I think they also said we were the first ever Big 12 team to play there.
Hey Pollard stop agreeing to these games
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Not to mention having to buy-out the games. I can’t believe people don't get it, but I’m starting to.
I wonder if those teams don’t command more money because that are guaranteed wins.
No one has been beating anyone down or is towing the company line. We have tried to help others (many ******** about it without understanding the complexities) understand the financials of the situation. If you don’t like the math, that doesn‘t make it fuzzy. It’s been explained several times, but share your math that allows us to afford buy-out these games and afford another home game. Increase ticket prices? Okay, how much of an increase is this fan base willing to accept? Please, show us your math!
Much like the beer thing though, its been shown in these threads that peer institutions seem to manage not playing in these types of games as often as we do. In both cases people toeing the company line (many who have worked for the AD in the past) come in here and act like its just impossible for ISU to do exactly what our peer schools are.
If Cincy can buy a game with a team like Bowling Green without a return, then so can ISU.
The game today was scheduled over a decade ago. At a time that we had the lowest donations in the conference and most of the then P5. In the current B12 we compare better in donations, but most of the new schools get financial help from their university. Vegas and Tulane are intentional destination game. The sec and big can afford to buy whatever they want. It’s more fair to compare how often we are doing home and homes versus the rest of the B12 and ACC. G5 aren’t buyer, they are the buyees. I hated today’s game and wish we could have 7 home games every year. I also understand that it’s a financial issue and the current environment won’t make it any easier, unfortunately.
You're making a straw man here. I was never talking about the big 10 or SEC.
Go look at the rest of the big 12. Its a huge difference for us and our current peers in the conference.
Fair regarding sec and big. So, we agree we are just talking about two conferences: the B12 and ACC.
Just this year Stanford (week 0), West Virginia, North Carolina, Houston, UCLA, Oklahoma*, SMU, Utah, Mississippi State, Cal and Iowa State have traveled to play G5s in the first 3 weeks. Next week, Arkansas, Washington, BYU and Cal (again) do the same (didn’t look past week 4). Thats an entire conference worth of teams, granted they are not all B12. I’m too tired to dig up past and future schedules.
Good night!
sometimes there are intangibles that are not quantified in a spreadsheet.
And those intangibles can certainly cause a superior team to lose to an inferior team….or at a minimum cause undue stress, fatigue, and wear, etc.
People will pay extra for a home game.
The money is simple.
The “we don’t change the price of the season tickets year to year” is only a sleight of hand.
Pay for the extra game and make us season ticket holders and Single game tickets pay for it.
Still cheaper than going to Jonesboro for a weekend.
I can assure you, after they were offered and took the Ireland game, they considered buying out of this game.
I think what you don’t account for is what that extra home game will cost. If you up season ticket prices another $50, what does that do to the numbers? Look, I’m all for not playing G5 teams on the road, but if I had to choose between that and paying our coaches/players, it’s an easy decision. If you don’t like it, donate more.
I get all sides of this debate, agree with both sides on many things. Bottom line is, we played a crappy team that we should have destroyed yesterday and didn't. If we would have, this thread wouldn't even be a thing this morning.
Also, it's incredibly obvious that JP has some minions that peruse and post to these threads, lol!
Also, it's incredibly obvious that JP has some minions that peruse and post to these threads, lol!
No, it’s been a topic for years, and particularly all week
Interesting that Pollard’s reason for not protecting the KSU game was alluding to not being at a disadvantage in terms of having more difficult schedules
It's possible to lose these games at home too, then you're paying them to beat you and it's even worse.
If we're losing to Arkansas State, we've got bigger problems to worry about than whether we played them at home, or on the road.
Matt is coaching ISU at a discount and is a massive asset to the AD. If he doesn’t want these games they need to be discontinued asap.
If only JP had realized it would be 110 degrees in Jonesboro when he scheduled this game 11 year ago.
