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  1. 7 minutes ago, Bevo14 said:

    Fuck Chip Brown and TCU. I'd be fine with ISU in the championship game though

    That makes two of us.

    Problem is, I just don't see it.  If we beat OU in Ames, we still have to beat TCU in Ft. Worth and you guys in Austin.  As good as Campbell has been, he's been unable to produce any offense against Texas whatsoever.  TCU is going to be out for revenge, and I just don't think we can get past them on the road.  That's two conference losses for sure, and I don't think we're going to get OU again.  Then we have to manage to break the Curse of Farmageddon and beat WVU at home, as well as OSU in Stillwater. 

    All of these games are winnable, but I just can't see us winning all of our toss ups.  For as many strides as we made last year, we lost a bunch of close games - a problem that's dogged us for 3-4 years.

  2. 7 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    Al.  Where is Al.  He can validate this guy's cajones.  Ace, we have several clones around here, one of whom is validated people.  He will flush you out, and you will live, and be welcome, or die by the sword.

    Ace is good shit.  We know each other in real life and share a few beers every fall.  I helped create WRNL with one of his best friends from our days at ISU, and thus we've tailgated many times over the years.  Hopefully doing it again in a month.  Mother fucker drives from Ft Worth to Ames (solid 10+hour drive) multiple times every season to grace Jack Trice with his presence.  It doesn't get more validated.

     

    Chip Brown is an idiot. We're a 7 or 8 win squad.

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  3. If this is better reserved for the Travel thread, please move.

    Looking to take a small (4 day) family vacation in December (Dad/step mom, wife and I) and we're checking possible options.  We're considering Austin due to the combo of milder weather,  lively culture, outdoor recreation, and my dad and I both hating "beach" vacations.  Austin fits the bill as well as anywhere, and I'm curious what the best hiking within an hour to 1.5 hours of Austin is.

    We both (dad and I) have pretty good endurance, and have hiked 40+ of the Colorado 14ers, so as much elevation gain and distance as we can get is good.  Preferably in the 10-15 mile range.  Is there any place in that area that provides this?  Would we be better doing San Antonio, or is that more of the same?

  4. 4 hours ago, Tired of Lurking said:

    Those pictures are fucking horrible. Yeesh.

    And I was on-board with trying to steal Smith for OC. Ugh. Was Herman on the staff when she was telling all the coaches wives? God I hope not.

    I think he was still at ISU when a lot of this happened

  5. 1 hour ago, Shmitty said:

    I sure hope so.

    How?  

    I sure hope so, but do you think his job is honestly in danger because of this?

    I'd think Campbell would be pretty high on the replacement list.

    On the flip side, if they think he's too raw he might be in Ames longer

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  6. 12 hours ago, Greg Focker said:

     

    For what it's worth I go to about 4 or 5 NFL games  a year and every single time is ee a jersey being worn by fans of completely unrelated teams. It's just a thing people do; I was watching the UT vs Osu game a few years ago in Austin and I saw aggie and Baylor jerseys there. A buddy of mine works most texas tech games and he says he sees longhorn jerseys at every game.

    Those people suck as well.

  7. 1 hour ago, elfenix said:

    there's no tomato in big mac sauce.  it's basically mayo, pickle relish, and mustard.  the color comes from turmeric. 

     

     

     

    eaten at applebee's twice.  once in collie station because that's what the girl wanted, and once in denton because they'd cover the drinking club fee. 

    Still disgusting.

  8. 6 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    You're nuts. McDonalds fries are crack. Their coke is the goat. Their burger patties are covered with onion and big mac sauce taste so who cares there. You're putting fast food on a pedestal

     

    Big Mac sauce?  Fuck that shit.  Thousand Island needs to die in a fire.  Ketchup + mayo is hell.  Pure hell.

  9. Subway survives because they have dick for overhead, and they're fucking everywhere.  You can be in the middle of buttfuck Nebraska, and that exit is going to have Subway.  There's nothing more than mediocre about it, but I'll stop there because I can get a much higher volume of food per calorie than McDonald's.  A 600 calorie turkey footlong will fill me up, and I won't feel like dying.  600 calories at McDonald's is half the amount of food, plus violent stomach craps in 60 miles.

    Arby's is alright.  It's fake meat, but the curly fries are legit.

     

    I've personally never understood why McDonald's is so popular.  It's a worse burger than literally every other fast food place and the fries are wildly overrated.  The value menu is the only attraction.  Same with Taco Bell.  Just fucking garbage, but it's cheap garbage.

  10. 50 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

    Maybe so, but the important question is, does The Wheel still serve beer in icy mugs and have greasy cheeseburgers?

    I remember getting pizza there from a booth that was opened to the patio area.  I think they were serving beer out of plastic cups, given the crowd.

    Bad ass Big 8 mural on the wall in there too.

  11. 19 minutes ago, SnowAggy said:

    First, I don't see any ISU fans saying Nebraska isn't a blue blood in this thread so fuck you.

    Second, take the ISU victories off UNLs wins total and compare them to UT.  Now take the KSU wins off and see what it looks like.  Typical Nebraska douchebag, uses wins against big 8 tomato cans to puff up profile then talks shit about them.

    Third, the discussion of "bluebloodedness" is as much or more about elasticity or memory of a program over time as it is about win totals.  Blue blooded programs have bad patches (HC hires) but can be counted upon to rectify those errors, make the required changes and win national championships or high major bowls in a relatively short period of time.  It's the blue bloods whose sine wave is either the flattest (tOSUs is pretty flat - that is, steady) or the tightest (FSU had a dip early on with Jimbo and then won a championship).

    If Nebraska is a blue blood we'll find out with Frost.  As I've already stated here somewhere, Frost will have the ability to raise money at UNL like no other coach before him.  He's a physical bridge from the Osborne era to now.  IMO UNL will be competing for the B1G West very soon, like next season soon and Frost will have them in the B1G Championship often.  

    I said "their fans think they're a blue blood".

    I think Nebraska was a blue blood.  I think they've lost that status at this point.

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  12. 14 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    Missouri never really even made it on my radar while they were in the B12.  I can of course remember our first B12 game ever against the Tigers in the monsoon, and I vaguely recall their QB eating boogers on national television, but other than that, I hardly ever noticed they were in the conference.

    I miss Nebraska, and Colorado was alright, but I have almost no recollection of this school that we spent 15 years with in the B12.

    A big part is that their fanbase didn't give much of a shit.  Looking at their current attendance in the SECSECSEC, they still don't.

    They could get up for a good season in football, and fill up KC for the basketball tournament, but that's the extent of it.

    Also, they left the Big 12 right when every game was starting to get aired every week, and the beginning of round robin.  I'm a lot more familiar with the Texas schools now that we play every year, and I can watch every game, than I was prior to 2011.

  13. 2 hours ago, bamachine said:

    ^I was speaking less about geography and more about cultural fit. 

    And I'd argue the same again.  The Big 8 had a pretty similar culture, outside of maybe CU.  The Big 12 added Texas schools to that mix, but they weren't that much out of place culturally.  

    Mizzou wanted Big 10 money and academia.

  14. 20 hours ago, bamachine said:

    You can have them back. They never really fit here anyway, not that they really fit the B12, they are more in the B10 footprint. The SEC should have taken WVU when they were offering, they were a much better fit.

    Disagree

    They were an original Big 8 school and had a naaaaasssty rivalry with KU (as well as a trophy game with us).  They bordered 4 other Big 12 states, compared to 2 Big 10 states (one of which shares with the Big 12).  

    Missouri absolutely belongs in the Big 12.  They might have had their sights set on the Big 10, but there's a use for a P5 conference between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains, and the Big 12 fit that bill.  Prior to realignment in 2010, there were two P5 schools west of the Mississippi and east of the Rockies that weren't in the Big 12 - Iowa and Arkansas.

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