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Edited: Holy score board Batman!
Holy cow Iowa State. Was there really a need to have the world's largest score board??
This building is 4 stories and BIG. It looks dinky compared to the monstrosity that is the score board framing!
The score board that is there now seems massive in person...it will look puny now. The building in the above picture is at the top left of this photo. Crazy!
eta: Never mind. The old score board is going away.
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Re: Edited: Holy score board Batman!
If they want to be competitive and win games, maybe yes.
Your team is only good if you get good recruits. You get good recruits by having 1) a storied football tradition, or 2) a big-name coach with impressive credentials, or 3) a campus in a desirable warm-weather location, or 4) impressive facilities. Like the U of M, Iowa State doesn't have 1, 2 or 3, so their way to get top recruits is with facilities.
And they're competing in the Big 12 with the likes of Texas (who previously had the largest scoreboard in college football - 1 foot wider than Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium ... Minnesota had the biggest scoreboard for about 2 months). So in order to win games, they need top-notch facilities to attract top recruits.
I highly doubt tuition money is paying for that. I'm sure they did fundraising ... just like the U did for it's new million dollar weight room and new practice turf. Besides, athletic departments at public schools get almost no funding from their school these days, athletic departments are largely self-sufficient. At the U of M, only 1.5% of the athletics budget comes from the university and the other 98.5% is earned by the athletics department through ticket revenue, TV/radio rights, merchandise sales, corporate sponsorships, fundraising, etc.
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I was mostly being cheeky, but thanks for all of the info!! :-) I am NOOOOOOT a football fan so really I'm not fully aware where the funding comes from and truth be told I think spending tons of money on any sporting event is ridiculous (and I realize that is not popular opinion at ALL!)
I was just shocked at how BIG it is. It will absolutely dwarf anything within a 2 mile radius of it.
Hah. I wouldn't even know, honestly. :-) I went to exactly *one* game there during my 5-year degree program.
Huge scoreboards attract top players. Great.
I'm with Kiz and think it's ridiculous to spend so much on sports.
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Oh, I agree that there are more "worthy" expenditures of money. But, if people are willing to donate the money, why not?
No one says anything when donors give money to a university to upgrade theaters (like is currently happening at the U with Northrop Auditorium). How is music/dance an acceptable form of entertainment worth spending university money on, but sports aren't? Sports are important to some people, music/dance is important to others.
I get that some people don't think sports are important, and in many cases I'm one of those people, but it's a huge deal to a lot of people. There are a lot of sports fans out there, and a lot of them have money to throw around. If they want to see a huge scoreboard at a stadium and want to pay for it, good for them.
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The scoreboard could cost up to $4 million, and will be moved from the south side of the stadium to the north.
Outside of the meeting, Pollard said the scoreboard will be on a lease, and paid for through sponsorship contracts with advertisers.
Well there ya go. I'll eat my hat now.
I can fully appreciate that someone might think supporting the arts is ridiculous. Certainly a person could appreciate I think supporting athletics is ridiculous even if they disagree. Goes both ways. Neither viewpoint is 100% right or wrong. I just tend to lean towards this new scoreboard being slightly ridiculous. Again, I acknowledge my viewpoint is probably in the minority. Oh well. Not my $4 million after all. Whew! :-)
Money aside, I think it's a ridiculous place to put something like that. They probably spent millions on the Jacobson building and then they go and plop this thing right on top of it. So my designer side says "Yuck!"
:-)
I don't know if they leave the U of M scoreboard on all the time (every time I've driven past it it's been on, regardless of time of year/time of day) - maybe someone on here knows...
but can you imagine if they left that scoreboard on all the time!? The light pollution for people living near it would suck.. not to mention the energy bill!
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I really don't care how people donate their money but I still think it's ridiculous. I also think it's crazy that someone would consider score board size as a factor in choosing a college. But to each his or her own.
What I really wanted to comment on is the bold part. I actually think colleges and universities - or any school for that matter - should focus on education and not on entertainment. At the same time, I get that some of these things are extracurricular activities or in the case of arts, required classes for a major or whatever, and it's hard to draw the line between enriching the college experience and entertainment. I don't know.
In the grand scheme of things, this whole subject is pretty low on my scale of importance so I'm not even sure why I bothered to respond. At least it's almost Friday before a long weekend!
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I agree with Kiz that the scoreboard size and placement are not ideal.
I like sports a lot, but I also appreciate music/dance/theater. I'm not a huge college football fan though. Bottom line, for these schools football = BIG money for the entire school. Whether those funds are appropriated evenly and fairly, who knows.
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mmhmm H and I lived by Como Park (like, a block away) for the last two years. We could see the light from the freaking TCF stadium. We thought it was fireworks in the distance one time. Nope. Just that much light polution. (FTR- that's about 3 miles away 'as the bird flies' or whatever that saying is.)
I can't imagine what it's like to live right next to it, but I guess that's a chance you take living super close to a large University.
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They obviously didn't consult an architect.
Of all the places they could have put a score board the size of Mars, that is the LAST place I would have put it.