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Al_4_ISU

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  1. I hadn’t watched the new episode yet and didn’t realize Lewis was in it. He was in damn rough shape.
  2. That's true as well. It still doesn't feel like even they are anywhere close to the Bears.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. And one of those guys actually turned out to be a shitty head coach.
  10. 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.
  11. I'm pretty sure the entire season has been filmed.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. They seem like an obvious ACC backfill if anyone gets out. Doesn't really harm the football profile and raises hoops.
  15. 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.
  16. Really glad this shit show was relegated to ESPN+
  17. CU, KU, and ISU are all pretty solid public schools. I think Utah is as well.
  18. I don’t think this is all that implausible. It would be the most hilarious shit ever too.
  19. I enjoy that one as well, but probably not using it as an example of great songwriting.
  20. Exactly. Nebraska's history is meaningless to anyone under the age of 35. Nebraska has a lot of resources and a great fanbase. So do a lot of schools. Any other blue blood that had a rough period recently before a major revival (Texas and Michigan come to mind) were A) relevant much more recently than Nebraska and B) have more inherent advantages. Nebraska could and likely will pick themselves up off the mat, but they aren't going back to the days of Tom Osborne beating the shit out of the Big 8 and playing OU to go to the Orange Bowl. Not unless a bunch of other programs that are currently doing much better crater for awhile at the same time. Their current ceiling is 8-10 wins and needing a down year for the rest of the Big 10 to make the playoffs. There are very few programs that will be capable of winning national titles in the next decade. Nebraska isn't one of them, and like much of the Big 10 are frankly more similar to the Big 12 and ACC schools at this point in time than they are to the schools who are capable of winning a natty.
  21. That's a legit deal nowadays.
  22. 17, Flowers, Lonely Girl, Alabama, Brooklyn Kid. He's not on the level of Evan Felker or the guys in this thread title, but I've always enjoyed his music and have real good memories of Ragweed playing in Ames when I was in college.
  23. This sounds sarcastic. But it shouldn't be. Dude wrote some great songs in his day.
  24. At this rate we’ll be done. My wife and a few of our friends have tickets. If we get done by then I’m going
  25. Well if your point is that Penn State doesn’t belong with OSU, Michigan, and USC then just say so. I agree. I wasn’t putting them on that level. I was saying they’re at a level I can’t see Nebraska reaching.
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