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Al_4_ISU

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  1. Buncha kids here. Jesus. I just realized this album is 20 years old and a child born when I discovered the band could drive.
  2. This has been going on ever since they created divisions. Iowa/Ohio State gets played like every 4 or 5 years.
  3. Seems fair to me. I'm not upset by the Big 10's media deal. They have the eyeballs on their product. It's just capitalism. I just get annoyed when people conflate their financial success with the quality of football.
  4. Our total ineptitude mostly came during an era where we weren't very institutionally committed to football. Since we really bought in as a fanbase/university, we've been at least competitive most of the time, with the end of the Rhoads era being an exception. Even those teams gave a lot of better squads really tight games (see UT/ISU 2014 in Austin). I don't think we'll ever be dominant at any level, but I don't think we'll be a guaranteed W either. At least not with the current athletic department administration.
  5. I’m not sure if you’re being facetious, but the Big 10’s TV deal has very little to do with the quality of football. It has a great TV deal because it contains large schools in high population states that love football. The Big 12 and ACC play similar quality football but have smaller fanbases, and in the Big 12’s case, smaller states where they have 2nd most popular school. So they get paid a lot less. People don’t tune into college sports to watch the highest level of the game. They tune in because they are emotionally invested in the institution.
  6. I'm very aware of our history. Trust me, I had season tickets through 3 separate 2 win seasons and a bunch of 3 win seasons. I'm just saying there's no guaranteed lay up in the current Big 12. Obviously it doesn't have the top end of the Big 10, but I'd bet every single Big 12 team (and all 4 coming in next year) would be favored over Northwestern, Indiana, and Rutgers on a neutral field today. And the historical record that far back is kind of useless. Like you pointed out, KSU is #111. No one on this site (save Armybrat) can remember KSU being anything other than an extremely competitive program (now, excuse while I go vomit for complimenting those fucksticks).
  7. Free win doesn’t mean you were an unforced error away from losing at home to a team. Free win is Kansas prior to last year.
  8. We’re going to have a real salty defense, and if our offense even approaches average, we’ll win a little. Remember, we were a dropped routine fly ball from winning in Austin last year. We were two missed field goals from a bowl game, and a very different narrative about the program. We might not be great, but we’re a tough out even with the gambling losses.
  9. 4. Been known in ISU circles since early June. Our QB was physically talented but utterly brain dead. It didn’t change my outlook at all. 6 of our 8 losses were by less than a TD, and most fell on missed FGs or bad turnovers from the QB
  10. Who are the free wins in the Big 12? The worst Big 12 team is better than 3-4 Big 10 teams as long as KU and Zona stay competitive.
  11. That’s what they do in the current arrangement (7-9 is their average)) They all assume their SOS is going up in the future. And if they win 9 games in the new Big 12, they probably aren’t in the CCG, which they’ve made twice.
  12. Exactly. What do those paychecks and conference affiliations do for fans? Even those second tier Big 10 and SEC schools are going to have to adjust their fan expectations. I know a lot of Iowa fans that are not happy about the Big 10 West going away. They always had a chance to play for a conference title in that set up, and after this year, unless some lopsided divisions return to the league (or they keep getting schedules that dodge all the good teams in the league), they will probably never play for another conference title.
  13. You raise some good points, and I’m probably applying small sample sizes of both guys to this, but I swear every time Sanders played ISU he had some “how the fuck did he do that?” throw. Almost always on 3rd and long. Because our payback for 2011 has been your ability to convert 3rd and literally anything when we play.
  14. Why should the rest of the country give even half a fuck about the Stanford brand when their own fans and alumni don't?
  15. Coming from the other side of the fence, having watched both play against my team a shit load of times, I couldn't disagree more. We made Bowman look like a chump on a regular basis, and Sanders was always a massive thorn in our side, even the time he beat us. I don't know where to slot this year's Poke squad, but hearing Allan Bowman was the starter made me feel better as an opposing fan. It could be anecdotal to how they each played against ISU too.
  16. I'd have to imagine in a "death of the ACC" situation, you'd be pretty excited to add the 4 that aren't as appealing to the SEC and Big 10.
  17. The problem for the ACC is that their floor is lower (and much more numerous) than the Big 12 and their ceiling is publicly screaming to leave. If their top brands were content to hold down the fort, you'd absolutely have a P4 and a healthy debate about who was the better of the 2 second tier leagues.
  18. At least it's fucking beautiful at this exact moment. I still don't buy that Saturday's gonna be as hot as predicted. Plan on taking my infant daughter to a parade, but we'll see how that goes.
  19. Current temperature: 47 Wednesday’s forecasted high: 101 Iowa’s fun
  20. I don’t oppose them for political reasons, I oppose them because they don’t care about sports. ASU fans seem pretty happy with the move, and even Utah fans have quickly changed their tune. Cal and Stanford would have all of administrative snobbery of ASU/Utah, with absolutely nothing to bring to revenue sports.
  21. Weezer had two great albums, one decent album, and have been shoveling shit at the world for over 20 years at this point. It's amazing how my view of Pinkerton's greatness changed the minute I got laid for the first time (it's still pretty great, but it's definitely got heavy incel vibes).
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