If anyone is curious what is on the docket this Thursday.
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Board of Trustees Agenda for June 15, 2023
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The Kleuh Level
Special Olympics deemed 'massive success' by officials
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Special Olympics Indiana wrapped up Sunday with multiple sports and events that showcased all the positives of this event. The director of marketing and communicatio…
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What we "traded" for this?
Hopefully businesses show up and ask questions. IMO that's an important phase. ISU has lost 5,000 plus students. This is a hit for the community as a whole not just ISU.
Special Olympics deemed 'massive success' by officials
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Special Olympics Indiana wrapped up Sunday with multiple sports and events that showcased all the positives of this event. The director of marketing and communicatio…
What we "traded" for this?
We didn't trade. That is just what the admin toss out there and people are still making it a talking point. Once you and others stop, maybe we can actually focus on the important things in the equation.
BTW, those games net Indiana State almost as much as a FBS football money game. That is a huge revenue stream for facilities that would be sitting empty.
I'm not sure if this one is open or not. I tried to get that info but couldn't find it anywhere.
I posted in the other thread when we veered off topic, but our lack of enrollment is going to eventually lead to a myriad of compounding issues. Our campus infrastructure is built for like 20k students and that infra is expensive to maintain. Then obviously future staffing cuts will likely be required if it keeps dropping since people are always an organizations biggest expense.
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The Kleuh Level
I'll stick w/ the "trade" concept. Did you watch ESPN's coverage? How often did the TCU S.O. "charity" concept surface, as if THIS $40k would compensate ISU/S.O for the "trade-off" losses of giving the Super Regional to DFW.
Btw, the "important things" are the politics undermining Curtis' appointment as ISU President, and what steps are needed to REMOVE her.
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Yeah I would say if it's open to the public then we are going to need representation from:
The Mayor, The Commissioners, Th Chamber President Kristin Craig, Dave Patterson, Greg Gibson, Bob Basler, Brian Dorsett, Paul Thrift, Rob York, Gary Dick, Dan Bradley, Mel Burks, Kash Ahmadi, John Newton, Bob Warren, Rachel Leslie (RJL Solutions) - someone that is not only a donor but someone who has a vested interest in athletics. We have plenty of people who donate more money than some of the names I have listed. We need someone who not only is an alum, not only donates, not only is supportive of athletics, not only has business acumen and but someone that is also local to speak up. Perhaps multiple people! They need to hear from people locally - because if you live hear in TH the noise is a little different. I've never heard it so intensely negative from multiple different angles - since almost NONE of them are local including the President this perspective is important.
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Have at it. It's flawed and a distraction.
We could have hosted Super Regionals this weekend with zero acknowledgement that Special Olympics was occurring a mere several thousand feet away if we wanted to. By continuing to say we traded it is putting Special Olympics in the spotlight as the reason, not the administration. Just like TCU's continuous coverage essentially made it out to be. If someone watched the broadcast, that is exactly what the assumption would be as to why TCU was playing at home.
Basically all those donations did was serve as a rebate for how much they paid to rent our facilities.
Save Big Money at Mendards!
Sorry. I couldn't help it. You said rebate and I got distracted.
Jason I know you've touched on Curtis's "recruiting" strategy and how flawed it is essentially going after "first gen college students" as your main pool and supplementing from there. Do you happen to know what our recruiting strategies are with the Indy and surrounding doughnut counties? Seems like that should be where majority of our recruiting efforts should go. A lot of qualified students, statistically more likely to stay 4 years, good distance from Terre Haute, high chance that they stay in the area or at least in state after graduation, etc. I swear it's almost like she is sabotaging ISU
Anecdotally, when my nephews went to the college fair during their senior year at Zionsville HS, ISU was the only major college in Indiana that didn't bother to show up. For what it's worth...
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The Kleuh Level
Where were all of these TH/Vigo "power brokers" and why didn't they step into the mind of Curtis two weeks ago? The Municipal (local) v. State POWER GRID?
good lord
That's what I've been wondering. They all come out from hiding AFTER the fact. I lay blame partially on them as well. I really don't think any of them thought we would even have a chance to host a SR.
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The Kleuh Level
That's indexed under the Scott School of Business.
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The Kleuh Level
Kinda like the ol' "Flash Photo" experience w/ $$$ clouding the neural pathways of logic.
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"Hiding" I don't think anyone is hiding... Why have a BOT appointed by the Governor if it's the job of local leaders to step into the fray???????? If anyone is complicit to this lack of leadership, drop in enrollment, poor PR efforts, not hosting SR it's Indiana State.
I have no time or energy for anyone that's trying to point the finger at the community or community leaders. That's the distraction we don't need now. The point is they are here now and they're unhappy and speaking up. It came to this point because the BOT failed to act. The end.
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The Kleuh Level
Good that SSOM has those paddles....The UNIVERSITY lies INSIDE TH. No infrastructural sharing during SPECIAL events?
Does anyone know Curtis Birthday? How old is she?
Clearly not… In our AD’s own words had he known the community cared this much then he would have arrived at a different opinion and next time he will send out an email to asses interest.
It’s the Mayor or the commissioners or the CVB or the Chamber’s or hell fans and alums job to know the application process and the decision making timing of hosting Regionals and Super Regionals? I think not. 100% of us just dug in and learned this all last week. How can you expect local leadership to reach out to Indiana State ahead of any of this… It doesn’t work that way. These people wear many other hats as is.