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Al_4_ISU

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  1. It’s not “Texas’s fault”. It’s ESPN’s. Im just saying they used Texas’s slump as ammo in their campaign to make the Big 12 untenable to the largest brands.
  2. That was essentially due to a decades-long media blitz that was intentionally designed to weaken the Big 12. Texas's slump was definitely a factor in that narrative too. If Colt McCoy doesn't get hurt in the 2010 natty and Texas wins that game, it's a huge blow to what was a budding SEC superiority narrative. If Texas had maintained and OU had done something with their playoff opportunities, the Big 12 would have had less of a perception problem. The fanbases were still not as big as the SEC or Big 10, and I think what happened might have happened anyways due to money, but the bias toward the SEC was absolutely related to the Big 12's biggest brands not having high end national success on the field in that time frame.
  3. I think there's certainly a chance. I'm just not sure those do any more for you than schools like UNLV or Air Force. I would be curious to get the Texan perspective, but from the outside it seems like Texas State and UTSA are the G5 Texas schools with the biggest upside in terms of actually drawing a following. I might have put UNT there at one point, but it seems like those places have more of a base for whatever reason.
  4. Yeah, it seems to me like those schools all had mostly equal worth (agree on SJSU) so a merger with Wazzu/Ore State under the Pac moniker always made the most sense to me.
  5. I think it's funny that the MWC formally said "nah" to the merger proposal and is now getting raided by those they rejected. It's like they learned nothing from the Pac 12 rejecting the Irate 8. It's the exact same scenario playing out the next rung down the ladder.
  6. I think the Dakotas and Montanas have a pretty good thing going being the kings of FCS. But it feels like there's a latent obsession with "MOAR" in this sport. I would bet they all get better TV ratings than UTEP or NMSU too. Those are small pop states, but they are football crazy, and the Dakota schools bring in a ton of kids from neighboring states (Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska) with cheap tuition.
  7. Also - this might be where the Dakotas announce an FBS jump up. Maybe not to the Pac, but to whatever coalescences around the MWC leftovers
  8. I’d like to see Air Force and Wyoming in there
  9. That was my first thought. Like, how? To me, the funniest part of this is that how he still manages to totally Dave Grohl the whole thing. "Yeah, I fucked up, but I'm totally gonna try and do the right now" and you kinda believe him. Also kind of amazed in this day and age that these dalliances weren't a little more leaked.
  10. User name gonna be checking out soon
  11. This. Two things that disgust me the most in this world are cops abusing their power, and men abusing women. It's hard for me to have any sympathy for Hill on any front, but the cops were totally over the top here in a completely unsurprising way.
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    I meant Trouble Boys. Brain fart based off previous error
  13. That’s what everyone eating it will call it. I know better than to use the C word on this site.
  14. High in the 60’s today. Vikes at noon. It’s soup season in the upper Midwest. Sautéed onions, garlic, shallots, serranos, poblanos, Hatches, and habaneros. Browned a pound of ground venison and a pound of ground pork. Dumped a can of beer, and quart jar of home grown tomato puree that’s simmered with a shit load of chili powder and cumin. Dutch oven will be sitting on my pellet grill at the lowest possible setting until half time.
  15. Did you get to Uncle Harry’s or Singlespeed? Love Cedar Falls
  16. Rare for El Assico
  17. Congrats today. You guys looked dominant.
  18. Yup. Here’s her victory drink
  19. Might have to make it a thing. And by “sober” I mean legally. I’ve had 3 beers since noon
  20. Holy shit. This is the first time I’ve been sober for a CyHawk game since I was 16. My heart rate was like 140 at the end
  21. I don't know why you wouldn't make that permanent.
  22. This guy has forever become known as "Hawkeyes On My Belly". One of the crucial points of debate in the Iowa/ISU rivalry, is that most ISU fans actually went to school there (why else would you would actively subject yourself to this torture?) and are relatively upwardly mobile productive citizens. Drive through a trailer court, and you won't see any Cyclone flags. You will see plenty of Hawkeye gear. HOMB is the living, breathing, embodiment of every conceit ISU fans hold towards Iowa fans. This is his house:
  23. Something that needs to be scrubbed from the internet forever. About 10-15 years ago, someone convinced a bunch of fairly nice mid-sized Midwestern cities that they needed to make the absolute cheesiest (yet unfortunately sincere) promo videos imaginable. Reinforce every stereotype about people in the middle of the country being out of touch rubes as you can in a 3 minute segment. The same people had a hand in this monstrosity: I will say this: that tap water can cure hangovers. Shit you not.
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