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Al_4_ISU

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  1. I'm stealing this from something I saw on Instagram, but sacrificing body parts for NFL success is some peak Midwest shit.
  2. I will gladly trade the admiration of opposing fans for an undefeated home slate any day.
  3. Kansas fans love to tell you how much ISU fans boo and how they’re above such nonsense and it’s the most ridiculous shit I’ve ever seen. Not because they’re wrong about ISU fans, but because they’re exactly the same. Its like all the tough guys over in the football board that make fun of Matt Campbell for arguing with the refs while they then post in 100+ page thread about a decades long Big 12 anti-Texas officiating conspiracy
  4. 7 month old is teething like a mother fucker so I feel that.
  5. Phases & Stages >>>>>>>> Red Headed Stranger
  6. I can suddenly empathize with the UT fans in the football forum. The rest of the world thinks we get all the calls, I thought the whole first half BYU could tackle us in the paint and we wouldn’t get a trip to the stripe out of it. To avoid the absurd hypocrisy displayed over there I’ll acknowledge that if literally everyone else thinks we got the calls, then we probably got the calls. Just glad to be at a point as a program and fanbase that we get a little Phog treatment. Good seats last night
  7. K State sucks hind tit, but outside of KU we’re their biggest rival. All they have left to play for is fucking our season up and they will absolutely do everything in their power to do just that.
  8. This was a solid episode. Stuck fish. Lewis immediately selling out AA for an undisclosed amount of Larry's inheritance. All of Larry and Freddy's lies unraveling in a classic Curb coincidence. Larry wedging himself into the gay couple's naming of their child. Maybe not as good as the dinner party a couple of episodes ago, but this was very much the bread and butter of the show. Seems like this last season is going to be a mix of some Curb greatness and a few clunkers here and there.
  9. I hadn’t watched the new episode yet and didn’t realize Lewis was in it. He was in damn rough shape.
  10. That's true as well. It still doesn't feel like even they are anywhere close to the Bears.
  11. Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kansas (I'm counting the Chiefs since such a large % of that metro is in Kansas), Pennsylvania, and Washington all have NFL teams and strongly embrace college football. Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, NY/NJ, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Maryland/DC, California, Arizona, and Colorado all have NFL but are hit and miss on supporting their major colleges. What's interesting is it isn't regional, political, or anything like that.
  12. Northwestern regularly had good seasons in the past 15 years and can't get any traction in Chicago. Minnesota has had some decent teams recently, albeit playing a terrible Big 10 West schedule. It doesn't matter if Michigan is bad, it's a big deal in the Detroit area. It doesn't matter if Texas or Aggy sucks, it's a big deal anywhere in Texas. I think Minnesota does it as a way to differentiate themselves from their neighbors. Because Iowa and the Dakotas don't have pro sports, big timing college sports is a way for them to say "we're more important than that and don't have time to waste on such trivial pursuits". Minnesotans love nothing more than feeling superior to their neighbors. With Chicago I think it has more to do with NW being a private school and so there aren't a ton of alumni living in town and developing a connection with the city wasn't fostered 50 years ago and it's just never taken off. Illinois is far enough way to just be out of that world altogether. I think in the northeast it's a matter of people having incredibly small worlds. Anything outside the metro they live in almost doesn't exist. Syracuse is just too far from NYC. Even Rutgers is, and that's in Jersey so they aren't going to attach to it. BC? Not sure there. Might be the private thing again. I think there are unique factors in all of these situations that contribute more than their the on-field successes. A lot of college fanhood comes from attachments to the institution or places the teams represent.
  13. Tugler going down is a big deal in taking out Dickinson. Obviously I badly want Houston to lose, but this is giving me some legitimate hope that it's possible.
  14. Allegedly it's one of the worst kept secrets in Iowa City that the McCaffery kid is a beard. I couldn't give any less of a shit, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's true. Clark is in her 4th year.
  15. I guarantee there are more dudes in Cleveland locked into the Bucks than there are guys in Minneapolis locked into the Gophers or guys in Chicago locked into NW or Illinois. My point is that some markets that are really into football just eschew college ball completely, while other similar markets embrace both college and pro with relatively equal fervor.
  16. There are pockets all over the country like this and it always surprises me. Minneapolis, Indianapolis, and Chicago couldn't give two shits about college football, and are rabid about the NFL. Milwaukee, all of Ohio, Detroit, and Kansas City all have major college football followings as well as hardcore NFL allegiance.
  17. And one of those guys actually turned out to be a shitty head coach.
  18. To stay included. They'll make the most money and get the most exposure doing this. If the SEC and Big 10 went off and did their own thing, I think they would make less money than they currently do, but they'd still make a lot of money. And I think this playground "you can't sit with us" mentality drives as much of college football's decision making as rational thought. So even though everyone would probably be worse off in this breakaway scenario, it's still a very realistic/plausible threat and that will motivate the Big 12 and ACC (and G5s) to go along with it. College football isn't just the power leagues vs everyone else. There's at least 3 tiers, and maybe 4, of conferences. The Big 12 and ACC aren't on the same financial footing as the SEC and Big 10, but they're a long ways ahead of the guys behind them. And there are probably a couple tiers in the G5 with MWC and AAC at the top and CUSA and the MAC at the bottom, and the Sun Belt kind of between. Eventually I think the top brands in the SEC and Big 10 wonder ask themselves why they continue to subsidize the Purdues and Mississippi States of the world. I think that is more likely than the current SEC and Big 10 breaking away from everyone else, and likely the next frontier of conference consolidation. The only part that's objectionable to me is the guaranteed bye for the SEC and Big 10 winners. Them having more guaranteed bids doesn't really bother me. And I'd much rather have the Big 12 getting a couple bids to this dance than not. All this highlights how unfortunate it is that there has never been a central governing body in the sport. 8 9 team geographically aligned conferences/divisions who's champions play in the playoffs would be so much better than what we're going to get.
  19. I'm pretty sure the entire season has been filmed.
  20. I'm not sure that they're any more this way than any other school. There's a lot of talent in the northeast and one bad hire won't erase that memory.
  21. In Iowa, you could plant got damn near every acre of the state and produce something, so for the most part around here it is actually taking productive ground out of production. Granted, we generally put it on land that doesn't produce as well for whatever reason, but there are places were you see 160 acres of prime ground restored to prairie. I dig it, personally. Good for pheasant numbers.
  22. They seem like an obvious ACC backfill if anyone gets out. Doesn't really harm the football profile and raises hoops.
  23. I'm pretty sure that was a thing around the Great Depression era. There's also a modern equivalent called CRP where the government pays you to put farmland back into tallgrass prairie. We have a few hundred acres of it. It's not them literally paying you not to plant, but that's really what it exists for. Incentivizing farmers to grow fewer crops.
  24. Really glad this shit show was relegated to ESPN+
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