Previous post on the topic here.
So, according to Black Heart, Gold Pants (a great blog for Hawkeye football news and entertainment), it cost $370,000 to paint the water tower outside of Kinnick Stadium.
And they only paint it every 10-15 years.
And they did it 3 years ago.
And the UIHC is every bit as much the huge bureaucratic giant three-toed sloth one would expect from an organization that’s state owned, involved with medicine, and associated with a University.
In other words, if you start introducing the idea to paint the water tower with a Hawkeye theme to the various UIHC committee meetings, long term vision proposals, scoping exploratory commissions, etc now, you might have a chance to get it painted black, or gold, but not both, the next time they paint it in 2016-2021.
I don’t see why we couldn’t paint a black Tiger Hawk over the existing white for something more like $30-40k. It would take relatively little paint (compared to painting the whole thing), none of the intricate detail parts on the uprights, and since I would assume part of the expense is using special paint that will protect the metal underneath, that’s already taken care of by the existing coat, so you could use normal house paint (maybe). And then you could still do my awesome Hawk Signal idea (see the end of the previous post for the reference).