Dangerous if he sees that as his reality, or he blames others for not letting that happen. Could be Iowans, or people with certain political beliefs, or people of a different race or religion.
Clown U facing a $147 million budget deficit through 2031; will postpone Hilton Coliseum renovation & construction of new Wrestling Practice Facility
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I suspect his mother is ashamed of him and his father badly beat him.
You are probably correct.
You'll notice his two newest handles "poorloser" and "sourgrapes".
People playing with a full deck don't desperately create multiple handles over and over again.
Ah yes, our resident troll—posting 24/7 like he’s got a contractual obligation to annoy strangers. At this point, I’m convinced he’s just some guy parked in a nursing home rec room, hunched over a sticky Dell laptop, pounding away at the keyboard between tapioca pudding cups.
Which school has had the better men’s basketball and football teams the past five years? Just asking?
NCAA could drop the minimum number of sports required for DI status and help a lot of schools out.
Which school has played in their conference championship football game in the last 5 years.
“Which school’s better? Iowa in football, ISU in basketball. But only one’s staring down a $147 million deficit by 2030 — maybe they can hang the Final Four banner in the foreclosure auction.”
Nobody is forcing these schools to pay the full 20 million.
Nobody is forcing anyone to have any sports teams. There is no law that says a school has to have sports.
I think they should install a ginormous electronic sign by JT that is like a debt counter that shows their deficit in real time.
Football, Iowa. Basketball, Iowa State. Let’s not forget Iowa State was gifted a bowl win last year because Cam Ward pulled himself out of the game at halftime.
Iowa has won 3 of the last 5, probably should have won 4 of the last 5.
They didn't play in 2020, and people forget that ISU team lost 3 games and got blown out at home by a Sun Belt team. ISU fans make a big deal about beating a 4-2 team with a depleted roster in a COVID year
FBS Schools: Must sponsor a minimum of 16 sports, including football.
FCS and Division I Subdivision Schools (no football): Must sponsor a minimum of 14 sports.
Iowa sponsors 20 sports (7 men's and 13 women's).
Clown U sponsors the minimum 16 sports:
--> Men (6): Football, Basketball, Xcountry, Golf, T&F, Wrestling
--> Women (10): Basketball, Xcountry, Golf, Gymnastics, Soccer, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, T&F, Volleyball
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As much as they are clowns in Ames. It’s kind of remarkable, really—how a smaller state can sustain two major athletic programs that also happen to be members of the AAU. Balancing big-time sports and top-tier research isn’t easy, especially in a part of the country where that combination isn’t exactly common.
AAU is a joke in 2025. You people are evidently unaware of what’s going on in your state and at the universities.
Iowa State concludes its AAU membership
April 21, 2022
I would just drop those requirements.
we are now funding kids driving Lamborghini’s to practice so just stop pretending.
the non profit making sports can play DIII locally.
You do the same when you buy those Taylor Swift tickets. Supporting billionaires.
Yes, but my Taylor Swift ticket doesn’t have a portion stripped off to fund the local gutter band to fly to the east coast to perform in a garage.
part of my football ticket is supporting rowing, which is a joke.
Far from a joke. It remains an important group.
ISU left by choice because they felt AAU was favoring medical research and institutions over ag sciences.
Nebraska was tossed out in 2011 and is pleading to be readmitted.
I am just finding this out now. I had no idea ISU voluntarily to boot. I just did a little research. It’s rare to voluntarily leave.
There is speculation that ISU may have been on the bubble for maintaining their membership.
Nebraska remains the only school to be ejected from the AAU.
I hope the link works. Link: https://www.press-citizen.com/story...since-1900-university-of-nebraska/7441834001/
We get it, ISU is in the hole for a $147 million, what about EIU, they are in the hole for $231 million itself. Maybe the Gazette should spend a little bit more time asking how and why they are in debt that much and make a big deal out of it, like they are with ISU.
University of Iowa ‘very interested’ in athletics paying back $50M loan ‘as quickly as possible’
IOWA CITY — Hawkeye Athletics hasn’t made much of a dent in paying back the $50 million it borrowed from the main University of Iowa campus during the height of
But the income stream at Iowa is much much higher from here forward.We get it, ISU is in the hole for a $147 million, what about EIU, they are in the hole for $231 million itself. Maybe the Gazette should spend a little bit more time asking how and why they are in debt that much and make a big deal out of it, like they are with ISU.
University of Iowa ‘very interested’ in athletics paying back $50M loan ‘as quickly as possible’
IOWA CITY — Hawkeye Athletics hasn’t made much of a dent in paying back the $50 million it borrowed from the main University of Iowa campus during the height ofwww.thegazette.com
True but your expenses are also a lot higher than ISU. If you look at the last budget, EIU is like a lot of farmers, land rich but money poor. They have a lot of income coming in off the media contract, but they are also spending it as fast as it's coming in. I really am not worried about either school, they will figure it out and both will be fine in the long run as long as the money coming in does not drop. If it would, either school would be in a lot of trouble, but for that to happen, schools across the country would also be in the same boat.
Will Faux Mahomes change his look now?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...S&cvid=bbbc41c5760247818ae32b2b4f44fcf9&ei=26
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...S&cvid=bbbc41c5760247818ae32b2b4f44fcf9&ei=26
I'd much rather be a land rich farmer than a welfare queen like Clown U.
The difference is that Iowa’s athletic director didn’t hop in front of a camera with a trembling lip and a nasal whine to air out the school’s finances like a used gym sock. Jamie Pollard, on the other hand, turned into a full-blown PBS pledge drive, begging for sympathy while practically clutching pearls over a mess his own department helped create.
Iowa’s AD didn’t have to say a word—because when you run a major athletic department with actual revenue and national relevance, you don’t need to cry on cue for the local media. You handle your business. Quietly. Competently. Like an adult.
But hey, if you’re looking for someone to narrate budget woes in the voice of a congested squirrel, Pollard’s your guy.
Maybe this will help.
I have streaming service fatigue. Too many stand alone services to buy to watch everything.
I am surprised they all have survived.
Maybe this will help.
This is actually pathetic. Peacock getting Big 12 basketball isn’t a “win” — it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant by throwing money at content they don’t own and can’t monetize properly. You think people are subscribing to watch UCF vs. BYU on a Thursday night behind a paywall? Come on.
They’re paying tens of millions to ESPN just to borrow games that used to air for free on network TV — and for what? A few thousand new subscribers who’ll cancel after March? Peacock’s already bleeding money, and now they’re chasing the same live sports scraps CBS just overpaid for too.
Meanwhile, ESPN is quietly offloading its leftovers because even they know the Big 12 isn’t the cash cow they pretend it is. This is what happens when streaming platforms try to buy legitimacy with someone else’s product instead of building their own.
It’s not innovation. It’s glorified cable reruns with a worse UI and no remote.
the worst bbq I’ve ever eaten.
Time will tell, but I believe CyTown will be a failure of epic proportions. Who wants to tailgate at a bar with $6 beers and $12 burgers when the fun of Tailgating is hauling supplies in and partying outside your car?
I dunno who it is gonna draw. I know they are doing the condo thing there, so maybe those people?
Ah, the ol’ wink emoji — missed it completely. Chalk it up to being an old bastard whose emoji-reading skills peaked somewhere around the rotary phone era. If it’s not blinking in Morse code or etched into a stone tablet, there’s a good chance it’s going right over my head.note thethat was behind my comment.
sorry for the outrage i caused you