Money raising for NIL
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In all seriousness, the best way to fund NIL is for ISU, The State of Iowa, and others to deeply invest in startups and attracting entrepreneurs to Central Iowa. We also need to invest more into existing businesses to help the scale!
A couple businesses scale to billion dollar exits is the only way to keep up in this current landscape.
A couple businesses scale to billion dollar exits is the only way to keep up in this current landscape.
I’m the tightest German you know…I get it.
This whole idea of making marginally talented 18 year olds millionaires is ridiculous.
Unfortunately I don’t know how we’re gonna stop this train without waiting for the inevitable collapse.
Has the foundation advertised the we will fund anywhere? It seems to me that I haven’t heard a single campaign or advertisement from the university about. It seems like I’ve only heard about it from CF and Blum who doesn’t even work on it anymore.
I’ve gone to a handful of basketball games and I don’t think I ever recall a single video message about the wewill fund.
I’ve gone to a handful of basketball games and I don’t think I ever recall a single video message about the wewill fund.
I can hear the story when we win the natty "Innovate at iowa state....through a partnership with the donor network....iowa state has been able to land every top prospect with their "championship kidney' campaign.....fan can even visit CyTown on Friday and McFarland Clinic will take the kidney and with their advanced recovery,.fans walk out the door the next day ready to tailgate and cheer on the Cyclones!"
Appreciate the idea. But, they are already getting paid more than what most people make in a year. Now we want to pay them several hundred dollars just to show up at events? **** that.
I think what is tricky is it's a recurring budget need....so need to figure out in the ath dept how to generate that internally budget wise vs the ongoing need to scratch/claw/beg fans to donate.
It just is such a different ask than 5 years ago.
I totally get the "you get what you pay for" mentality, but also get how if an average fan mustered up $5k to donate, also disheartening to know that paid for two snaps for a backup QB....who then transfers.
It just is such a different ask than 5 years ago.
I totally get the "you get what you pay for" mentality, but also get how if an average fan mustered up $5k to donate, also disheartening to know that paid for two snaps for a backup QB....who then transfers.
Have a feeling We Will is going to have a slow death. Hope I’m wrong, but have a feeling the athletic department is going to be only focused on big ticket items and kind of forget about We Will. Once again, hope I’m wrong.
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Again, totally your prerogative to do what you want. Just saying that using the logic that "we've been fine for the last 5-10 years" as reason to dismiss the importance of the current need, is playing with fire.
I'm not dismissing any current need, I suppose more downplaying the utter importance of it. If I and 1,000 other joe schmo fans don't increase our ISU donation by $100, $500, $1k, the AD isn't going to cease to exist. ISU isn't going to be competing with UNI for championships moving forward. We'll continue to be a middling Big 12 football team. Seems the basketball team is doing fine, and I'd expect that to continue assuming we can keep TJ.
We're not at the same level as top B1G/SEC teams, and my donation isn't going to change that barring a lotto win.
Weren't you also running around all the Pollard/NIL threads screaming about how he was going to kill our AD?
Slight grain of salt. They've been able to throw some pretty big money around in the portal here the last couple of years and his success is going to be somewhat dependent on that continuing.
Just because Iowa State isn't playing in the deepest end of the pool doesn't mean the program is hanging out in the kiddie pool either.
I saw this infinite money glitch on Tik Tok that said all you have to do is just cash a really big check at the ATM even if you don't have the funds. I was thinking about trying that with a billion dollar check. I'll let you guys know how it turns out.
Update: I'm in jail.
Update: I'm in jail.
Hey, at least you tried. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. See you in 2-to-4 years.
Raffle off an opportunity to give 1 electric shock to the timeout clock guy. That would certainly make watching him during timeouts be a lot more interesting too.
P.S. The electric shock would not be life threatening, but big enough so that we would all know when it happened.
Can do you one better. Casino in Iowa City. "We're building an NIL and IOWA'S GOING TO PAY FOR IT!!"
Corn is big in Iowa. Wrestling is big in Iowa. Corn Oil Wrestling would be big in Iowa!
