This is how they raise money in the MVC

[mthoopsfan]

"Ill St. AD resigns after questions about spending for Big 10 trip on booster plane"

[This is the guy the Cats hired for a few days several years ago.]

"Brennan and another top Athletics administrator spent over $23,000 on the trip. The one-day junket included a stop at a strip club."

"Less than two months after the trip together, Rossi pledged a $3 million donation to Athletics’ new Indoor Practice Facility. ISU won’t say if that money ever materialized; Rossi was indicted on federal tax fraud charges weeks after the pledge, and a judge restricted his ability to spend money. Rossi and his company, Reditus, remain under federal investigation."

"Records show Brennan bought nine 100-level club game tickets on StubHub within a day of kickoff, in three separate transactions – four tickets, two more tickets, and then three more tickets. Those tickets cost $18,754, according to a voucher Brennan submitted to the ISU Foundation showing “donor stewardship” as the purpose of the trip.

They flew from Bloomington’s Central Illinois Regional Airport to Indianapolis on a Falcon 900 jet owned by Rossi, according to flight records obtained by WGLT from FlightAware. They arrived at the Million Air private hanger in Indianapolis and took Ubers and Lyfts into downtown Indianapolis for the football game, according to receipts reviewed by WGLT."

"It’s unclear what exactly the ISU Athletics staff and donors did in Indianapolis after the Big Ten football game ended, although some in the group apparently ended the evening at the Red Garter Gentlemen’s Club in downtown Indianapolis. That’s a short walk from Lucas Oil Stadium.

At 2:21 a.m. Sunday (about three hours after the game ended), Muhlhauser or someone with access to his Lyft account booked a $144 Lyft ride from 437 S. Illinois St. (the address for Red Garter) back to the Hampton Inn & Suites in the Indianapolis suburb of Avon, according to Lyft receipts provided by Muhlhauser to the ISU Foundation as part of a voucher for “donor stewardship” on the trip."

"Cultivating and securing big donations from wealthy prospective donors like Rossi is part of the job for Brennan and Muhlhauser. Brennan was hired as ISU’s athletics director in late 2020 partly because of his fundraising ability, and it helped earn him a contract extension last summer."

https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2023-04-13/isu-athletics-director-resigns-after-questions-about-spending-for-big-ten-trip-on-aaron-rossis-plane

 

[ordigger]

Is this the same guy that turned down the MSU gig after a few days because he wanted to stay closer to home, and be a family man. If I recall the family wasn't on board with moving to Bozeman. Now he is busted for going to a strip club? I'm surprised MSU couldn't keep him. Fits in well with their culture.

 

[3-7-77]

Looks like the 'family man' got something caught in his zipper. If the family didn't like Bozeman, you can see where the brains of the family lie.

Those GD strip clubs. Remember Mike Price?

Price may be best known nationally for an off-the-field incident during his brief stint at Alabama. In December 2002, he was hired in principle to replace Dennis Franchione as the head coach of the Crimson Tide. Price was at Alabama during the 2003 spring practice, but in May his contract was rescinded shortly after news reports surfaced of Price being seen at a strip club during a trip to Pensacola, Florida, where Price was playing in a golf tournament, and he also had about $1,000 charged to his hotel room by an unknown woman staying in the room. This development came on the heels of an earlier reprimand for visiting campus-area bars and drinking into the early hours in Tuscaloosa.[10][11] --Wiki

 

[kemajic]

Looks like the 'family man' got something caught in his zipper. If the family didn't like Bozeman, you can see where the brains of the family lie.

Those GD strip clubs. Remember Mike Price?

Price may be best known nationally for an off-the-field incident during his brief stint at Alabama. In December 2002, he was hired in principle to replace Dennis Franchione as the head coach of the Crimson Tide. Price was at Alabama during the 2003 spring practice, but in May his contract was rescinded shortly after news reports surfaced of Price being seen at a strip club during a trip to Pensacola, Florida, where Price was playing in a golf tournament, and he also had about $1,000 charged to his hotel room by an unknown woman staying in the room. This development came on the heels of an earlier reprimand for visiting campus-area bars and drinking into the early hours in Tuscaloosa.[10][11] --Wiki

He was Dennis Erickson's carousing and drinking buddy. Nuf said.