ISU Athletics

[SCHawkeye2]

Good read.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/63...sketball-finances/?source=user_shared_article‘Grow our own fans’: How Iowa State found a golden era after college athletics’ longest climb

 

[CP87]

Gotta tip your cap to them, they have built something over there.

 

[SCHawkeye2]

Gotta tip your cap to them, they have built something over there.

Agree

 

[trj]

Random thoughts:

I finally got a subscription to ’The Athletic’.

Jaime Pollard came off to me as this whiny, nasal voice guy. What I have come to realize, is that he good at his job. More importantly, timing was perfect, he was the ideal cheerleader/administrator needed for Iowa St. when he was hired.

I grew up in the 80(s) and 90(s), and the majority of the ISU fan base was a 40-50 mile radius of Ames. Has that changed now? Is the ISU brand state wide?

The grass roots approach that ISU took, Iowa needs to copy now. You cringe and shrug your shoulders, but this isn’t the 80(s) and 90(s) anymore.

 

[CP87]

Random thoughts:

I finally got a subscription to ’The Athletic’.

Jaime Pollard came off to me as this whiny, nasal voice guy. What I have come to realize, is that he good at his job. More importantly, timing was perfect, he was the ideal cheerleader/administrator needed for Iowa St. when he was hired.

I grew up in the 80(s) and 90(s), and the majority of the ISU fan base was a 40-50 mile radius of Ames. Has that changed now? Is the ISU brand state wide?

The grass roots approach that ISU took, Iowa needs to copy now. You cringe and shrug your shoulders, but this isn’t the 80(s) and 90(s) anymore.

What I really want them to copy is CyTown, but geographically, not sure how you do that. Maybe with a new BB arena somewhere out on west Melrose?

 

[Zstatman]

Random thoughts:

I finally got a subscription to ’The Athletic’.

Jaime Pollard came off to me as this whiny, nasal voice guy. What I have come to realize, is that he good at his job. More importantly, timing was perfect, he was the ideal cheerleader/administrator needed for Iowa St. when he was hired.

I grew up in the 80(s) and 90(s), and the majority of the ISU fan base was a 40-50 mile radius of Ames. Has that changed now? Is the ISU brand state wide?

The grass roots approach that ISU took, Iowa needs to copy now. You cringe and shrug your shoulders, but this isn’t the 80(s) and 90(s) anymore.

I grew up in Ringgold County, south of Des Moines on the Missouri line, I'd say it's 75% ISU.

 

[Grady]

The Waterloo metro is an interesting mix: seems to me the fan breakdown is about 1/3 UNI, 1/3 Iowa, and 1/3 Iowa St.