No it’s not? It shows $535 for season tickets and $750 per seat donation.
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No it’s not? It shows $535 for season tickets and $750 per seat donation.
You’re fighting human nature at that point. Give something to get nothing doesn’t work.
Get in line. All of the farming input costs are increasing exponentially.
I've seen some of this on this thread and elsewhere. Just out of curiosity and to potentially help the communication gap, how would people in your position like to be contacted to be asked to donate?
lol, I can arrange that! Thanks for the kind words.I would like one half of the best broadcasting team ever to contact ne directly. So, please give Scott my number the next time you see him.
Seriously though, you guys were awesome.
The other thing unmentioned in this thread is sports apathy. I would speculate 25% of grads/alumni do not care about ANY sports AT ALL. Like literally zero. Another 50% probably is lukewarm about a sport or two. Very few are big sports fans. None of those folks are giving a dime, they absolutely do not care. Some
We are swimming here on CF in a self-selecting group of passionate ISU sports fans. That's probably 10% of all grads/alumni. Maybe less.
Yeah, it's always worth remembering that this is a university with a semi-pro sports franchise bolted on to it, and not the other way around. The idea that all, or even a substantial portion, of alums should care about sports by virtue of having attended a university doesn't make a lot of logical sense.
Between siblings and spouses we have six who attended ISU, and only two are big fans (one of those is me). One other will sort of follow football and basketball if they're doing well but hasn't been to a game in years. The other three would have absolutely zero interest in going, and with one I'm not sure they have ever been to an ISU athletic event. If this is at all representative, it just shows why finding a big donor base is so challenging. Most games I attend are with my wife (UNI grad), my dad (grew up in Ames and attended ISU for a year), or my aunt (grew up a fan).
No. I responded to the section of his email that showed that he had no connection to what goes on in Texas and Oklahoma. Maybe if people connected to local clubs they would donate to the NCC.But do they donate to the athletics dept
Many of us outside the states of Texas and Oklahoma are on the DFW Cyclones email list so we can enjoy everything Cyclones when we attend the games in Texas and Oklahoma.No. I responded to the section of his email that showed that he had no connection to what goes on in Texas and Oklahoma. Maybe if people connected to local clubs they would donate to the NCC.
I've seen some of this on this thread and elsewhere. Just out of curiosity and to potentially help the communication gap, how would people in your position like to be contacted to be asked to donate?
I have no idea if the number of student tickets at a football game relative to the size of the student body is a good proxy for this, but when the student section is full you're talking about ~8,000 out of a student body of about 30,500, or about 26%.
No it’s not? It shows $535 for season tickets and $750 per seat donation.
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Looks like between the 35's on the other side, it is $1,600 + ticket.I wonder what kind of benefits they could give to ISU fans that don't live in Iowa
Thanks, this is cool. So our Gold level is now $375 per seat + $600 ticket. Which is between their Bama & Touchdown and at $320/$480 per seat +$525 ticket. Do they have parking passes included? I kinda do wish we had more incremental levels like they do.
Right, but how many of those 8k are there because of it being the social thing to do (friends, tailgating, event-feel, etc,) versus there to intently watch the game and invest in what's actually on the field. I feel like that's a very small percentage.
Something I still dont understand is there is literally NO mention, and No link that I can find for other sources to donate like the Gridiron Club on Cyclones.com. I actually didnt know it still existed until someone on here posted about it a couple months ago. We do a poor job of promoting routes to contribute beyond or in addition to just the Cyclone Club.
It sure seems like there has been a big jump in some of the contributions. I had planned on upping my donation this year, and possibly looking at an RV spot, but with the added requirements for those and the increases in prices, they probably priced me out of both. Will probably increase my donation and add more tickets instead.
Im not complaining I realize it is a needed. I just wonder what other schools are doing to generate such huge numbers. Our fans are great at supporting, but are we just that cheap compared to other fan bases? Do other fan bases have that many more big donors? Or are we not doing things that others are doing to generate the amount of serious money they are. Raising mandatory donations for tickets only goes so far.
No, you get the full write-off. It's only I'd you used the donation as a means to get other benefits directly.I'm donating while being out of state and not purchasing any tickets. If I bought a ticket second hand, would that affect the tax write-off?
I'd up my donation for access to lied rec as well. I used to get the monthly lied rec membership via joining alumni association but no longer live in Ames and wouldn't want the full membership but would do pay as you go on a drop-in basis if NCC opened up the opportunity@brentblum I’d happily donate in exchange for access to gym membership. I’d even pay for the membership. Currently you can do it through the alumni association. I just really want to play racquetball again.