Interesting, so I guess we are back to crime hypothesis.
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Far from it. Self-made man through real estate investment and property management. Sounds to me like he didn't grow up much different than I did in a hard working family and from modest means. Biggest difference seems he grew up outside of Chicago while I Pittsburgh.
He is the principal owner of Monarch Mountain, a ski resort in Colorado. He is CEO, President, and Owner of Monarch Investment and Management, Group.
If you want to put a face to a name and some background leading to his current station in life you can read this:
Bob Nicolls — Colorado Concern
Owner, CPA, Monarch Investment and Management Group
coloradoconcern.com
(Incognito mode works).
He went to Iowa the year before Gable became head coach and ran cross country for them. He became a CPA. He went out on his own to start his first real estate investment firm in 1992.
I don't see anything wrong with how he made his fortune or chooses to spend it.
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There is not even any proof the HR report nutjob is the same person. An anonymous message board seeems like a good place to claim you are the rich savior of a once glorious program.
True. If I ever meet him, I'll ask. Just like I might ask Ira Lubert about "dark money lunchtime discussions," the next time he's within arm's reach. Odds of either of these happening, slim to none.
I personally believe the poster is the Bob Nicholls based on our exchanges. Also, if he wasn't the real Bob Nicholls, I would think this would've been discovered, reported, and the handle banned.
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The more super rich pouring money into wrestling programs the better imo. I wish every program had at least one mega booster.
Far from it. Self-made man through real estate investment and property management. Sounds to me like he didn't grow up much different than I did in a hard working family and from modest means. Biggest difference seems he grew up outside of Chicago while I Pittsburgh.
He is the principal owner of Monarch Mountain, a ski resort in Colorado. He is CEO, President, and Owner of Monarch Investment and Management, Group.
If you want to put a face to a name and some background leading to his current station in life you can read this:
Bob Nicolls — Colorado Concern
Owner, CPA, Monarch Investment and Management Group
(Incognito mode works).
He went to Iowa the year before Gable became head coach and ran cross country for them. He became a CPA. He went out on his own to start his first real estate investment firm in 1992.
I don't see anything wrong with how he made his fortune or chooses to spend it.
He's still a dick. (@PSUer1989 makes a good point. Maybe the psycho on GIA is a poser.)
I'm not sure why the frowning face @98lberEating2Lunches
This dude instigates the ped stuff on HR/GIA. I appreciate the background info that he did well and made some coin in real estate. But he's still a dick.
I was going to say "I've known and continue to know a lot of dicks." but then I thought "Phrasing!"
Fact is the general family consensus is my Dad was a bit of a dick (God rest his soul... should never speak ill of the dead.), my older brothers (all alive) can be dicks (Dickish tendencies increase with family seniority, IMHO), and, yes, despite being the youngest male, I have been known "to be a dick."
In 36 years working in large enterprises, I have come across, what I consider, my fair share of dickish behaviors.
But I digress. Under certain circumstances/stress/triggers, many people tend toward acting like a dick. If I had a son and they did, I would say to them,"It's not that you are a dick. It's that you are exhibiting dickish behavior. Let's work on eliminating that behavior together." 😃
Should a true non-dick refrain from categorically labeling another, whom they've never met or seen in a variety of settings, a dick?
For me, the answer is yes.
Yes, I don't agree with bringing up "PED state" as a wrestling board retort. I have posted to Bob my reasons. I understand why it's done. I personally wouldn't do it.
He's a douche bag. He has an ass hoke face. 🙂Far from it. Self-made man through real estate investment and property management. Sounds to me like he didn't grow up much different than I did in a hard working family and from modest means. Biggest difference seems he grew up outside of Chicago while I Pittsburgh.
He is the principal owner of Monarch Mountain, a ski resort in Colorado. He is CEO, President, and Owner of Monarch Investment and Management, Group.
If you want to put a face to a name and some background leading to his current station in life you can read this:
Bob Nicolls — Colorado Concern
Owner, CPA, Monarch Investment and Management Group
(Incognito mode works).
He went to Iowa the year before Gable became head coach and ran cross country for them. He became a CPA. He went out on his own to start his first real estate investment firm in 1992.
I don't see anything wrong with how he made his fortune or chooses to spend it.
That just plain does not sound nice, and I don't even know what an "ass hoke" is.
Must be crickside manners.
@WexfordWarrior - I hope this recent exchange doesn't push you follow thru on your prior consideration to put me on ignore. (🙏)
I don't like using the old ignore feature. I tried it but ended up bored/curious enough to read what was posted anyway. I have went through stretches over the years where I tried to ignore things that irritated me and my ignoring seemed to make no difference in my life. I have been married 38 years to same woman and we ignore each other at times, but it hasn't paid dividends for me. She bought a new RV once when I ignored her enough that I said sure whatever to one of her ramblings. I ended up driving that pig to South Padre and back on icy roads as a punishment for my brain numbed agreement. We all become victims of our habits I guess. My wife knows full and well I will agree to almost anything if it is far enough in the future. I will agree to join her cousins at a campground in Minnesota for a long weekend if it is asked a couple of months out. The lady is Pepperidge Farms when it comes to exactly quoting my approval back to me 7 weeks later when it is time to pack for the trip.
I hope that pig doesn’t read the forums!
I read this aloud to my wife of 35 years. She was laughing. Then she asked, "Is this guy your doppelganger?" Despite vocabulary not being her strong suit, we seem to be making a pretty good life together.
His business plan to earn his fortune was pretty brilliant - I.e. focus his efforts on the outskirts of not so sexy cities that aren’t worth the time of developers focusing on “sexier” cities and areas. And he’s certainly worked smart and hard to get where he is. His actions to put the squeeze on vulnerable tenants during and right after the pandemic are problematic. But that’s late-stage capitalism for you.Far from it. Self-made man through real estate investment and property management. Sounds to me like he didn't grow up much different than I did in a hard working family and from modest means. Biggest difference seems he grew up outside of Chicago while I Pittsburgh.
He is the principal owner of Monarch Mountain, a ski resort in Colorado. He is CEO, President, and Owner of Monarch Investment and Management, Group.
If you want to put a face to a name and some background leading to his current station in life you can read this:
Bob Nicolls — Colorado Concern
Owner, CPA, Monarch Investment and Management Group
(Incognito mode works).
He went to Iowa the year before Gable became head coach and ran cross country for them. He became a CPA. He went out on his own to start his first real estate investment firm in 1992.
I don't see anything wrong with how he made his fortune or chooses to spend it.
Bully for him - he’s still a pork-faced dickhead. I’m not interested in paeans to a guy who leverages Sandusky on message boards 12 years down the road - certainly not on this board
We all can take shots at his business practices. Real estate management is a tough business. Soft hearts don't survive in that arena. We can mock him for his continued references to us as Ped State. He's earned those jabs by his (some would say) "dickish" behavior.
The one thing I would love to see disappear is referring to him as Racist Bob. I have no idea what lies in his heart, or most anyone else's for that matter. I do know that most of us have behaved in certain ways previously that would embarrass us today. I think we all carry some burden of racism regardless of or skin color or religious beliefs. All we can do is learn and try to be better about those things every day we walk the earth. I know that I'll be a work in progress in that regard until they plant me under a tree. When Bob is referred to as "Racist Bob" here I cringe every time. Can we just leave that moniker off this forum and just focus on his boneheaded comments?
The one thing I would love to see disappear is referring to him as Racist Bob. I have no idea what lies in his heart, or most anyone else's for that matter. I do know that most of us have behaved in certain ways previously that would embarrass us today. I think we all carry some burden of racism regardless of or skin color or religious beliefs. All we can do is learn and try to be better about those things every day we walk the earth. I know that I'll be a work in progress in that regard until they plant me under a tree. When Bob is referred to as "Racist Bob" here I cringe every time. Can we just leave that moniker off this forum and just focus on his boneheaded comments?
If he’s going to tar us with the same brush re Sandusky - even though none of us had anything to do with that and want pedophiles thrown in a fire - it’s only fair he gets lumped in with the racists throwing bottles at our black athletes and yelling slurs at (checks notes) Nate Jackson, Austin Gomez, Mark Hall, and Kyven Gadson, among others.
Like Real Estate Management, message boarding is a tough business - soft hearts don’t survive. Bob’s a self-professed “street fighter” - he’ll be fine. Again, he’s the guy who eschews anonymity in order to be glorified over there and act like a big swinging dick.
He’s got a lot of energy for all the lame brain Bird-driven conspiracies on that board, but never says a peep about the bad, dare I say racist, behavior of recent Carver crowds. That says a lot about him.
Bob and I are practically neighbors. If you would like to arrange a detente, I’d be happy to represent the board, in the most mature of manners, obviously. Put something on our calendars. Maybe dinner after the world teams challenge tournament. I will have the old lady sous vide some grass fed filet.
As soon as he stops referring to PSU as Ped State, we can stop referring to him as Racist Bob.
Deal?
I've been wrong before! 👀
Even if he was motivated by ego, why would a 65 year old man in his position engage on a wrestling board? I'm retired, a nobody, and have a bit of a ego too, but I don't use my real name.
And his most recent terse reply, well I don't believe much in coincidence. It gets curiouser and curiouser
@PSUer1989 might be right. Maybe it's not really the real Bob Nicholls. Maybe someone is trying to teach me a lesson.
And maybe whomever posts under that moniker does so to project the persona of being a dick.
Somehow someday, I vow I am going to get to the bottom of this! Just don't count the days like they are on GIA for their next big signing.
Could we meet under a bridge somewhere just in case the detente doesn't go well? The sous vide grass fed filet would still be welcome and a nice touch. Or not.
The NCAA/B1G just wanted this to go away. It wouldn't have been difficult to show intent and gender bias. The ignorance/bad math was heavily skewed towards men's programs and not women's programs. For example, Iowa somehow miscalculated the formula for nine men's programs with an excess of 19.52 combined scholarships. Using the same formula/bad math for the women's programs should have also resulted in overages as well, right? Yet, Iowa was in compliance with every women's program and awarded no additional scholarships to their female student athletes over the audited four year period.
Indiana was almost as bad with an additional 16.52 to their men's teams and a combined excess of only 1.07 scholarship equivalents to the women's golf and softball teams.
How did these two schools only manage to miscalculate scholarship equivalents on the men's side?
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Sorry, I just saw a Ped state post by him today , I have no sympathy if he gets it back. The odds are much greater that he's a racist than 500,000 or so people connected to a university support pedophilia.
I can understand your rationale, if all universities had been providing equal opportunity to women athletes.
A simpler explanation is women sports were not fully funded to NCAA maximum allowed grants-in-aid levels. To the degree this would've likely occurred, it may not have mattered that the bad formula was used, because use of the correct formula would not have resulted in overawards.
I believe this is a plausible explanation.
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Title IX was 1972. The NCAA said the issue dated to the late 1970s.
www.chicagotribune.com
NCAA SET TO PUNISH BIG 10
The NCAA has censured the Big 10 and will withhold $75,000 in grant money to the conference as penalties for a faulty league policy that allowed seven schools to hand out more scholarships than per…
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What bobs tenants should do I don't know what all the fuss is about with he gives little room for any other opinion of himself other than he's a dick. End of story
To each their own. As a taunt, it doesn't impugn me in any way.
Earlier I admitted my (3) older brothers could behave dickishly. And when they taunted me, it used to upset me. I thought "Why would a brother behave that way to his younger sibling?"
My mother said what mothers say about "sticks and stones" and advised "Just ignore them, and they will stop." So, seeing my my mother wise, that's what I did. She would rhetorically ask, "If you believe or know it's untrue, why let it bother you?"
Sure, the taunting would recur periodically, older brothers as they are, but each time it would be of a shorter duration and less effective. As a grown ass man, these things are to me as water off a duck's back.
Nobody can control the behavior of another. However, each can control how they react to such behavior. I maintain continual awareness of other's words, discern their intent, and remain vigilant not to let them in any way disturb my peaceful state of mind, for that is worth preserving. Of course, it's always a work in progress. I'm far from perfect.
Also, for accuracy, it was "Ped Valley" (not "State").
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Thanks. I assumed Title IX didn't cause the NCAA to reduce in men's scholarships until like 1993, when wrestling's were reduced from 11 to 9.9.Title IX was 1972. The NCAA said the issue dated to the late 1970s.
NCAA SET TO PUNISH BIG 10
The NCAA has censured the Big 10 and will withhold $75,000 in grant money to the conference as penalties for a faulty league policy that allowed seven schools to hand out more scholarships than per…
Still, my other point about some Universities not necessarily awarding full compeiments of allowable scholarships remains a distinct possibility.
Might not have changed that much, if I read this correctly:
These 20 universities stiffed female athletes the most on scholarships. We asked them why
Some of the biggest college sports programs in the NCAA short female athletes on scholarship dollars, a USA TODAY investigation found. We asked why.
www.usatoday.com
But for accuracy, it might have and then again it might not have, no?Thanks. I assumed Title IX didn't cause the NCAA to reduce in men's scholarships until like 1993, when wrestling's were reduced from 11 to 9.9.
Still, my other point about some Universities not necessarily awarding full compeiments of allowable scholarships remains a distinct possibility.
Might not have changed that much, if I read this correctly:
These 20 universities stiffed female athletes the most on scholarships. We asked them why
Some of the biggest college sports programs in the NCAA short female athletes on scholarship dollars, a USA TODAY investigation found. We asked why.www.usatoday.com
Right. Without actual underlying data nobody can really know.
A few University's did overaward a couple women's sports (golf, softball, swimming & diving), including Indiana.
Don't know the scholarship limits for those. Don't know school's emphasis on in state vs out of state talent for any sport or gender. Without this information it is hard to say how egregious any one university might be in one men's sport compared to women as a percentage of overawards of typically awarded scholarships using the correct formula.
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Lol guys - Nicolls is a scumbag but trying to lecture him when you are on a Iowa message board when he is their biggest donor and 90% of their fans love those jokes won't end well. He is a rich man but in the grand scheme of things, he's pretty irrelevant beyond being able to buy Iowa wrestlers/facilities. Surely doesn't have some national platform where people hear him say it over and over.
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