is not a lot of money at all.
Also, I think it's a little disrespectful to the individuals who suffer from Lou Gehrigs disease. The individuals and their families are affected by this each and every day of their lives.....they can't get away from it. The people who participate in this challenge dump water on their heads for like 10seconds, and then go on living their normal, everyday lives, probably never giving it another thought.

I don't want to sound like a glass half empty kind of guy, but I just don't think its right to associate a social media fad with a terrible disease that affects so many people.
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I don't have a problem with it ( I was nominated but am just writing the check but I reserve the right to do the challenge later on if I think of a really creative way to do it )

I think some have just done it because it's become the trendy thing to do. But no doubt its caught on like wildfire

I'd rather see everyone send in $100 if they do the challenge or choose not to do it. But either way there have been some pretty funny ones I have seen
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I'm writing a check too. By the way it's $53.3 million raised so far, still just a drop in the bucket (get it) but awareness has value as well. You need that first before you can get to activism like Desco suggests. Couldn't disagree more with Jumbo's opinion of the program. Is it a gimmick, sure. But without the gimmick the victims, friends and families would just be anonymous and that's worse. As I mentioned I was brought into this by a friend who lost his best friend to the disease and does his own fundraisers for ALS outside of this activity but he could never raise the kind of funds that something like this does. Neither he nor his friend's family have any problem with this type of effort. Truth is you usually need a gimmick to get America off its ass and even then it's usually temporary but temporary is better than not at all. Honestly besides projects that touch me personally 90% of my charitable donations, what little they are, are generated by such actions - St. Baldricks, Movember, Various Walks, etc...
 
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