I don't know if this issue is so much "statistics."
I think it is more the fact that accounting and corporate finance are forms of witchcraft.
Kudos to Jamie Pollard
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I don't know if this issue is so much "statistics."
I think it is more the fact that accounting and corporate finance are forms of witchcraft.
You're correct, I just wanted to use the quote lol.
I think he did a good job guiding us through a tough financial stretch during the pandemic which a lot of schools really were hurting financially. How many schools were able to successfully get their top coaches to take a temporary paycut to help offset the revenue losses the budget had like we saw at ISU? Also shows how cohesive our coaches are as a group to be able to sacrifice for the good of the whole athletics department too.
A lot of the big money projects we've done a good job fundraising for too and not have to dip into reserve funds to make them happen. When Pollard retires we need to name something after him as he's accomplished more than any AD has ever done at ISU. Gene Smith did a good job here then we had the disaster that was Bruce Van DeVelde before Pollard but I look back at where we were at in the 90's and what we had for facilities when I was a freshman in 98 along with where all our major sport programs were competitively and it is amazing just how much has been done in about 25 years time. I mean the FB team had to practice in the Lied Rec Center for the 2000 Insight Bowl prep and look at where we are at now.
A lot of the big money projects we've done a good job fundraising for too and not have to dip into reserve funds to make them happen. When Pollard retires we need to name something after him as he's accomplished more than any AD has ever done at ISU. Gene Smith did a good job here then we had the disaster that was Bruce Van DeVelde before Pollard but I look back at where we were at in the 90's and what we had for facilities when I was a freshman in 98 along with where all our major sport programs were competitively and it is amazing just how much has been done in about 25 years time. I mean the FB team had to practice in the Lied Rec Center for the 2000 Insight Bowl prep and look at where we are at now.
Football, MBB, Baseball and (maybe) wrestling
Volleyball, WBB and Softball
That's all that is going to be left. Everything else will be a club sport in a regional conference.
If it happens, I’ll hold the funnel on the 50 yard line for your butt chug
Seems crazy to imagine Iowa State without wrestling but...
If it ain't FB and BB of the men's sports then it isn't 100% safe...
Would VB, WBB, and SB be enough scholarships for Title IX purposes?
I'd figure you might still have to have a few more women's teams at that point to balance things out, but they'd be given absolutely zero resources (e.g., CC, T&F, tennis, golf, those sorts).
People give Pollard a lot of **** (me included) but he's worked miracles here and deserves a lot of respect and a statue when it's all said and done.
A statue where he's wearing a sweater with the Bugle on it.
A statue where he's wearing a sweater with the Bugle on it.
We had a stretch where we almost beat Texas like 4 or 5 times in a row in football and were regularly doing better in MBB.....with less than half of the budget. Just incredible.
I wonder if Pollard likes cross country enough to put a few million dollars from his own bank account before he retires. Probably not, but if there was a sport he would personally support, it is cross country.
Baseball?
What an old, tired, and frankly really dumb take. It's just not going to happen.
With pollard here, it'll be CC/track.
Title IX will never allow women's sports to be cut down to those lose numbers.
I wasn't talking about Iowa State. I was talking about the greater Division I.
It has to be proportionate to the student body. So Iowa State is going to be in WAY better shape than your typical university.
I think it has to proportional to the student body. If the student body is 1:1 then the sports opportunities have to be as well. If it is 60:40 the sports opportunities should be 60:40.
Also, we won't be cutting any sports unless the Big 12 votes to change the minimum sports requirements. And even if they do, I wouldn't count on M/W track and cross country getting cut. They are able to cover 6 sports with two pools of scholarships (M/W CC, M/W indoor T&F, M/W outdoor T&F) with just a women's pool and a men's pool of scholarships.
