Jesus. I was hoping I didn’t need to spell out the point of my little if 2.8M Cyclone fans gave $1 jokes, but here we are.
It is impractical to expect an NIL collective funded by a subset of people born in Iowa will keep pace with those funded by billionaires.
It is impractical to expect a Cyclone T. Boone Pickens to just materialize.
That said, the solution to this problem is right out in the open.
Just a couple days ago when Sitake was the leading candidate people were confident Campbell was safe as long as Marcus Freeman didn’t jump ship.
Do I need to spell this out?
Iowa State needs to grow its fanbase dramatically if it wants to compete. There are only so many Iowans. How do the Cyclones go global?
I know what you’re thinking, growing an international religion takes years and we don’t have that kind of time. You’re right. But maybe we don’t need to?
Let us not forgot that at one point a digital computer existed only in the domain of science fiction. Then Atanasoff and Berry came along and made it real.
Well, at one point Thetans and Xenu were merely science fiction. Then along came L. Ron Hubbard and well, maybe he didn’t make them real, but he made them quite lucrative.
The point is the partnership isn’t as far-fetched as you might believe.
Sure, Scientology doesn’t have the user base of a Catholicism or a Mormonism, but what it lacks in headcount it makes up for in deep-pocketed celebrities.
In the very least I think this warrants a sit down. Yormark seems like the kind of guy who could facilitate it.
Make it happen, JP!
