Something to keep an eye on...

[Jason Svoboda]

Honestly, let's be honest and realistic here. It's going to take a corporate sponsor to get a new football stadium done. We don't bring in revenues with ticket or merchandise sales and with funding being cut yearly, there will need to be a corporate sponsor to pay for it.

 

[4Q_iu]

Honestly, let's be honest and realistic here. It's going to take a corporate sponsor to get a new football stadium done. We don't bring in revenues with ticket or merchandise sales and with funding being cut yearly, there will need to be a corporate sponsor to pay for it.

State COULD develop a plan like ISU-Muncee used when they 'built' Scheumann Stadium... 1-2 deep-pocketed alumni AND hundreds, thousands of dedicated fans...

'Course, ISU-muncee (and they rest of the MAC) may be in the FCS in the near future...

 

[Sackalot]

ISU, like many other schools is struggling to raise necessary funds. It is highly unlikely there is going to be one or two deep pocketed alumni step forward and certainly not thousands of fans to pay for a stadium. It is going to take a look of political work, it is going to take a great deal of dedication and effort to find the funds, whether from local, state gov't or from an additional tax or from alumni or from corporate sponsor or a combintation of all of these. Lets put it this way, someone is going to pay for it...whom is the question. I hope an alumnus comes along! I hope ISU inks a deal with a corporate sponsor! I hope that the Sycamores go undefeated over the next 4 years and move up to the Big Leagues and they start selling 8,000 tickets for every game and have to add the more seats on the visitor side! All will help this happen in the future! But whatever happens the funding is and will be the issue!

 

[4Q_iu]

ISU, like many other schools is struggling to raise necessary funds. It is highly unlikely there is going to be one or two deep pocketed alumni step forward and certainly not thousands of fans to pay for a stadium. It is going to take a look of political work, it is going to take a great deal of dedication and effort to find the funds, whether from local, state gov't or from an additional tax or from alumni or from corporate sponsor or a combintation of all of these. Lets put it this way, someone is going to pay for it...whom is the question. I hope an alumnus comes along! I hope ISU inks a deal with a corporate sponsor! I hope that the Sycamores go undefeated over the next 4 years and move up to the Big Leagues and they start selling 8,000 tickets for every game and have to add the more seats on the visitor side! All will help this happen in the future! But whatever happens the funding is and will be the issue!

At the end of the day, WE, the consumer will pay for it. It doesn't matter if it originates from within the University or from corporate 'sponsor' -- it's all OUR money.

I see a further separation between the Big Six conferences and the rest of Div I - FBS and Div I - FCS schools; with some of the Sunbelt, C-USA schools and the MAC schools DOWNGRADING their programs to FCS.

As the nation's population moves to the exterior of the country, those schools will continue to grow but at the end of the day, it's all about $$$.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

State COULD develop a plan like ISU-Muncee used when they 'built' Scheumann Stadium... 1-2 deep-pocketed alumni AND hundreds, thousands of dedicated fans...

'Course, ISU-muncee (and they rest of the MAC) may be in the FCS in the near future...

Again, let's be realistic. It's going to take a major corporate sponsor.

 

[4Q_iu]

Again, let's be realistic. It's going to take a major corporate sponsor.

Because...

1. There are no 'deep-pocketed' State Alumni?
2. Those Alumni who ARE deep-pocketed don't believe in the university, the football team or funding these projects?
3. A major corporate sponsor (national? midwest? state? wabash valley? vigo county? terre haute?) is "where the money is?"