Iowa-Iowa State (or is it Iowa State-Iowa???) series

From the University of Iowa:

The institutions agreed to continue to share 20 percent of the revenue from the sale of tickets to the event in the first five years of the new agreement. These terms are similar to how gate receipts were shared under the previous agreement. The institutions also agreed that gate receipts in the final five years of the new agreement will be treated similar to more traditional home-and-home game contracts.

Here's the basic background (from The Gazette):

Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta said he and Iowa State Athletics Director

Jamie Pollard have discussed the schools' disputed football contract.

"We were at national meetings together, and we have talked on the phone a couple of

times," Barta said. "We continue to talk pretty regularly. We haven't made any

final conclusions.

"We just keep talking."

The schools have differing opinions regarding a contract extension. Iowa officials maintain

the contract expires after the 2010 game because a new contract was not signed. Iowa State

officials believe correspondence between its former athletics director, Bruce Van De Velde, and

Iowa's former athletics director, Bob Bowlsby, indicate the intent of extending the deal

through 2020.

Iowa State provided The Gazette with correspondence that shows the schools agreed to extend

the deal in 2005. Bowlsby and Van De Velde agreed the schools extended the contract as well.

The current contract calls for the visiting team to receive 20 percent of the home gate. That

tends to favor Iowa State, which has a smaller stadium. Also, Iowa State charged Hawkeye fans

$90 a ticket through Iowa's ticket office this fall, more than just about any other college football ticket.

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This is a compromise.

ISU got to keep five more years of an advantageous deal; Iowa put an end to ISU's sweetheart deal after those five years.

I don't have the contract in front of me, but I wonder if the expansion of Jack Trice, closing in the south end of the stadium, will affect the deal or if it's written into it at all? 

The rivalry is more alive than ever. If this is what it took to keep it, then fine. I'll never understand how that last contract made it by the goalie in the first place. Different times, I guess.

Just a note, the Iowa legislature has never and will never have a say in whether the two schools will play each other in football. That's a myth. It was an item on the agenda in the '70s but never more than that. The schools control their own scheduling.

Some Iowa fans want to see the series go away. I do not. I think it's more than a game for our state.

Leave some comments. I want to know what you think on this.