Blame the courts for the bold. The Athletic Departments sure as hell didn't want it to go down the current path.
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Blame the courts for the bold. The Athletic Departments sure as hell didn't want it to go down the current path.
Correct. They wanted, and still want, to keep all the money for themselves.
This has always been the case. Season ticket holders really take a bath on the deal because even in the event you have to miss a game, you almost certainly won't get back face value for your tickets, let alone the cost of the donation it took to get those tickets in the first place. I do most of the selling for my extended family's block of tickets and inevitably as the season goes on we have more to sell, due to more family commitments, wives not liking the colder weather, that kind of thing. So I'm frequently selling a couple here and there for almost every game. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've gotten face value or more back.
In the past you could rationalize that as supporting the program or athletic department. But things are different now; people are going to need to decide if it's a good economic choice for them to subsidize a for-profit enterprise.
I'm not sure I'd have sent it on Jan. 1 but this was not surprising in the least but why getting a 2nd playoff team would have been huge.
It sucks. No one likes more expensive tickets or whatever. Hell, I don't like it when chewing gum costs more. No one likes prices rising. But it is the sad reality. Unless a much bigger grant of rights deal is coming down the line.... this is the correct path at least for the time being.
I'm most concerned about the 10% cut in the sporting budgets cause I really don't know how or where you get that from
It sucks. No one likes more expensive tickets or whatever. Hell, I don't like it when chewing gum costs more. No one likes prices rising. But it is the sad reality. Unless a much bigger grant of rights deal is coming down the line.... this is the correct path at least for the time being.
I'm most concerned about the 10% cut in the sporting budgets cause I really don't know how or where you get that from
So true. This attitude is prevalent here. It really isn't true about how poor we are. I think the lost generation of people from '84ish to '97ish (???) really lost their connection with isu.
Also, prevalent on this board, especially the politics side, is how ****** up Iowa and Iowa State are and it spills into threads like this.
The negatively is really bizaare. The good news is though these people are in the extreme minority, but it has spilled into NCC numbers where we are near the bottom while having the second most living alums?
As someone who is up in Minnesota and can't afford season tickets at this point with 2 kids under 3 I hope whatever happens they continue to make it easy for me to make a monthly donation to the pay the player fund like I do with We Will. It's easy to bake into my budget and I'd prefer it goes to getting and retaining players. It's crazy to me we can't get a bunch of small time donors to do monthly recurring donations like this. Feels like this is something we should excel at
People would post white papers on here why they won't give to WW. At least we are past this stage. Yeah!
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Went down to Austin and caught the men's game there last yr. They do concessions right, little mini restaurants and prices that were very competitive in relationship to the area's eateries.
Even in Boulder on Monday, they have similar areas to what you see at pro stadiums/arenas. Grab your drink from a cooler, maybe food depending on the setup, and go to check out. Much quicker than at Hilton.
Selling beer in Jack Trice could increase revenue by about..... 1%.
You haven’t provided “many” examples here. Again, you can link back your post months ago. It’s pretty simple.
A 90+ million AD budget can’t find away to pay players. Well maybe they can if the budget becomes 110M. Not too crazy to think households can’t find away either.
The fact that we all “buy” the “this is the way it is, accept it or die” is the same reason there is still a rose bowl where 50 or so bowl committee members collectively make millions for no reason. Just got to accept it, cuz Ain’t no one involved that is going to give up one penny of their take. The only answer is more. MOAR!
You know who would complain the most? The people that leave at halftime to drink their "free" beer at their car.
I'm for selling beer in the stadium. It's just not going to be a significant revenue source.
