Williams & Blum: Recapping a crazy 10 days

[FinalFourCy]

Idk how confident I am that this actually changes, but I do believe food science is the next big puzzle piece that will need to be researched more wrt health care.

If we’re serious about solving health care and health issues in this country, food and ag research needs to be just as important for medical research. There’s so many diseases and chronic illnesses that can be managed if not prevented by better nutrition instead of inventing another pill.

Only if the AAU country club wants it to be, or needs to it be considered to add its desired schools

Med schools at places like ASU, Michigan St, KU, IU, even Penn St, bring in equal or less NIH funding than Kentucky, Arkansas, Cincinnati, etc

 

[kickout]

He's getting compensated very well for the size of org. he's running

I didn't say he was poorly compensated. You kinda proved my point saying it's thankless. You think he should be doing it for free? Why don't you start your own collective if it's so easy?

If you don't like the NIL era, don't support it. That's fine. No need to throw shade at folks trying to make a sandwich out of ****

 

[goody2012]

I didn't say he was poorly compensated. You kinda proved my point saying it's thankless. You think he should be doing it for free? Why don't you start your own collective if it's so easy?

If you don't like the NIL era, don't support it. That's fine. No need to throw shade at folks trying to make a sandwich out of ****

The "thanks" he is getting is being compensated. I certainly did not prove your point.

 

[Marcelason78]

He's getting compensated very well for the size of org. he's running

What is ‘very well’?

 

[goody2012]

What is ‘very well’?

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[brentblum]

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Just as an FYI, I’m glad this is posted because absolutely is fair to be out there. I don’t get any health insurance, retirement, life insurance or any other benefits. I am a contract employee, and I have to pay for all of those things for my family. I’m not arguing it’s fair or not. That is up for our board to decide, but I just wanted to share the information. I’ll also add that revenue number listed is from 2023. In 2024 thanks to all of you We raised over $6.2 million up from $1.7.

 

[FinalFourCy]

Just as an FYI, I’m glad this is posted because absolutely is fair to be out there. I don’t get any health insurance, retirement, life insurance or any other benefits. I am a contract employee, and I have to pay for all of those things for my family. I’m not arguing it’s fair or not. That is up for our board to decide, but I just wanted to share the information.

Terribly under-compensated

Having sufficient NIL greatly determines success of an endeavor that does $120+ million in cashflow (but far more in impact to university and state), and in keeping historically good coaches in the run up to the most critical time in department history.

The responsibility for that doesn’t even come with health insurance or 401k. Blum could get more doing busy work in the corporate world

Imo Blum will go down having created more value than JP, who largely just didn’t **** things up, like conference payout and ticket price inflation…although we better hope that CyTown changes that

 

[kickout]

Maybe I'm in minority. Without JP....we'd likely already be SDSU or Oregon State. AKA a zombie banished to purgatory.

Blum is comically under-compensated for value creation. Can't fathom what goes through people's head when they say he has an easy gig. Incredibly stressful job.

Again, the situation is awful right now. It very well could go sideways despite the best efforts of a lot of folks. Somehow a vocal group on this website craps on the people trying to help the situation. Absolute madness

 

[brentblum]

Terribly under-compensated

Having sufficient NIL greatly determines success of an endeavor that does $120+ million in cashflow (but far more in impact to university and state), and in keeping historically good coaches in the run up to the most critical time in department history.

The responsibility for that doesn’t even come with health insurance or 401k. Blum could get more doing busy work in the corporate world

Imo Blum will go down having created more value than JP, who largely just didn’t **** things up, like conference payout and ticket price inflation…although we better hope that CyTown changes that

I’m not in JP’s ballpark. Iowa State is Iowa State because of him. And for what it’s worth JP, his team and I are all working together to solve this.

 

[CYEATHAWK]

I think Blum is doing a thankless job. He's in a rock and hard place and almost powerless to wiggle out of it. Others posters are correct, somehow the fan has been tasked with bearing the brunt of these increases when it should be the TV people, the university (they benefit from exposure of athletics), city of Ames.

People are rightfully lashing back and opting out of the NIL era. Blum, CW, many others don't want to go down without a fight. Soldiers in an ideological war they didn't ask for.

I have zero idea how this shakes out for ISU long term. I can see us pulling out and retaining something similar to current status or I could see us moving down a level--whatever that level is is even undetermined. Even if we maintain something similar to the status quo, at what cost? No track, XC, WBB? That's not college athletics, that's lipstick on the Iowa cubs and Iowa wolves. Some sort of glorified semi-pro league.

Appreciate all the work CW and Blum, JP, and others do for the fans. The people bashing them can go kick rocks.

"Thankless job"......"Rock and a hard place and almost powerless to wiggle out of it"? Is he storming the beaches of Normandy without a weapon?

He is fund raising, that's it and that's all. Nothing wrong with it...........it just is what it is. If he gets a couple of sideways comments from people he has never met........who cares. It's the internet. That happens from time to time and been happening since the internet was invented.

He'll be alright no matter what happens.

 

[SolterraCyclone]

The "thanks" he is getting is being compensated. I certainly did not prove your point.

How much do you make and how much revenue are you responsible for in your job. I’d like to determine if you’re over- or under-compensated

 

[goody2012]

How much do you make and how much revenue are you responsible for in your job. I’d like to determine if you’re over- or under-compensated

Less/More

 

[kickout]

"Thankless job"......"Rock and a hard place and almost powerless to wiggle out of it"? Is he storming the beaches of Normandy without a weapon?

He is fund raising, that's it and that's all. Nothing wrong with it...........it just is what it is. If he gets a couple of sideways comments from people he has never met........who cares. It's the internet. That happens from time to time and been happening since the internet was invented.

He'll be alright no matter what happens.

"if he gets a few sideways comments from someone he never met who cares"

Let me translate that for folks that don't speak *******: "I'm gonna ***** and complain about the pettiest stuff possible and get butthurt when someone calls me out for being a gaping *******"

 

[goody2012]

How much do you make and how much revenue are you responsible for in your job. I’d like to determine if you’re over- or under-compensated

And btw, I'm not interested in discussing the merits of Brent's salary. I couldn't care less. All I wanted to point out was it's not "thankless"....

 

[FinalFourCy]

"Thankless job"......"Rock and a hard place and almost powerless to wiggle out of it"? Is he storming the beaches of Normandy without a weapon?

He is fund raising, that's it and that's all. Nothing wrong with it...........it just is what it is. If he gets a couple of sideways comments from people he has never met........who cares. It's the internet. That happens from time to time and been happening since the internet was invented.

He'll be alright no matter what happens.

If you need to measure the job against D-Day to sell its appeal, that’s quite telling

It’s below market rate for an above average amount of undesirable externalities.

 

[CycloneDaddy]

How much do you make and how much revenue are you responsible for in your job. I’d like to determine if you’re over- or under-compensated

Im way over compensated. I did set a new course record on Golden Tee today at work though.

 

[goody2012]

If you need to measure the job against D-Day to sell its appeal, that’s quite telling

It’s below market rate for an above average amount of undesirable externalities.

I can tell you with certainty it is not below market rate for a non-profit fundraising role.

 

[FinalFourCy]

I can tell you with certainty it is not below market rate for a non-profit fundraising role.

That’s a you problem

And Blum’s industry comp isn’t really non-profits

 

[goody2012]

That’s a you problem

Sure

 

[Nor'MidWester]

Why is there no talk of adding an NIL $$$ cap per sport? I am worried that D1 teams without a football program (Creighton, Gonzaga, etc) would have a huge advantage in MBB and WBB NIL spending. Maybe they already do, so not much would change.

Maybe they need to split tv deals between football and basketball nationwide so there is an actual value the sport can look at and say ok this is actually what basketball players are worth. Not sure how that would work for all the non-revenue sports but yeah