NWICY said:

Opened up my email saw that the AD has raised the prices on the bottom 5 rows of the balcony all the way around the balcony, in addition to what I'm pretty sure was a overall tkt raise. The price of success I guess.
Haven't seen WBB prices yet, but if they went up it's just a money grab, the product on the court lately hasn't demanded a price increase and last yrs mass defections didn't help anything.

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Kinch said:

I am glad the Big 10 is spending $40 million more than the Big 12 just to unveil “new” uniforms that aren’t really new.
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bellzisu said:

Yeah Deace was a Michigan fan, but he started talking about Iowa State when no one else did. He filled that void. We never had someone on the radio that even somewhat cared about Iowa State. I really think he is part of the reason we grew our fanbase in the early 2000's.

Think of some of the callers over the years... They might have made you cringe but you remembered their names.

Tommy from Des Moines
Diamond Dave (didn't he have a brother or something that called in)
Anthony who no matter what he talked about ended it with Go Hawks
Derrick in New Sharon

I'm sure I'm missing a ton of them... But you would hear them daily.

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Stumper said:

Or extension ladder in a loader to attach the top pieces of tin on a barn. LOL

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soccercy said:

Those are annual donations.

Agree, the parking pass with Gold level is worthless, there are times I think it would be faster to park in public parking.

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Three4Cy said:

It's appears like a last ditch effort for many of the small schools to stay afloat and field teams because they don't want to merge/consolidate. I could be off-target, but how many 8th graders are going to be playing varsity sports at 4A/5A schools compared to 1A/2A?

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swiacy said:

Accept my apologies if this has been discussed here but I’m very disappointed in our State Legislature and the IaHSAA for allowing 8th graders to be eligible to play High School football. There will be small 8 man schools that should combine with other programs that will now have small kids on the field against far bigger and faster upper class men. Hopefully I’m misinformed on this subject. If it is true, there should be a weight minimum included.

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mapnerd said:

And nowhere in football does one team have to play down 1 man (or more).

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soccercy said:

Those are annual donations.

Agree, the parking pass with Gold level is worthless, there are times I think it would be faster to park in public parking.

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1SEIACLONE said:

Easy to say that from sitting in front of a screen, but for a lot of these small towns, sharing or combining
sports they see as the first stop toward consolation of the district. Now I am not saying that should not happen, but for many, they are going to do everything in their power to make sure that school can continue as long as possible.
The state has been trying to kill off small districts for a couple of decades with mixed results. Maybe they should have used some of that money going to private schools to encourage smaller public schools to merge.

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soccercy said:

Yeah, the donation is a pretty significan't factor since you have to donate over 5 figures to sit in the lower bowl.

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Maybe a dumb question but are those donations yearly or one time?

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