It's just press box envy, and the inability to do basic spatial reasoning.
Pollard: big announcement coming soon
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It's just press box envy, and the inability to do basic spatial reasoning.
This is all really fascinating but I wonder:
1. How do Ames-area businesses react to having a new major competitor with the university's backing?
2. The tailgating scene here is a really big part of what makes the football experience special, particularly given that the football history isn't great. I really want to see the plan for where all that parking goes and what the new game day set up looks like.
Finally, I'm not a basketball season ticket holder but I usually hit a couple games each year. And that walk to/from the far parking lots down by Jack Trice is usually brutal. So once all those parking lots are gone, have fun with that, basketball season ticket holders.
1. How do Ames-area businesses react to having a new major competitor with the university's backing?
2. The tailgating scene here is a really big part of what makes the football experience special, particularly given that the football history isn't great. I really want to see the plan for where all that parking goes and what the new game day set up looks like.
Finally, I'm not a basketball season ticket holder but I usually hit a couple games each year. And that walk to/from the far parking lots down by Jack Trice is usually brutal. So once all those parking lots are gone, have fun with that, basketball season ticket holders.
1.) Hopefully that the days of the tail wagging the dog are over.
2.) I’m confident the AD will sort that out
There are liability reasons why ISU is willing to police the people who bring their own booze as opposed to being the ones that sell it. Just a nightmare in waiting from the AD's standpoint.
I am with you. Pollard is going to be under pressure to monetize every square foot of that area just to keep up with the Joneses and the risk for it is the very thing that makes ISU special: accessibility for everyone. Being able to get up close to JTS is fairly unique and a contributor to making ISU a fanbase that is envied by other schools as their attendance declines.
Lou McCollough? The same guy who was the driver to building the new stadium? The same lazy AD who hired Earle Bruce and Johnny Orr? That Lou McCollough?
Johnny was pure luck. Earle said he went into Lou to see if he could bump his pay to make up some of the 10k difference that OSU offerred. Lou didn’t think anybody would turn down OSU no matter what so he never tried to keep him.
Not arguing any of that. Is JP also lazy for losing Kindler, refusing to allow Sanderson donor access that Dresser now has and for losing Fred? Same game, no?
People leave, AD's get lucky and unlucky. Lou did get the stadium done- none of this thread exists w/o Lou getting us moved from Clyde Williams
Did you just mention two non-revenue sports? No one cares. JP wasn’t lazy, he was wise in those cases.
He got Fred, so it’s a wash on that one.
Moving targets to protect JP. Dumb (I am a JP fan BTW).
As for olympic sports- yeah I hate not winning NCAA Championships.
Anyway- carry on with the thread on this exciting news while disparaging the guy who built the stadium that we are building all of this around.
Stapleton is the guy who got that going. Had to agree to get the ball rolling to get the Iowa ISU game back.
They really should've built the practice facility right below the press box with support structures for a future press box on top. That was a huge missed opportunity to build a 2 for 1 building.
They already sell alcohol in the stadium.
Besides, I dont buy this liability boogie monster that gets brought up. If it's such a risk why do they do it at most sports venues now, including many college stadiums?
