Yes, but that's sort a Utopian view of philanthropy- it doesn't work like that, especially in the current environment. Heck, the old 80/20 adage where 80% of your fundraising dollars come from 20% of your donor base is being challenged. It's closer to 90/10 with fewer low to mid-level donors.
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Yes, but that's sort a Utopian view of philanthropy- it doesn't work like that, especially in the current environment. Heck, the old 80/20 adage where 80% of your fundraising dollars come from 20% of your donor base is being challenged. It's closer to 90/10 with fewer low to mid-level donors.
I know that there are dance companies who are doing routines to prep for competition, but I don't know enough about it to know if there actually will be any!
25K was aggressive, but Jamie also stated that he realistically thought the number may drop to about 20K after the plan was announced and seating assignments were sent out. I think even if he went with 1/2 season tickets and had 25K/2 for each game there would be many that would still object. I'm sure there is a reason he picked the number he did. They did a lot of work to get ready including reseating all 25K to maximize social distancing.
We'll know JP is serious if he gets rid of mens and womens track and field. My guess is he'd tear down CY Stephens and build a casino there before that happens though.
Track is one of the most illogical sports to get rid of though as you would essentially be cutting 4 sports as many of the athletes are both indoor and outdoor participants. That would make us non compliant to be in the Big 12 with too few teams.
Edit: sorry non compliant to be FBS and on the cusp of Div 1.
JP just needs to completely sell out for a few years and put up tons of ads all over the field and in the stands.......
I've heard the NFL is putting up tarps over the seats and selling ad space on them.... so why not do that this year like this......
Our uniforms could look like this......
I've heard the NFL is putting up tarps over the seats and selling ad space on them.... so why not do that this year like this......
Our uniforms could look like this......
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For sure, its a very pie in the sky idea. The numbers surprised me, thats mainly why I posted it.
Seems he could make Schemann into a casino, less expensively and quicker to generate revenue. All could stop on the way to Bball game and drop a few hundred in slot machines.We'll know JP is serious if he gets rid of mens and womens track and field. My guess is he'd tear down CY Stephens and build a casino there before that happens though.
and have a few cocktails!! Lots of rooms and open spaces.
ISU Athletics? Of course.
Iowa State University of Science and Technology? Not remotely close. Tuition, fees and state appropriations are something like $750 million. Throw in non-athletic donations and of course research dollars and non-athletics revenues dwarf athletics.
People that are big college sports fans understand that CFB is big business. However, sports fans also drastically overstate the financial importance of sports to a big state university like ISU. This is why you see Presidents and Chancellors involved in these decisions, and why many of them are erring on the side of caution.
In this situation, you plan for the worst. If it turns out better, then good. Hope is not a plan.
If we can't have fans at football games outdoors, there is no way fans will be at basketball games. Eliminating sports doesn't really generate much immediate relief. Ticket prices for all events will likely need to go up next year. That will be the one way to get cash back in the department. Covid sucks.
It's what 1/2 of people wanted. So be it I guess. We tried.
I am actually being serious with this question - it is outdoors though right? I thought the risk of spreading outdoors was extremely low?
Well, everyone that was too terrified to wear a mask in the grocery store got exactly what they wanted.
His letter provides "several" options, not all options being looked at.
It begs the question, why weren't all the options being looked at discussed? I don't pretend to have the answer but it does feel like the most controversial options were provided to generate a reaction.
But you are discounting how valuable having sports, and more important successfull sports, is to the university in terms of enrollment numbers and overall name recognition of the university. Sports programs are worth FAR more than budget numbers in terms of advertising for your university.
Outdoors with masks...according to the science the spread would be essentially zero.
I definitely agree. By the same token, they will find out that it's easy to shut things down, but hard to start things back up.
