Conceptual design for Syracuse football's indoor practice facility plaza leaked on website | Syracusefan.com

Conceptual design for Syracuse football's indoor practice facility plaza leaked on website

Whitey23 said:
we hit the big time boys

Syracuse, N.Y. — The Syracuse athletic department has been tight-lipped about its planned indoor practice facility, but renderings of three statues that could sit outside the IPF appear to have been released on the website Syracusefan.com.


http://www.syracuse.com/orangefootb...t_outside_syracuses_indoor_practice_faci.html
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Don't like the tone of Joe's words in that article. I'm hoping this doesn't lead to Jason not posting as frequent over here anymore.
 
JackBauer44 said:
Don't like the tone of Joe's words in that article. I'm hoping this doesn't lead to Jason not posting as frequent over here anymore.
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I'm hoping that the new chancellor recognizes that an Assistant Athletic Director for Communications is not a necessary position at a university that already has a whole Department of Athletic Communications.
 
OttoMets said:
I'm hoping that the new chancellor recognizes that an Assistant Athletic Director for Communications is not a necessary position at a university that already has a whole Department of Athletic Communications.
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Especially when the director of communications doesn't have a clue how to handle communications.

Jason was doing exactly what he should be doing: sharing information about future plans that require fundraising to spur the fundraising.

I don't know why the athletic department at SU is so reluctant to share plans and reach out to the fanbase but it is surely a big reason why they have struggled so much at fundraising.
 
If I had to take a wild stab at the cost...I bet it would be closer to $250k than $13K. I read the article to say they had $13k to go.

Anyways, a worthy project to help build tradition, honor and inspire.
 
Every time this Giansante 's quoted he sounds like the biggest tool around. No need for him to say so much when he could have stopped at nothing is concrete at this point, and we are still seeking donations to enhance the IPF/plaza.

What was the point of saying it would cost $13k for a basketball hoop? This guy absolutely needs to go.
 
I thought the Army Corps of Engineers had already studied the leak?
 
Sounds like they may be trying to solicit some big donations still for the statues/facility and Jason's comments showed that there was only a need for $13,000. A lot of my work is in fundraising and if they raise more than needed it just gets shuffled to another use. You NEVER say we only need $13,000 left if you can still get $100,000+ out of some on the fence donors. Sounds like Joe is doing a bit of damage control but I wouldn't throw Jason under the bus like that.
 
Ozcuse said:
Sounds like they may be trying to solicit some big donations still for the statues/facility and Jason's comments showed that there was only a need for $13,000. A lot of my work is in fundraising and if they raise more than needed it just gets shuffled to another use. You NEVER say we only need $13,000 left if you can still get $100,000+ out of some on the fence donors. Sounds like Joe is doing a bit of damage control but I wouldn't throw Jason under the bus like that.
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Not a chance in hell it's $13,000. I'm building a patio outside my house and just the materials between the patio and the landscaping is going to be ~$7K, and I'm not paying for labor.
 
SU2NASA said:
Not a chance in hell it's $13,000. I'm building a patio outside my house and just the materials between the patio and the landscaping is going to be ~$7K, and I'm not paying for labor.
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Are you using your interns for "practical application" training? :D
 
$13,000 was the number used for what is still needed to be raised, not the total cost.
 
What's annoying is that those are just standard photos that have been photoshopped. It's not like someone went and mocked up some statues. Any photoshop monkey could have done that.

Edit: To clarify, I mean for Carlson to sensationalize it.
 
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Ozcuse said:
Sounds like they may be trying to solicit some big donations still for the statues/facility and Jason's comments showed that there was only a need for $13,000. A lot of my work is in fundraising and if they raise more than needed it just gets shuffled to another use. You NEVER say we only need $13,000 left if you can still get $100,000+ out of some on the fence donors. Sounds like Joe is doing a bit of damage control but I wouldn't throw Jason under the bus like that.
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Nail on the head there. We had a recent fundraising campaign and it wasn't announced that we had reached goal until a solid 6 months after we had actually reached goal. Secured another $2 million in the meantime.
 
This is the Post Standard expressing annoyance that the university released anything without going through them. The author went out of his way to make Jason look like some sort of ill informed rogue in the athletic department. It's really all in very poor taste. Then the director of communications comes off as obstructionist about something that should be generating enthusiasm and ecmxcitement. Weak as sh$t all around.
 
Does anyone know what Giasante does to earn that 6 figure paycheck besides make ridiculous quotes to the PS?
 
anomander said:
Does anyone know what Giasante does to earn that 6 figure paycheck besides make ridiculous quotes to the PS?
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Yeah--he apparently pzzes off people here on the board--maybe it's in his job description?
 
texascpa said:
"Those concepts would cost infinitely more than that."

What the hell does that mean, lol? Does Giansante know what the word "infinitely" means?
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Exactly.

How can a person whose job is to work with words not use his words with absolute precision?

It's a disgrace that Gross snuck this guy onto the payroll.
 
OttoMets said:
I'm hoping that the new chancellor recognizes that an Assistant Athletic Director for Communications is not a necessary position at a university that already has a whole Department of Athletic Communications.
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The problem with professional staffing in academia is that they tend to take a quantity over quality line of attack. The ideal thing would be to pay someone who is very good twice what this guy is making, and then let them take on grad assistants from newhouse and hire a couple executive assistants who are young, smart, can take direction, and are much more than executive assistants. Instead you hire a bunch of average people, divide up their work and hope for the best.

To give an example on the executive assistant front...my sister is significantly smarter than me. She was a straight A student at Middlebury and is now finishing her phd at UT Austin. In between grad school and Middlebury she got job as an 'assistant' to a Provost at NYU. The provost had plenty of experienced professional staff but basically would give them the blocking and tackling and trusted my then 25 year old sister to do the real stuff. She was involved in the opening of their Dubai campus, editing books, planning and hosting big events, writing press releases (which communications dept would rubber stamp) dealing with a cluster of suicides on campus, among many other things. She made no money but was the Provost's most trusted and effective employee because she was smart, effective, hard working, could take direction, and was not stuck in some institutional mindset way of doing things. Those two as a pair did more than the staff of 20 did. The AD at Syracuse could learn something from that model.

And by the way, we want guys like Jason doing exactly what he's doing. Throwing him under the bus is moronic - someone just feels like they got their toes stepped on and is showing it in the local newspaper. man that is some bad form.
 
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Even if Poles did make a mistake (which he didn't), that is certainly not the way to handle it.

If only there were some knowledgeable PR people around the board to help them
 
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