National Cyclone Club raffles off trip to game

Chris Mackey

The Cyclone Gridiron Club is offering a chartered trip to West Point, N.Y. for the Cyclones’ football game against the Army, and the National Cyclone Club is raffling off a trip for two to the game.

The trips are similar and both include airfare, ground transportation and hotel accommodations, and the Gridiron Club is offering a tour of West Point Military Academy. The Cyclone Club trip’s winners will be traveling with the football team.

There is one glaring difference between the two trips, however.

To travel with the Gridiron Club, those interested have to pay anywhere from $775 to $975, depending on if they are a member of the club or not. With the Cyclone Club’s trip, anyone is eligible by purchasing a raffle ticket.

Logan Scholl, senior in finance, said with all things being equal, he’d rather go on the Gridiron Club’s trip.

“Yeah, it would be cool to travel with the team, but it would be more interesting to tour West Point,” he said. “There’s a lot of history there.”

Scholl said there would be no way he or any other college student would be able to afford the trip.

“It’s a pretty cool idea, but it would only be older people that could go on that trip,” he said. “I don’t have $800 to go to a football game.”

“We see people on the team all the time at school,” said Ryan King, senior in computer engineering. “You don’t get many chances to tour a prestigious military academy like West Point.”

Jeff Rudisill, senior in animal ecology, would rather travel with the team than see West Point.

“You go to West Point whenever,” he said. “It’s not every day you can travel with the team.”

The price of the raffle ticket is $10 and can be paid with cash or check at any Cyclone Club event or at the Jacobson Building.

There is no limit to the number of tickets that can be bought.

All proceeds will go to the scholarship fund.

The winner of the raffle will be announced at the Sept. 3 game against Illinois State.

Mike Mores, who is in charge of the raffle, was unavailable for comment.