The university should speak about future plans, not an outsider. I'm too lazy to do some research, but I would be shocked if ISU is sitting on "loads of money" vs our peers....
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He wasn't speaking on behalf of the university. And "loads of cash" may mean that there are alumni lined up to donate if/when needed.
Pretty sure that's what I saw in Boulder a few weeks ago.
They also have a beer garden or two, which actually kept people out of their seats.
Pollard has already talk about this publicly...
I made a thread months ago about it..
https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/th...trition-and-player-performance-center.230532/
PLEASE demolish that Jetson's ab oration. It has zero architectural taste and only tarnishes the SEZ.
We (average joe fans) are cheap and accustom to funding at a low P5 level, so imo it’s a little valid to think the message should be that we need everyone to invest more if we want more. Nevertheless...
I’m a big fan of the overall direction JP keeps us on, but is he the one that has the final call on design of these things, or is that up to the major donor and current staff? Mostly just curious, as JP doesn’t strike me as great at those things. (Although much better than the decision of the Jake)
The quote wasnt vs our peers was it? I havent listened but no one else has quoted that. It was just a pile of money. With respect to what we are used to is how I take that. Not a pile of money like Notre Dame.
Is that what he said? You can have the capability as a Cyclone community to get some of these needs done, but that doesn’t mean you’re saying we have more money than our peers.
I floated a concept to JP for the SEZ to which he responded positively, but already had gone too far with the existing plans. A vertical multistory glass walled building where ALL of the glass is an integrated video board (see LG's newest see-through OLED). The multistory would be all press, offices, and club seating. For a cold weather climate, it'll take away the 'empty' upper corners making for a dramatically more intimidating environment. It'll have a walk through concourse, bar area, etc. John Madden says there's no better seating than the endzone. This would be all time coup for that.
I think Sage meant to say "Silos" of money and not "Piles". It seems ISU has indeed discovered the genetics to grow a money tree and at one of the ISU Farms they have over 200 acres of money trees currently being harvested.
Good times ahead for ISU
Good times ahead for ISU
As a parent of a 2-year old (so far) I was looking forward to the babysitting setting. I'd come to more games if there was a built-in sitter at Jack Trice.
We could call it Clone Care. Or Cy's Cytting Cyrvice.
How are you going to get "on the fence" people to give money when someone (close to the AD) is on record of saying "we're sitting on loads of money" no matter what the context is?
Two points to this: Using the words "sitting on a pile of cash" is not something someone on the outside should say and you won't hear any AD's saying that. Secondly, I would caution using this word when our peers probably have more cash than us.
I'm against someone outside of the program going on radio saying the athletic department is sitting on a "pile of cash". Just my opinion...
That's more of a Shelbyville idea.
Just listened. Sage basically pointed out that there are lots of big-money projects out there for the football facilities and a few million extra won't be a big deal if we should need to pay Campbell.