JTS Improvements - Want More
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Because people like you are hell-bent on ******** about everything and hate any decision Jamie makes regardless of what it is. It matters zero what the actual substance of the argument is, you will be against it.
June 2011:
Time-Lapse Video: "The Big Pick" Videoboard Installation - Iowa State University Athletics
AMES, Iowa - Construction crews raised the 357,000-pound video board support structure or "truss" on top of the Jacobson Athletic Building in the early hours...
Aug. 2015:
South End Zone Project Nearing Completion - Iowa State University Athletics
AMES, Iowa ? The 2015 football season is only 10 days away, and the brand new South End Zone project at Jack Trice Stadium is nearly complete.
Bowling in the NEZ wont increase the seating very much.
It will have to first replace 6K+ hillside seats before actually increasing seating.
I've always wondered what it would be like to add upper deck seating but leave the hillsides. Might need to fire up Photoshop to see what that would look like..
This is what happens when our sports teams are good, we get in pointless arguments about screen sizes and hypothetical stadium expansions. I love it!
Maybe Travis Kelce's GF could chip in a few bucks? We do wear the correct colors that she's used to.
To be fair we were not regularly selling out before we bowled in the SEZ. What it did do is increase our income from premium club section seats. But it still increased our ticket sales. We went from selling 95% of 55K seats to selling 95% of 61.5K seats. It was a net gain overall.
We dont need to sell out every game to make an increase worth it, and like I said. A NEZ would have to replace 6k+ seats from the hills before actually increasing capacity. What could be done is with people wanting the premium individividul seats in the stadium or at least more of them, the reduction of seating capacity in those areas could be made up for in the NEZ.
My guess is we wont see much of anything for a long time.
Jamie loves the grass hillside seats. As long as he is around, there will be no change.
That will never happen. You replace the hills with higher value seats, to make the cost feasible. Not to mention building a floating deck like that would be overly expensive for the return, and look really stupid.
People have a weird love for the hills. I have never liked them. Replace them with a family zone/kids zone with special pricing and amenities for families. Then put in other premium areas to increase the value.
Generalize much? I think we can acknowledge that Jamie has done a lot of great things over the years but sometimes he gets cheap and conservative and it can be frustrating. That’s an okay opinion to have. It’s okay to be disappointed when something gets cut back and vent here a little bit. That’s what a random message board is for.
Cheap? JP isn’t perfect but the AD spends literally every dollar they earn. Conservative? CyTown is exhibit A in thinking big. i am grateful for his leadership through very difficult times the last 15 years and the headwinds are still blowing. The AD continues to overachieve given its resources.
"People like you" - love that line. Typical response from a typical keyboard warrior. I'm not in the minority with being disappointed with this decision. Jamie has done some good things for Iowa State but to say the guy is not deserving of any hint of criticism is laughable.
I think the problem is, some people have a hard time understanding budgets and think that money is unlimited. Iowa State has a very finite amount of money they can spend on everything. With the expected upcoming costs this only gets more important.
People want all the money for what they think is important, leaving little to nothing for anything else. Pollard has to balance the importance of every expenditure, and for the most part has done an exceptional job.
We all want more of this or more of that. But unless there is money for it, we cant just spend.
But god damn it! You can’t go cheap on the second scoreboard size!!! He’s clearly a pinchpenny!!!!
What’s your solution to increase donations and managing increased costs, like $22MM for players? What help can you offer JP, besides complaints?
Really? No ****, Sherlock. We’re all Iowa State fans, we all know full well the challenges of funding. Get off your high horse and realize it’s okay to be disappointed about a project that was spec’d, bid and awarded (yes, awarded) less than a year ago getting cut back. Is it the end of the world? No. But JP is not infallible just because he’s done lots of great things.
It’s one complaint about one project. The raging defensiveness about criticism of one decision from a few posters here is weird as ****.
Wow, 4 posts total and making friends at record pace.
