I guess I was wrong. Gotta love how some voters go from picking you to play in the cotton bowl preseason to not having you ranked at all despite a close win. Rock Iowa and we'll be back in next week
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USC jumping in is a complete joke. Goes to show you that AP voters only look at the name on the chest.
Guys, Jamie is the man. Thank you for all you do JP!
Im sure there are a few aspects for not having it in central campus.
- worried about having all those people from everywhere on central campus and the destruction they might do.
- power is easier to come by probably out at the Hilton
- actually having an open area with a view plus room for everyone might get tricky, with the trees and roads and everything.
- Parking would be a nightmare, there is no parking down there. although parking at the stadium with all this is still going to be a nightmare. I am guessing every parking area in the entire town will be full. I hope they figure out how to shuttle people there, extra Cyrides etc.
- they want to showcase the stadium and athletic areas plus our amazing tailgate, and include all those fans that are just going to stay in that area.
- That area was made to handle tens of thousands of people at one time, and still be stressed to the max, putting it in central campus where it is made to be a park like setting and look beautiful would quickly get overwhelmed.
So here's the view from the walkway at Scheman. If you go down to the ground level you can't even see the stadium at all because of the slight hill at the roadway. So all this is normally parking on gamedays, so that would all be lost then.
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Hawk trolls trying to hammer this, and it’s not a good look.
Hopefully they let people park in the old k mart lot. it will probably be needed.
Here would be the best site possible IMO. The roof of the Alumni Building. Best view you could get.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/A...3156083cc75200!8m2!3d42.0307812!4d-93.6319131
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I like this. Can get the stadium in the shots. Easy access for the student/grass lots ; The show is going to be lit (the crowd certainly will).
I like that plan better than the Scheman area.
They don't like it when JP does his job while Barta just has to keep fighting lawsuits all the time.
They're stupid. Every P5 AD should be emailing contacts at ESPN selling their programs virtues and trying to get Gameday. Honestly, if you're not doing that, you are not doing your job.
I thought Barta was still introducing McCaffery as the new head MBB coach?
Seriously...Barta talked FOREVER at McCaffery's introductory press conference. I was living in Nebraska at the time, and an Omaha radio station was wanting to carry it live. The hosts kept coming back to the audio feed, and Barta was still talking. Became a running joke for the show anytime Iowa basketball was mentioned. "Wait, is Gary Barta still talking? *audio snippet played* Yep." /tangent
While JP is getting GameDay to come to Ames, Barta is settling lawsuits and secretly handing out extensions to Mad Fran.
