POLLARD'S STATEMENT ON STATE FUNDING

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March 23, 2010

Dear Cyclone fans,
Over the past several days, many of you have read reports about the Board of Regents proposed policy to substantially reduce or eliminate state funding for college athletics at the University of Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University. The purpose of this letter is to share several important facts related to this proposed policy change.
The proposal will actually have a minimal impact on our athletics program because we have already reduced our reliance on state funding significantly in the past five years. As you can see in the chart, we have reduced our state support from nearly 12% of the total budget ($3.4 million) in 2005 to 3.7% of the total budget ($1.6 million) in 2010. In addition, we plan to continue reducing our dependence on state funding further in the next several years.
Despite the significant reduction in state support for our athletics program the last five years, we have been able to increase our overall annual athletics funding during that same time period from $28 million to $42 million. We have also invested more than $50 million in new and renovated facilities and have significantly improved our overall academic and athletics competitiveness. These positive gains are a result of your continued support of our institution and athletics program.
On behalf of all 450 Iowa State University student-athletes, coaches and staff, we simply say thank you for your generosity.
Go Cyclones!
Sincerely,
Jamie Pollard
Director of Athletics



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And ticket price increases and good fan attendance are one of the main reasons we can say that. We're paying the freight.
 

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I was excited to get the e-mail and was very pleased with the good news. This is something we can all take pride in. Great job Cyclone Fans!!!
 

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YOU'RE FORGETTING THE ONES WHO ARE GOING TO STOP CONTRIBUTING, NOT BUY TICKETS AND THEN **** AND MOAN, ABOUT WHY ISU CAN'T COMPETE.

AND THEY WONDER WHY.....BUT HEY THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAN CONTINUE TO FINANCIALLY AND MORALLY SUPPORT OUR TEAMS
 
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Say what you want about some of his coaching decisions but he has handled the finance portion of his job extremely well.
 

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It's worth noting that the increased revenue and budget has occurred while the on the field/court product hasn't exactly been it's best.
 

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This is why Pollard has job security. All of those folks calling for his head need to read this and realize that Iowa State would be foolish to fire a guy like JP.
 

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Still curious, was JP the guy that wrote the very poor, incentive laden contract for McD, a coach who begged to get hired in the first place?
 

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Still curious, was JP the guy that wrote the very poor, incentive laden contract for McD, a coach who begged to get hired in the first place?

Yes. But saying McD "begged" to get the job is a mischaracterzation and what's wrong with a contract with incentives?

Even if your post is entirely and 100% true does it outweigh everything else? What would you recommend doing with him?
 

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Still curious, was JP the guy that wrote the very poor, incentive laden contract for McD, a coach who begged to get hired in the first place?

There isn't a coach in the country that doesn't have a ton of incentives in their contract. Not to mention every single pro athlete and most CEO's.
 

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University Support falling. There's a shocker. Not. Highest enrollment in years, but we'll keep lowering our support of sports. Nice job paying for your marketing, Iowa State.
 

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University Support falling. There's a shocker. Not. Highest enrollment in years, but we'll keep lowering our support of sports. Nice job paying for your marketing, Iowa State.

Yup. I wish the University would wake up and realize what a good athletics program could do for it.
 

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Still curious, was JP the guy that wrote the very poor, incentive laden contract for McD, a coach who begged to get hired in the first place?

Yeah, he did write that contract. Basically, he has said that to get the coaches that we want, he has to get creative. I have no doubt that if ISU had a bigger budget, those extension clauses wouldn't have been in there because ISU could have competed with KSU and whoever else was after GMac.

I guess I don't blame Pollard for going all out to sign the coach that he thought was the right guy. Problem is, he was wrong and GMac wasn't the right guy, so now we're screwed. IF for some reason GMac bolts back to UNI and ISU ends up looking for a coach, I would hope that Pollard would form a small committee to interview candidates:

Pollard
Heft
Gary Thompson
Jake Sullivan
Diante Garrett
Scott Christopherson

Back to the initial topic, great job by JP decreasing the state funding. I figured when the BOR came out with that stance, Pollard would already be two steps ahead of them with a plan. And it wouldn't have surprised me to see ISU completely self sufficient in 3 years no matter if the BOR came out and said something or not. I wonder with JWRSquawk will complain about when ISU is 100% self sufficient.
 

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University Support falling. There's a shocker. Not. Highest enrollment in years, but we'll keep lowering our support of sports. Nice job paying for your marketing, Iowa State.
Uh, isn't that what the article is talking about? The University support category is the state funding. That's what we're trying to decrease.
 

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University Support falling. There's a shocker. Not. Highest enrollment in years, but we'll keep lowering our support of sports. Nice job paying for your marketing, Iowa State.

Maybe I'm not clear on what "University Support" consists of. I read it as the amount of revenue the athletic department gets from the University. (taxpayers)

I thought this is what JP was touting as a success, that they had reduced their university support. I didn't think it was a bad thing.

Am I wrong?