I think it’s scholarships. But if we kill one womens we probably need to kill a mens.
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So you know it would be golf. Wrestling has been having good fundraising but most of it is outside the AD.
Yes, when there are price increases and no enhancements for any but the biggest donors, the value goes down. I got MBB tickets in 2021 when we moved back to Ames. I hadn’t been in Hilton in over 30 years. The first game was like stepping back in time. The only changes were Johnny’s, a better scoreboard, and clone cones. However, since the price increases haven’t reduced the demand for tickets, it seems this will continue.
Maybe sell beer at Hilton events? I don't think that would interfere with Johnny's since that would be for the larger donors and not us heathens. That would also give you a test run.
My best guess on wrestling is that it won't be an NCAA sponsored sport or have an NCAA Championship within in the next 10 years. There are so few DI programs and it would be real easy to make it a club sport with a championship run by it's own governing body since most programs are funded like Iowa State is with outside dollars.
Yes, I agree that basically $10 a game is pretty cheap. However, when you compare the $199 to the following:
Iowa - $210 (renewal) and $225 (new)
UCONN - $225
South Carolina - $225
LSU - $200
Why blaze past the $225 level, especially when $50 a season is not even a blip in the $20M shortfall...7,000 season tickets x $50 is $350,000. Simply charge the sales tax ($12) and move on. Weird to single women's basketball out.
Thanks for posting. People can complain all they want that’s fine, but if you want competitive basketball and football we have to pony up. If people have more tickets wouldn’t have to go up. Fact is, this fan base doesn’t give as much as the others in the Big 12, as that link shows. As that shows we were dead last in the old big 12. It’s better now with more even set of peers, but still it’s lagging..jpeg?auto=webp)
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Always thought this was interesting once you scroll down to the part about donors (data is from 2019)
This is what it costs. It’s just reality.
They have actually added programs in the last several years.
I personally think that they would be open to that if the concourses were bigger. Once those are expanded, there are a lot more options that they could pursue. Right now, it's pretty tight in there without big beer lines.
Just get rid of wrestling, it's weird anyways.
This cheap ass fan base. We are lucky as all hell to have landed Campbell and Otz, let’s be real, anyone who hires people knows luck is a major piece. WE ARE INCREDIBLY LUCKY to have the coaches we have. Put up AND shut up it’s time to get there. As Pollard said, they’re asking for what they need not what they can get.
Maybe because WBB NIL is starting to demand money. When you are already losing a ton, and now you are supposed to pay players??? Their fans need the hurt and not just Football basically carrying the water for them.
Why not Cross Country? No one is running 5 miles to tell anyone anything. You just drive you car, ride a bike, take public transit or just freaking call them. No one needs to run that far anymore.
Well, that is happening. What kids are leaving and making now is WAY above what I left college at. Inflation isn't eating away at those levels.
Unpopular opinion. Would like to see a broad range of arts and athletics available to students of a liberal arts university. Not minor league football and basketball teams with a school attached.
https://iowastatedaily.com/290345/news/athletic-department-budget-team-revenues-ticket-sales-and-more/#:~:text=Women's%20sports%20expenses%20increased%20from,by%20gender%20were%20%2452.99%20million.
Womens basketball needs to cut some expense. $4mil negative
Womens basketball needs to cut some expense. $4mil negative
As much as I hate having to bear the burden of these huge price increases, I don't blame Jamie for having to do what must be done to keep ISU competitive. There was a part of his message, though, that felt a little incongruent.
It's not a big deal, but Pollard states that "We have prided ourselves on not asking you for what we can get..." but then he later says they are raising women's basketball tickets prices 25% in part due to demand. Isn't setting ticket prices based on demand the same as "asking you for what we can get"?
Again, not a big deal, but it just seemed a little contradictory.
It's not a big deal, but Pollard states that "We have prided ourselves on not asking you for what we can get..." but then he later says they are raising women's basketball tickets prices 25% in part due to demand. Isn't setting ticket prices based on demand the same as "asking you for what we can get"?
Again, not a big deal, but it just seemed a little contradictory.
You can find that at your D3 schools. Unfortunately, D1 isn't going back and a lot of schools consider this a huge marketing tool.
