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    *** Official IOWA STATE vs #19 Kansas State Game(Day) Thread ***

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    STANZ: Thoughts on Tyrese Hunter's transfer, ISU and an NIL collective and more

    This is a good, and valid, point. What I didn't articulate well was that the NCAA could have been proactive in the sharing of resources better than they were doing and either didn't, or failed to act in a timely fashion. Now, it would surprise me if the NCAA is even an entity within a decade...
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    STANZ: Thoughts on Tyrese Hunter's transfer, ISU and an NIL collective and more

    This is such a great piece. Thanks for the honest thoughts Stanz. Division 1 athletics as we knew it is over, at least for the revenue sports. Over the years as I have listened to the arguments for and against paying players, I always had two thoughts: 1. It is wildly hypocritical for the...
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    Lincoln coach to face possible charges for yelling

    Great response. I scratch my head at the need for accountability in high school athletics for officials, other than the game/season evaluations that occur from coaches and supervisors which can end up in less games or removal from working varsity or upper level games. Many of the anti-referee...
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    Buying a car sight unseen

    I've bought two cars this way through dealerships, and sold one this way myself. I bought a car from a dealership in DSM (I live in CR). It was a "mutual gamble" as they agreed to a number on my trade without seeing my old 4Runner and I was buying their certified late model used. Worked out...
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    Basketball Walk-Ons

    This has to be my favorite thread on CF in forever. More bios please.
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    Response from Gazette sports editor

    I am a Cyclone fan. I am an employee of the Gazette. Candidly, the role I have here would allow me to dictate coverage if that is what I wanted to do. But that would be a bad idea for a variety of reasons. To first address the market research, every three years we do a fairly significant...
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    Vacation and Sick Time Question

    One thing that I don't think has been mentioned is that unused PTO is carried on the company books as an expense. In essence, debt. Those large balances in companies with large employees become a serious drag on EBITDA. That's why it's extremely difficult to find a public company that doesn't...
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    Iowa High School TV Dispute

    Seems like a good time to come off of my 4+ year posting sabbatical to share some information on a topic that I actually know something about... The DMR article does a good job explaining much of the TV side of this thing. However, there is even more to this story than meets the eye. So as...
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    Tell me about Cedar Rapids

    Trigger is pretty much right on (except that the flood was in 2008, but things are indeed recovering pretty well). Schools here are all pretty good, with Linn-Mar and Prairie (College Community) growing the fastest. If you've got a family, this is a great place to be. Good schools enough...
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    Mark Farley Disses Iowa St.

    First, thanks for the civil reply. Wasn't sure what sort of response that would generate. To your point, I've got plenty of pride. I grew up in Cedar Rapids in the 70's and 80's as about the only ISU fan in a sea of Hawk fans (obviously). I took a lot of abuse, some good natured, some not...
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    Mark Farley Disses Iowa St.

    This might be one of the most embarrassing threads ever in these forums. It should be titled "Watch ISU fans sound like Hawk fans". Calling someone else "little brother?". Calling for us NOT to schedule an in-state school because the risk/reward isn't right? Talking about rooting for Iowa...
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    Principle Charity Classic leaving Glen Oaks

    So, you're passing judgment on a private citizens choosing to use their property the way they want to? Interesting. If this is such a big deal to the Des Moines community, perhaps the city and county should step up and host it at a municipal course - or pay Glen Oaks to host it. What...
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    Verizon Wireless & Mexico

    Just got back from Riviera Maya last week and this is true. Received a text from Verizon upon powering my phone up when we landed there with this information, as well as indicating that all calls would be 99 cents per minute. The resort we stayed at had wired internet in all rooms, so I...
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    Is the Baylor game going to be on TV in Cedar Rapids?

    You might be one step better than me, I can only get 9 (or 9.1) on my DTV guide. They don't carry 9.2 or 9.3 on their DirecTV menu/guide, I have to get both of those channels over the air (Mediacom and ImOn do carry all three). The way my Samsung TV's are connected is that I have to switch...
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    Is the Baylor game going to be on TV in Cedar Rapids?

    Some good questions here. In response to #'s above... 1. Your thought process is correct (and I was actually thinking gross dollars for this illustration), though in this specific case the costs of the content are quite similar. When the university comes to us via Cyclone Sports Properties...
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    Is the Baylor game going to be on TV in Cedar Rapids?

    This is correct. Of the programming we will have on those three channels during that window, the ISU game will net us the FOURTH most money. Yes, the sponsors we have for the weather during that two hour block we are pre-empting would have paid us more money than the commercials we show during...
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    Des Moines Register to start charging for Online usage

    I don't post much but this is an interesting topic. I work in Cedar Rapids for the Gazette and KCRG, so I'm pretty heavily immersed in this issue. Of the posts so far, most are somewhere between spot-on and "correct at one period of time". Newspapers did indeed underestimate the value and...
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    Dish Network or DirectTv?

    My perspective is similar to a few other previous posts: *Was a DTV subscriber from 1999 until 2004, included three moves where they came out and hooked us up for free. However, the installer on the last job was awful and couldn't get one of the TV's to work. *So, we switched to Dish in late...
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    Stubhub Fees

    That's nice, but it ignores the original point of the OP - charging what amounts to a 25% premium on a transaction for which you don't carry inventory is extremely high. (I won't go so far as to say 'excessive' because the market ultimately determines that). I would also like to see the...
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