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  • UNI in the Register

    http://www.desmoinesregister.com/sto...dies/30301673/

    Same old sorry, always hate slanted comparison....not reporting how much taxpayer or student subsidies were provided over the same period that the show our $56M

    "Among Iowa's three public universities, the University of Iowa hasn't given any state tax dollars or student subsidy to its athletics programs since 2007. Iowa State University athletics have been cut off from those sources since 2011.

    But UNI has provided its athletics program more than $56 million in taxpayer or student subsidies over the past dozen years to cover what couldn't be raised through ticket sales, conference contracts, alumni donations, student fees and other sources."

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    Re: UNI in the Register

    Caption under article photo:

    "Iowa fans cheer during the Hawkeyes' game against the University of Iowa at Kinnick Stadium in 2014."

    Well done Register - journalistic integrity at it's finest. Also love how they throw out that $56 million number then quietly mention that it's over a DOZEN years (about $4 million a year).
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      Re: UNI in the Register

      Of that $4 Million, the athletic department turns around and gives $1.7 Million right back to the general fund. It's really $2.3 Million.
      #MACtion

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        Re: UNI in the Register

        Originally posted by BCPanther View Post
        Of that $4 Million, the athletic department turns around and gives $1.7 Million right back to the general fund. It's really $2.3 Million.
        Are you trying to tell me Deon Mitchell isn't coming to UNI without a basketball scholarship? Get outta here with that nonsense!
        Originally posted by TH1974
        This guy was all-UNI, and wanted to show it by pretending to play a non-existant musical instrument in public.

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        • #5
          Re: UNI in the Register

          Originally posted by 95UNIGRAD View Post
          Caption under article photo:

          "Iowa fans cheer during the Hawkeyes' game against the University of Iowa at Kinnick Stadium in 2014."

          How hard is it to get things like this correct? It is just silly to allow mistakes like this.

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            Re: UNI in the Register

            That's very strange that they picked 12 years as a time frame. Iowa and ISU have only been self supporting for 8 and 4 years respectively, so I wonder how much in student and taxpayer subsidies they each have provided their athletic programs over the past 12 years.

            Maybe if UNI wasn't subsidizing the UofI about $20 million per year in disproportionate state funding it would't be an issue. Maybe if the register wasn't giving Iowa and ISU tens of millions in free publicity per year that UNI doesn't get their athletic programs wouldn't be so much more profitable. Maybe if all TV viewers were not more or less forced to subsidize the B10 and B12 whether they want to watch their athletics or not they would still be funding their athletics with taxpayer money. Maybe if Texas hadn't decided to throw ISU a lifeline a few years back they'd be in the MAC right now losing more money than UNI. Actually those last two aren't maybes.

            It's a stupid effing article on a stupid effing subject, but what else would you expect from the dsm edition of USA today.
            Last edited by GonzoCat; 07-17-2015, 11:03 PM.
            GO PANTHERS!

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              Re: UNI in the Register

              Originally posted by GonzoCat View Post
              Maybe if UNI wasn't subsidizing the UofI about $20 million per year in disproportionate state funding it would't be an issue.
              Damn right.

              I'd like to see the Register spend more time talking about the good things UNI has done with a backasswards funding model that benefits UI...and the politics behind that.

              And I'd like to see the Register talk more about how UNI's athletic department gets more bang for the buck than UI and ISU combined.

              And I'd like to see the Register talk more about what UNI athletics has done for the image and brand name of the school.

              Perhaps UNI's success in hoops last year was getting under the skin of some folks who'd rather see us go away. So better throw a few shovels of !@#% on the purple.
              Last edited by Blue42; 07-18-2015, 06:10 AM.
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              • #8
                Re: UNI in the Register

                or all the non-iowan students the taxpayers subsidize at the University of Iowa.
                "I think they're very good," Farley said of the preseason top 25 Hawkeyes. "But so are we."

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                  Re: UNI in the Register

                  Originally posted by ubuntuCAT View Post
                  or all the non-iowan students the taxpayers subsidize at the University of Iowa.
                  I saw yesterday that they are going to pay an out-of-state part-time marketing specialist about $20,000/month. Hmm...wonder who they're trying to market to.

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                    Re: UNI in the Register

                    Originally posted by panther-state View Post
                    I saw yesterday that they are going to pay an out-of-state part-time marketing specialist about $20,000/month. Hmm...wonder who they're trying to market to.
                    Meanwhile, ISU's enrollment is setting records. I'm not sure where the influx is coming from, but I'd guess the DSM area is at least partially responsible. I've heard some friend's kids complain that as a Freshman at ISU, it's like a high school reunion, since a ton of their classmates went there too. They didn't mean that in a positive way.

                    That was never the case when I was high school/college age. Sure, there were some people who went to ISU for engineering, but most everyone who wanted a business oriented degree went to Iowa, or out of state. ISU, at least around DSM, was primarily thought of as a Moo U type ag school. They've obviously done a good job of selling their biz school, and hyping the biotech programs that would appeal to kids from cities.

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                    • #11
                      Re: UNI in the Register

                      Originally posted by SteinPizza View Post
                      Meanwhile, ISU's enrollment is setting records. I'm not sure where the influx is coming from, but I'd guess the DSM area is at least partially responsible. I've heard some friend's kids complain that as a Freshman at ISU, it's like a high school reunion, since a ton of their classmates went there too. They didn't mean that in a positive way.

                      That was never the case when I was high school/college age. Sure, there were some people who went to ISU for engineering, but most everyone who wanted a business oriented degree went to Iowa, or out of state. ISU, at least around DSM, was primarily thought of as a Moo U type ag school. They've obviously done a good job of selling their biz school, and hyping the biotech programs that would appeal to kids from cities.
                      A lot of the undergrads are non-residents (10+k of 28+k total), according to stats on the ISU site (http://www.registrar.iastate.edu/sit...ace-resf14.pdf). That is up from a 16+k/4+k ratio in 2004 (http://www.registrar.iastate.edu/sit...ace-resf04.pdf). In their College of Engineering, non-residents outnumber in-state undergrads and at the grad level dwarf the in-state for that college. That is a drastic change from ten years ago for CoE undergrads (http://www.registrar.iastate.edu/sit...ace-resf04.pdf).

                      Side note: the novel, "Moo" - a no-so-flattering look at a large, research, ag university by Jane Smiley was written by Smiley when she was faculty at ISU.
                      "Well, that escalated quickly."

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                      • #12
                        This article was actually written by a writer for the press-citizen (Iowa City)!


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                        • #13
                          What an absolute embarrassing joke that the DMR is attempting to make this news again. Recycled garbage from 2008.

                          What UNI athletics receives in actual state funding is a small FRACTION of a single percent of the state budget. Attempting to make that into some type of "story" is tired and laughable.
                          UNI FIGHT

                          Originally posted by 9YRPLAN
                          iowa sucks, fran sucks, their schedule sucks, iowa fans suck

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                            Re: UNI in the Register

                            Originally posted by NEI Panther View Post
                            This article was actually written by a writer for the press-citizen (Iowa City)!


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                            That guy has severe articles in the pass week about that same thing....
                            Must be on some kind of crusade, after their season tickets dropped off.

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                              Re: UNI in the Register

                              The picture of tuttle stuffing the Iowa guy is nice though...

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