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Al_4_ISU

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  1. I have no idea how I would handle this actually happening, but it wouldn't be pretty.
  2. We get 2 of them next year. ISU fans don’t care that much about the opponent brand. We look at that schedule and see a rivalry game to cap the season and a bunch of games we should win. We’ll average close to a sell out in every game unless the team just falls apart.
  3. You’re the only one that doesn’t get my point.
  4. Right. They overcame their disadvantage. Kids in those places have never been alive for a Nebraska conference championship, let alone a national one. You asked me what advantages Penn State has over Nebraska. Local talent is the big one.
  5. I'm going to assume my fellow Midwesterner lost a treasured family farm in the 80's. The sentiment of Sinkhole would appeal to a lot of folks who lived through that time in a very existential way. I've always taken it as the latter. She wants out of her dead relationship.
  6. The amount of football talent in that part of the world absolutely dwarfs what comes out of Nebraska. Pennsylvania is a massive state population wise, and Penn State is the only school with a statewide fanbase there. Really it's a lot of the same advantages that the other 3 have, but it's not quite on their level.
  7. I think what you're saying definitely applied to Michigan and Texas as recent examples. Both of those schools have (much) more local talent to draw off than Nebraska. Nebraska fans haven't been happy since 2001. There reaches a point where history can't save you without some other major advantage. I forgot to add how much partial qualifiers helped Nebraska, and that shit isn't coming back either. I think Nebraska can get back to being an 8-9 win team on a regular basis, but the 90's are over for a lot of reasons.
  8. I don't disagree, but they'll never be able to crack tOSU, Michigan, USC, and Penn State. All of those programs have a lot more built in advantages. Their ceiling right now seems like 5th place in the Big 10. Once Nebraska wasn't a Top 2 job in their league, they started a hard fade. I agree with you on Bama. Their renaissance was due to the best coach in the history of the sport being there. I don't think DeBoer is that.
  9. Well, I'm glad someone got to the bottom of that. Nebraska hasn't been above average in over 20 years. This is who they are now. UCLA lacks the give a shit to get off the mat.
  10. The issue with Nebraska is that their floor is much lower than of those other programs. LSU, Georgia, and Florida should absolutely be ahead of Nebraska. UCLA doesn't belong either. Especially with their terrible fan support. Clemson doesn't belong with the schools they're grouped in. None of the others compete for natties. MSU, Arky, and Wisconsin just have big followings and are usually solid.
  11. I swore I saw it earlier today, and now I can't find any confirmation. He looks close to the end in this latest season of Curb. Thanks for the laughs!
  12. Blue bloods (IMO): Bama, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan, USC, Florida, Florida State, LSU Almost Blue bloods: Penn State, Clemson, Tennessee, Auburn Blue blood level following (not results): Aggy, Nebraska
  13. So don't go to the games. We'll probably average 99% capacity again.
  14. Yeah, probably. So? There have only been 3 blue blood programs that have ever played in Ames, and one of them (Nebraska) no longer qualifies.
  15. This is the same point I've been trying to make. It's not that ISU fans don't care about beating Texas - we absolutely do/did. But "rivalry" means something that absolutely does not apply to what the ISU/Texas match up was, and ISU fans weren't dumb enough to try and convince anyone that it did. The players circling that game doesn't change any of that.
  16. This whole thing made me think how I can't remember the last time I ate Wendy's, and then I thought about how I can hardly remember the last time I ate fast food at all. At this point, it's only when I'm travelling.
  17. We're possibly arguing semantics. ISU fans strongly dislike Texas, and any blue blood on the schedule raises the stakes of the game beyond a standard opponent. It is a big deal when Texas comes to town. I've never heard anyone call Texas a rival. Did you catch the part about "ever"? For most of my life ISU played every team on that list every year.
  18. He's not a liar. I'm sure the team circled that game and cared more about beating the big bad blue blood than they did about beating similar programs. That doesn't mean the fans consider it a rivalry. Texas is a team people hate. Iowa's a rival. There's a difference. And hell yes we care. It was the last time Texas, a major program, was coming to town. That doesn't mean we think it's a rivalry. ISU averaged 99% capacity this season, and we only played one rival in Ames. For as much as you like to do the Dom Draper "I don't think about you at all" routine RE the I8, you make a lot of posts in this thread. Your continued attempts to shame me for participating in this thread are just laughable in their hypocrisy.
  19. Again, I've spent my entire life immersed in Iowa State fanhood, and these are the following schools I've heard anyone call a rival: Iowa Kansas State Kansas Missouri Nebraska That's it. Maybe there's a group of ISU fans who consider Texas a rival out there, but I've never met a single one of them nor come across one on Twitter or any ISU message board.
  20. Jarrod Hufford is not the average Cyclone fan. The players often feel differently about opponents than fans do.
  21. Hating someone doesn't mean you think they're a rival. I hate schools ISU has never even played. If you asked 100 ISU fans if they hated Texas, 90 of them would say yes. If you asked a 100 ISU fans if Texas was a rival, 90 of them would say no. I can't imagine KSU is any different.
  22. 73 on Monday afternoon. 4 this morning. Actual temps.
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