Parking

[jegbomb52]

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I agree with Panther-Shiek. You should not donate to get a parking spot. There are significant reasons for donating, incentives should not be one of them. There are several people that I tailgate with in the North lot ,7-10 cars, that would love to fork over a couple of hundred dollars to park in the west lot for football games. We talk about it EACH AND EVERY WEEK WE TAILGATE. I would be ignorant to think that we are the only ones to feel this way. At some universities you must belong to their athletic club simply to buy parking spot. It will happen eventually. Why not do it while the iron is hot.

[oldcat]

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Jeg.................why don't you venture up to the West lot this weekend? Bring the Trumpster with you...........or is being a dad taking precedence?

[jegbomb52]

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It is for Trump Oldcat, don't worry, I don't have any problem leaving Jebbomb 53 behind with Grandma Jeg and coming to hang out. I will try to find you in the west lot.

[TH1974]

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I agree with Panther-Shiek. You should not donate to get a parking spot. There are significant reasons for donating, incentives should not be one of them. There are several people that I tailgate with in the North lot ,7-10 cars, that would love to fork over a couple of hundred dollars to park in the west lot for football games. We talk about it EACH AND EVERY WEEK WE TAILGATE. I would be ignorant to think that we are the only ones to feel this way. At some universities you must belong to their athletic club simply to buy parking spot. It will happen eventually. Why not do it while the iron is hot.

So you're saying that people shouldn't expect incentives for giving money to the athletic department, but that you'd gladly fork over hundreds of dollars to park in a certain place. Why not just give the hundreds of dollars then without the parking spot attached?

[Cat80]

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I agree with Panther-Shiek. You should not donate to get a parking spot. There are significant reasons for donating, incentives should not be one of them. There are several people that I tailgate with in the North lot ,7-10 cars, that would love to fork over a couple of hundred dollars to park in the west lot for football games. We talk about it EACH AND EVERY WEEK WE TAILGATE. I would be ignorant to think that we are the only ones to feel this way. At some universities you must belong to their athletic club simply to buy parking spot. It will happen eventually. Why not do it while the iron is hot.

I don't donate to get a parking spot, I get a parking spot because I donate. Question is: as a former athlete do you donate and help the current cause? Even with incentives? You suggest people should donate without an incentive, but do you donate at all?

[jegbomb52]

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Actually since you have pried your way into my personal life I will share with you. For the first 4 years after graduation my wife and I donated over $1,000 a year. I challenge you to find a couple under the age of 25 with that size of donation. In 2006 I lost my job and went back to school to become a teacher. At this time our donations stopped, as of September of this year my wife and I (as teachers we only get paid once a month) received our first full paycheck in over two years. You can rest assured that our donations will be coming soon. The thing is, I will be donating due to the benefits I reaped from the PSC as a student athlete. Not the parking spot I will receive. No one feels stronger than I do that the Panthers are a Division I team and should be treated as such. Each week the Panthers put a quality product on the field and we should be reaping the rewards from it. At other Universities, I know I have said this before but will say it again, you must be a member of the athletic club simply to buy your parking spot. Stop giving things away because you are afraid 10 less people will come!

[Newsbreaker]

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For the first 4 years after graduation my wife and I donated over $1,000 a year.

Good for you, but don't break your arm. I only know 2 or 3 people under 25 who did this.

It's good that you donated at a high-ish level, but don't slight the others who do the same thing.

[jegbomb52]

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Good for you, but don't break your arm. I only know 2 or 3 people under 25 who did this.

It's good that you donated at a high-ish level, but don't slight the others who do the same thing.

Who did I slight News? It is not my fault that some people find it important to ask about personal finances and donations on a college athletics message board. It is actually my fault I will admit, I never should have replied to the message. My bad.

[Newsbreaker]

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I challenge you to find a couple under the age of 25 with that size of donation.

This was the 'slight.' There are others. Your donation is great and sets a good example, but pretending your the only one ignores that there are others, many of whom who have gotten far less from UNI Athletics than you, who also give at such a level. They shouldn't be ignored.

[jegbomb52]

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God, I don't need to be on this board for two weeks after a 8 month absence and already ****ing Pricks like Newbreaker already make me want to leave again. All I try to do is answer a question and this is what I get. Thanks for making this such a great board, you are always making it better.

[Newsbreaker]

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****ing Pricks like Newbreaker

That was uncalled for. I only commented to make the point that there are many, many people who donate at a high(ish) level and none of them should pretend they are the only ones.

Completely uncalled for.

[1988]

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That was uncalled for. I only commented to make the point that there are many, many people who donate at a high(ish) level and none of them should pretend they are the only ones.

Completely uncalled for.

But true....

[Panther-Sheik]

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Good for you, but don't break your arm. I only know 2 or 3 people under 25 who did this.

It's good that you donated at a high-ish level, but don't slight the others who do the same thing.

Completely ridiculous and unnecessary post. The guy was called out as to why he should be able to "discuss" this topic, and he answered. No bragging, just fact. This is the exact reason why people here think you are a troll. By the way, I will call total BS on your claim to know 2 or 3 people who gave $1,000 per year right after graduation and before they were 25.

[Panther-Sheik]

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God, I don't need to be on this board for two weeks after a 8 month absence and already ****ing Pricks like Newbreaker already make me want to leave again. All I try to do is answer a question and this is what I get. Thanks for making this such a great board, you are always making it better.

This board survives because of people like you, Jeg...and dies a little because of the trolls (no need to mention names). Stick around and wait for the response to this post...it will be interesting.

[Newsbreaker]

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Completely ridiculous and unnecessary post. This is the exact reason why people here think you are a troll. By the way, I will call total BS on your claim to know 2 or 3 people who gave $1,000 per year right after graduation and before they were 25.

How is it ridiculous? (every post here is unnecessary.) He challenged us to find anyone else who does that, so he could blow his own horn a little. I know several who did so. He set the challenge, it was met (though you'll ignore an unprovable assertion because you don't like it, or me...either way, the problem is yours, not mine.)

People don't "like" me around here because I don't get involved in the "tickle me - tickle you" group think. I have my own point-of-view and I share it, but because it's not the accepted group position, I'm a "troll."

In any case, I neither attacked nor really challenged jeg, who needs to toughen his hide a little if his first reaction is to curse and call me a name. I did neither of those things to him, and his response was inappropriate and uncalled for.