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Posts posted by Al_4_ISU
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25 minutes ago, Iceman said:
Ames is most definitely NOT a suburb of Des Moines. LOL.
Check back in 10 years. There's about 5 miles of real open country between the south end of Ames and the northern most Des Moines suburb.
It's not yet, but it will happen in my lifetime.
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We're all going to be in the same giant ass conference when the SEC and Big 10 raid the ACC in a few years anyhow.
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I could live in Ames again. It's only 40 minutes to downtown Des Moines, and while Des Moines isn't a truly big city, it's really urban for it's size (metro around 800K).
But I'm a small town guy. I grew up on a farm between a town of 150 and a town of 20ish. I live in a town of 3900 currently. It takes an incredible level of isolation for me to feel truly isolated.
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7 hours ago, PGFrog said:
I have been to both and there isn't much at either besides the schools.
Thought it was nicer to say that than the middle of fucking nowhere. Not Pullman bad, but not much around them.
That’s what I like about those places. You get that classic “college town” atmosphere because the community utterly revolves around campus.
Ive been to TCU, and it’s a beautiful campus in a great city, but it’s a totally different experience than a college town.
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The whole thing about them both being 2-3 hours from Kansas City was more to my point.
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5 hours ago, Satchel said:
Arrowhead? Why?
Do you know where Ames, Iowa and Manhattan, Kansas are?
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50 minutes ago, Js1 said:
Big 12 coaches pick KSU and ISU as the title game matchup in Dallas
Since the Big 12 discontinued the preseason media poll, On3 asked each coach to predict who would play in the league’s title game. The coaches were granted anonymity and could not vote for their own team.
Kansas State led the way with eight votes, followed by Iowa State with seven, Arizona State had six and Texas Tech received five. TCU (three votes), Baylor (two votes) and Utah (one vote) were the other schools getting votes. Seven of the league’s 16 teams received votes.
I just looked up how feasible moving the Big 12 CCG to Arrowhead would be in this scenario, but unfortunately the Chiefs are home that evening.
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21 minutes ago, markstanco said:
You mean last year's version of ASU and Clemson? Because not this year.
Yes, last year. I meant to say "would have".
I think the ASU team that had you on the ropes would have handily beaten the Clemson team that you handily beat.
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The Big 12 will probably have the best last place team of any major conference and the worst first place team.
Although after last year's playoffs, it would be interesting to see the Big 12 and ACC champs play. I think ASU would mudholed Clemson.
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A priest told me once that we don’t pray because God intercedes and gives you what ask for, but rather we pray to help focus ourselves on what’s important to us, in order to help us be better examples of Christ’s love.
And I think way more people need to get that message on Sundays.
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Maybe he was miserable because huffed nuts his entire tenure there.
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21 minutes ago, LTbear said:
Montana vs NDSU in the 2023 semifinals was one of the most fun games I've ever been to, at any level.
I very much enjoyed watching them beat Iowa and KSU
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On 7/6/2025 at 12:25 PM, Steamboat1874 said:
Bison are always fun to watch.
Unless your school is playing them
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6 hours ago, Seasick Sailor said:
I really like Pinocchio in Vegas, the Black Dog and the Wandering Boy, and South Texas Lawman. Two covers out of ten songs is a bit much, but I guess we should just be thankful he’s still putting out good albums this late in his career.Those are my favorites too
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1 hour ago, Mittens said:
Same. And we likely wouldn't have the ridiculous concentration of power programs there is today.
This would be true had you guys not left the Big 12 as well.
TV wanted the power programs more concentrated and that wouldn’t have changed with a Pac 16.
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It would have failed, for many of the same reasons the Pac 12 failed
Thats an insane cultural disparity, and all the shit you guys talk on Big 12 schools applies more so to the Pac schools. Far away places that don’t care anywhere near as much about football.
The SEC is the only place it ever made sense for UT and OU to go outside of the Big 12.
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12 hours ago, DFW Horn said:
Well, it's not any worse than Northern Illinois to the MWC
Still can’t beat Cal and Stanford in the ACC
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22 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:
New Tyler Childers single dropped yesterday. Album July 24th. I don't hate it, but he's yet to recapture the magic of Purgatory IMO.
This song is older than Purgatory. One of his many fan favorites that never made it past a terribly recorded YouTube clip
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3 minutes ago, stc said:
people who go out of their way to point out "i have such diverse taste in music" are insufferable. oh wow, you like rap AND jazz. incredible! it's called being a music fan. other than your aunt franny who only listens to polka, actual music fans listen to a whole array of music. i've never once found someone with a record collection that only contains one genre. these must be the same people who think the weather in their state is special "if you don't like the weather in (insert state) just wait 5 minutes and it will change!". no shit, that's what the weather does everywhere. /rant
While I completely agree with your general premise, I had a buddy who lived in SoCal for 5 years and somewhere after year 3 got sick and tired of the weather never fucking changing.
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52 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:
I think the last few years have disabused them of that.
I feel like Stanford fans, at least, are in the camp of pure survival (those that will do anything to preserve non-football/Olympic sports and still have a football team and or figure out a way to retain all the other sports without a football team).
I can see them joining this non-Power Pac12 and having a competitive football team and still retaining and having success in the non-football sports.
The ones who are all about academics and don't care about sports would rather us just join the Ivy League or create a West Coast Ivy League.
Cal and Stanford are going to use academic reputation to recruit, and not to make decisions about conferences.
This seems like a far more logical way of operating.
53 minutes ago, 'stache said:The Big 10 only says that because it was already that way not the other way around. The schools that were members for a century were large well funded institutions and had AAU status when shit started blowing up. They proved it’s flexible when they took Nebraska who was already on their way out of the AAU. If a lesser academic institution was in the neighborhood with massive athletics media value they’d take them in a heartbeat that just doesn’t exist up there.
The Big 10 is always going on about their academic consortium, like they can only collaborate with schools that are part of their athletic conference, academically.
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Seems to me the goal of the Pac was to become the best non-power league and the path to do that was by getting the serious MWC schools on board.
Now they’re the only conference besides the MAC to exist solely on the same side of the Mississippi, and have the largest G6 (we have to call it that, right?) fanbases in one spot.
I think this is a league that understands their position really well and has put together a compelling product that I’ll be tuning into. Most of the time, the G6 rep will come out of here, I suspect. In hoops, they will be extremely salty and there will be a debate as to whether they’re a high or mid major.
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2 hours ago, PGFrog said:
The biggest red herring out there when it comes to conferences.
Not for some schools.
I think it’s utterly moronic to think who you play sports with says anything about your academics, but that’s 100% how Stanford and Cal think, as well as large swaths of the Big 10.
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Fuckin’ love Rocco. Dude’s got the winning gene where he just finds ways to make big plays in the crunch. Downside is he’s a little bit of a gunslinger and when he throws picks (which isn’t often) they almost always end up being pick 6s. He’s a very effective runner, although it’s not a cornerstone of his game.
As a human being, he seems like a great guy. His teammates love him, and after a town in Iowa had a school shooting in the spring of ‘24, he put on a free camp for the kids there.
He’s gonna be 3rd or 4th round guy, and likely have a long career as a backup and elite locker room guy. Then again, there’s a lot of Purdy in his game and maybe he’ll go beyond that.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
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They did. They come to Ames in '26, and then in '27 the game finally won't be played (unless we both make CCG). It will be 5 years without Farmageddon in Manhattan. A lot of KSU folks aren't real thrilled about it.
This is nothing but a boon for us.