Facilities and financial update from Jamie Pollard
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Is Joe on here??? Hey bud, the lock wasn’t bad, you just swung your arm wildly to catch your watch. The truth after 30 years.
On the roof is another thing. Always a wind up there, think we were supposed to be fired if ever up there. One dude was crazy and loved going up there, not my cup of tea after the first time.
It is windy but a great view. Didn’t like being on the roof of CY. Most fun was riding on the Zamboni and waving to my fellow ushers
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Never went up on CY, Hilton was enough for me. Crazy foreman that took us up there liked to stand with his toes at the edge. I think I did more jobs at Hilton, was offered to be a foreman at CY but was graduating soon and was content ad an AF.
What kind of perks do you want for the donation level you are currently at? I'm genuinely curious.
I donate at Cardinal and will increase to the $750 to stay there. My two tickets are in non-donor section because they are row 3 and I'm sitting around friends. Normally, only one of my two is used unless I give it to another friend or coworker, or I can't go at all and sell them both. Based on the "benefits" listed, the only one I use is buying the football parking pass. Couldn't tell you the last time I used any of the membership discounts. Beyond the parking pass, any other benefits are pretty worthless to me.
I think the up riggers used to go up there for a fresh air break quite often during load ins. Sadly, I was usually a down rigger so I rarely got up on the roof. Never made it up on Stephens roof.
I was always a grunter, so I rarely went into the ceiling. I set meat racks and chairs besides unloading. At the end Michelle would let me work locker room detail. Got to meet the acts but it could be long boring days. Better than the time I had to guard the locked door. Think that was Loverboy. Nobody coming in because it’s locked and no one is leaving that door.
The reality is, this was not possible until ISU was reasonably selling out JTS, which is really only a very recent occurrence. When tickets on the secondary market are selling for more than $80 the arithmetic turns to the AD's favor as opposed to when they are selling for $25.
I've always thought that the entertainment district idea was best if done more north and west as possible. If they included some facets of it right at Lincoln Way and Beach, a larger student component (housing/restaurants/bars) could be incorporated for more consistent non-event business.
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Anyone else see this put out by UCF? We're going to need to juice up our fundraising in the new Big 12. We're dead last including the new schools. (BYU isn't included).
Anyone else see this put out by UCF? We're going to need to juice up our fundraising in the new Big 12. We're dead last including the new schools. (BYU isn't included).
Football drives all athletics fundraising.
ISU has had the least amount of sustained winning in the conference. It is critical to our future that we continue to do well on the field.
UCF has the potential to be a monster if they commit to it. They have clearly identified the requirements. There is no reason ISU should not be at least where KSU and WVU are at, which would still be lower half...
Or Tx Tech, the average gift is low but more of them are doing it, we have more living alumni than them...
Had to laugh at the request for $5 million donors: “if you have 5 million to give, what are you waiting for? ...”
Anyone else see this put out by UCF? We're going to need to juice up our fundraising in the new Big 12. We're dead last including the new schools. (BYU isn't included).
But they don't call me. What do I get for my donation? They ask for too much.
Anyone else see this put out by UCF? We're going to need to juice up our fundraising in the new Big 12. We're dead last including the new schools. (BYU isn't included).
6,000 donors - pitiful. Thank you to those that give. To the rest of you, quit making excuses and write the check.
Come on folks.
These donation figures always are presented as averages. Median figures could be more telling. Just have not seen presented as such.
Jamie has a lot of good ideas.This is not one of them.
Yeah let’s just stand pat while the world around us changes. That should work out well.
