dpdoughbird06
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I don’t assume anything about you.
I will ask though, what is the point of a message board if you can’t vent about a shit-ass program that consistently underachieves? Or maybe this is this a microcosm of today’s world where only happy thoughts are allowed?
Almost every single program in our conference has lapped us…in both football and basketball. F’ing unbelievable how many on this site are in the “I graduated from here so I’ll support the program come thick or thin”. Such bullshit.
You should be pissed and you should be embarrassed…and you should and start demanding better. A message board is a good start.
Otherwise you’ll be mired in this crap for the next twenty years.
About being lapped by the rest of the conference…it was just announced the other day that ISU is investing $6 million in E-sports via a renovation of the BBC.
Hard to view this as anything other than a shifting of overall university priorities and a mandate to Athletics to be self-reliant.
Looking at football from a cost-benefit perspective, does ISU gain much from investing in a successful football program? We’ll “sell out” (all tickets purchased, but lots of empty seats) Family Weekend and Homecoming, then typically host a Labor Day tune-up against a weak Pioneer team and finish up at home on a chilly day (with the occasional blizzard) while students are gone for Thanksgiving due to IHSA Volleyball championships the previous weekend.
So a top-tier Redbird football team maybe fills a few more seats on what this year would be the November 6 game. And maybe we get a bit more from Learfield for TV rights and sponsorships come renewal time.
BUT Spack said at last week’s coaches show when we are down it’s easier to find FBS teams will to pay us for a buy game, so revenues probably even out regardless of how much we spend (or don’t) on an indoor, assistant coaches or potential Hancock South end zone expansion.
I love when Redbird Football is dominant, but getting and staying there requires investment, and it appears the university has chosen to allocate its resources elsewhere.