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  1. This was true of the Pac 12 game as well and it did terribly. The Big 12 will get good enough ratings to justify it's payout - the networks have years of data on games not involving OU and UT and when the other programs are good or bad to make an estimation of value. It won't get near as good of ratings as the Big 10 or SEC and that's why it makes less money. A couple games involving teams that have sucked this year on arguably the best Saturday slate of the season not drawing beyond their fanbases isn't (or shouldn't be) surprising to anyone.
  2. Even in the 80's? Wasn't every member of the SWC caught up in some kind of cheating scandal in the decade prior to the league's dissolution, like even Rice? My comment was also more directed at the poster who seemed to be accusing Texas of cheating than the Texas fans defending their program. I've never thought of Texas as some sleazy program who was out there money whipping kids prior to NIL. My assumption is that every school in a power conference, and many who aren't, have had boosters provide some form of impermissible benefit over the years. That doesn't mean I think everyone was like Pony Express era SMU or the SEC of the past 25 years. I know those were on completely different levels. Just that some level of cheating is universal and finger pointing about it in the era of NIL seems petty.
  3. Hasn't every school (or it's boosters) cheated some over the years? Jesus, who gives a fuck.
  4. If I was gonna let ISU football actually depress me I would have bit lead before I could legally drive
  5. Yes. For reasons that have nothing to do with football.
  6. Quite the contrary, honestly. Because we don't expect much, our football games are just big parties where people aren't there because they really need the team to win, but because they just want to have a good time with friends and family while rooting for their schools. Both schools have great tailgate scenes. We don't get anywhere near the handwringing, misplaced emotional attachment, and general psychotic fan behavior that really high levels of success tend to create. Who's had more fun with their football program in the past decade: Iowa State fans or Texas fans? You guys are perpetually disappointed and disgruntled because you know what the mountaintop looks like, and you aren't there yet. We don't know what the mountaintop looks like, we know we can't get there, and we're fine with that. We're going to have fun anyways. When we crack about the team ruining our lives, it's a joke. It seems like with a lot of blue blood fanbases, it's closer to reality. Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and all that shit.
  7. On top of that, they have a very relevant in-house case study of wanting too much. In 2001 or so, they fired Dr. Tom Davis their long time basketball coach (well, actually they just refused to renew his contract - it was the most Midwestern passive aggressive way to fire someone) because he couldn't get past the Sweet 16 and never won the Big 10. Their basketball team hasn't done jack shit in the tournament since. They hired Steve Alford who had some talented teams that completely flamed out and shit the bed. Then they hired Todd Lickliter (Brad Stevens' boss at Butler) who sucked aggressively and who's tenure culminated in his comically short and unathletic son getting minutes at PG. They've tolerated Fran McCaffery being slightly above average because they're fucking terrified of being terrible. The whole thing is really quite Iowan if you understand the psyche of the state. ISU fans aren't any different. Matt Campbell could lose out this year and his job wouldn't be in jeopardy because we're just thankful for being decent in 5 straight seasons.
  8. The last time we beat OU, the cornhead took a shit at half time and I raced back to town and watched the 4th quarter live. It was a great day!
  9. Because at this point Brian Ferentz is a side effect of Kirk Ferentz. If you force out Brian, you lose Kirk, and if Iowa makes the wrong hire, they could head to a very dark place. Do you even Outback Bowl, brah?
  10. I have little doubt in my pessimistic heart that they'll continue to draw bafflingly easy schedules on a regular basis even with the end of divisions. They'll somehow always end up with healthy doses of NW, Rutgers, Indiana, Purdue, and Maryland on top of their guaranteed games with Minnesota and Nebraska.
  11. I know Hawkeye fans better than they know themselves.
  12. Iowa fans are perfectly fine winning just enough to go to a bowl game in a place that's warmer than Iowa between Xmas and New Year's. As long as they usually win against us. Ferentz has checked those boxes very well in the past decade, in large part because the Big 10 West makes the Big 12 North look like murderer's row, and Matt Campbell refuses to actual try and beat Ferentz. The one time he did was essentially by accident and a result of Spencer Petras being possibly the worst P5 QB ever. Until Iowa fans start voting with their wallet, which probably isn't going to happen, the University has absolutely no incentive to conduct themselves any differently. Iowa fans are all pissed off this week, but look at their schedule. They will win out, go to the Big 10 Championship game, get their heads absolutely stoved in by whomever wins the East, and then end up in the Cap One Bowl or maybe even an NY6 game where they won't really care about the result, they'll just be glad to have an excuse to visit Florida in the dead of winter.
  13. Given how our exceedingly mediocre receiving corps ate their lunch on Saturday, I can't blame him. Dude got fucking torched.
  14. Stanford and Cal made it pretty clear how they felt about being associated with flyover state farm colleges in 2021. Really, we were just doing them a favor.
  15. I've been handling feed/seed bags my whole life and I quit trying to figure it out. Carry a fucking utility knife and call it a day.
  16. It's pretty well out there that the reason the Big 12 didn't pursue any more Pac 12 schools was because ESPN and Fox weren't going to pay for them. I don't know why the TV partners would come back and bless the addition of Wazzu and Oregon State now.
  17. I highly doubt it, but I'd be cool with it. The current Locked On Big 12 guy is a dumbass.
  18. I think that's likely. The way the original post was worded made it sound like Prime might leave Boulder for UVA, or something like that. That ain't gonna happen.
  19. Man, I can feel this one. A month after the trial I referenced in my previous post, I was a passenger in a car crash. My mom was driving, and she stopped about 50 feet short of a stop sign on a gravel road that crossed a paved highway. She started off and entered the intersection not realizing a pick up was approaching from the west. She ran into the bed of the truck, which caused it to roll over. The drive wasn't wearing a seat belt, and (I swear to Christ it went down this way) I watched his body fly through the windshield and hit the pavement. My mom was an RN and ran out to do CPR, while I ran to the nearest farm house (1/2 mile away) to call an ambulance. This was in March of 2000, so there were no cell phones. At least once a week I see that guy flying through the windshield. My family got sued by his family, and that whole process really sewed the seeds of my parents' eventual divorce 7 years later.
  20. My freshman year of high school (1999-2000) was pretty trying. In November of '99, I was sitting around with some of my buddies in the lobby after lunch. We got an hour for lunch, and after you were done eating, everyone would just hang out in the lobby until 1PM and classes started back up. We got yakking about how the town next to us got a day off of school because someone called in a bomb threat. About 5 years earlier, someone called a bomb threat into our school and they just sent us outside to play all day. As a bunch of 14 year olds, we all thought this was hilarious and we should do the same and get a day off of school. So one by one, we all went into the bathroom and wrote something on the wall of one of the toilet stalls about some kind of bomb. I kinda chickened out, and wrote "if this is erased before October 31, the school will blow up". I felt like I'd done my part to go along with it, but hedged by putting a past date which would make it obvious that this wasn't a real threat. This was on a Thursday and we had Friday off for conferences or something. Next Monday, riding the bus to school, we hear that once we get to school everyone is getting sent home because they found a bomb threat in the school and SWAT teams and dogs were there. My heart absolutely sank. I had no expectation that anyone would take this seriously. Keep in mind this was before we had school shootings in America every week. As soon as I got to school, I went into the principal's office, took responsibility, told them what had happened, and that this was just a prank no one really thought would get taken seriously. They immediately had me questioned by the town cop, and asked me to indicate the other people involved. I refused to give anyone else up. I was immediately suspended for the rest of the semester, and my case was turned over to the juvenile court system. I spent my suspension working on the farm. We were pattern tiling (essentially plumbing crop land to help water drain off it) a lot in those days, so I was out in the elements (November/December on the IA/MN border) working 50 hours a week as a 14 year old. After the juvenile court officer processed the case, he recommend to the county attorney that I be placed on an informal probation. His conclusion was that I was a good kid who did something stupid, owned up to it, and no one got hurt. The county attorney took that recommendation and wiped his ass with it. He charged me with Terrorism, a Class D Felony in Iowa. He said the reason for this was to send a message that this wouldn't be taken lightly, but it was obviously a combination of my refusal to roll over on the other kids, and my last name. My grandpa was the State Representative for our county at the time, and a political rival of said county attorney. I was allowed to go back to school for second semester, and the trial was slated for the end of February. Because of what a hoopla the whole thing had become, and due to some other trouble I'd gotten into (parents had caught me drinking the previous summer, and some petty vandalism that I was never criminally implicated in), they decided to have me try doing a semester at the Catholic high school in Rochester, MN where my mom worked. No one there would know or care anything about the case I was involved in, so I was all for it as I felt like I had become a complete pariah. At the trial, the judge almost laughed the county attorney out of court. I was convicted of 5th Degree Criminal Mischief, a simple misdemeanor, for the act of vandalizing the bathroom wall. My punishment was 10 hours of community service, which I completed by mowing the lawn of our church a handful of times. In the end it amounted to absolutely nothing, but the whole experience was absolutely terrifying, emotionally draining, painful, and ultimately it steeled me into the person I am today in many ways. I loved going to school in Rochester, and spent the rest of my HS career there. Leaving my high school in a podunk town of 800 people with the same 30 kids I'd had class with my whole life and going to school in a much larger setting exposed me to all sorts of new ideas, and definitely got me to think beyond a small town mentality. I learned that being honest and taking your lumps when you fuck up tends to lead to a better outcome in the end. If I had kept my mouth shut, I'd probably have never gotten caught. They claimed they could do handwriting analysis, but they never figured that out on the other guys. Over the years, every single one of the other guys has come up to me and apologized for not taking their share of the blame. Some of them honestly seem truly guilt-wracked over the whole deal. Having to spend that month and a half out working like an adult was an extremely formative experience as the working conditions were often miserable (cold and muddy). I almost never lose my shit in truly trying situations, and this experience is absolutely the reason why. It just gave me a really unusual perspective that's benefitted me more often than not. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but I'm better off for having been through it.
  21. Yup. From as long as I can remember, I've been drawn to them. I had a road map of the state of Iowa tacked to the wall above my computer station in my apartment in Ames. One day one of my buddies stopped over and came in kind of quietly. He said he watched me look at the map for 5 minutes before I realized he was standing in the hallway.
  22. Damn. That last paragraph is myself to a T. Must be a small town kid thing.
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