Back From Brief Hiatus
by Mark Kieffer on Jul 19, 2010 5:11 PM CDT
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What's up everyone? Many apologizes for having gone dark for about a week. Definitley was not planned, but I did some packing, and moving, and basically it took more time and energy than I had anticipated.
Regardless, I've got a few things to talk about!
45 Days until Kickoff! Can you believe it?! It's still hard to imagine, but it's happening for sure. I've got a lot to talk about to preview, not only ISU's season, but also the Big 12 too. On a personal level, I'm big into predictions, projections, and all of that, so I can't wait to dig in and talk about it. I've done the necessary research and we'll get it going soon.
I can't believe the Royce White haters. I don't care what the rankings say, I really believe that talent-wise, that this guy has the upside to be one of the best we've seen at ISU. He's aggressive, and more physical than some of the fineese guys we've seen in the past. There just aren't a slew of Elite Character AND Elite Talent types of guys. Heck, I think we were pretty fortunate to land one in Brackins. Especially when you consider that we couldn't land one that was the hometown guy!
In order to get high level talent at Iowa State, you may have to pick up a guy with a less than perfect background. In reality most of us are like that. Something to remember is that this guy was 18 and made some mistakes. I'm all for letting the guy prove that he's learned from those mistakes. I am guessing that there's a high correlation between the group of people that thought Greg McDermott was awesome AND these Royce White haters.
Coaches are making 6 and 7 figures, with the expectations to win. And when you're expected to win, you sometimes have to take some risks with bringing in players. I can't think of a worst-case scenario that has a long term effect on ISU, but I can think of a best-case scenario that has a longer term effect on ISU.
I still haven't played NCAA Football 2011. I've heard it's awesome and I'm jealous. I've secured an Xbox 360 from a friend. Now I've got to get a hold of the game. If you've played it, I honestly want to know how it is, and if it's much different from past years.
Lastly, I've gotta give props to this thread. It has given me some of the funniest reading I've done at least a month or so. I especially love the MNC prediction for 2015: http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum/football/96346-how-long-before-we-can-expect-competitive-win-game-vs-ut-ou.html
If I was running Cyclonefanatic, I'd ban some of these guys without hesitation (unless they were under the age of 15 or so). I firmly believe that somebody can be too stupid to be involved in a community, and removing said people improves your community.
On the flip side, as not being involved over there, I enjoy these kinds of posts, and am looking forward to another football season if for nothing else, reading a slew of threads similar to these!
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I figured the reason for the hiatus
was because you had picked up NCAA 2011.
I have the same fashion sense as Tom Arnold.
I wish
Had to take care of biz on a personal side. I’ll be rocking NCAA 2011 all weekend though!
by Mark Kieffer on Jul 20, 2010 8:00 AM CDT up reply actions
Needless to say..
as the author of “The Behavior Factor” fan post, I whole-heartily approve of this type of player for ISU. He exemplifies what ISU must do to move up. Hopefully, the Mayor knows how to guide and direct kids with behavior problems!
Welcome back
Moving always turns out to be more work than what we expect.
45 Days: Looking forward to the season and am glad all ISU’s early games will be on TV. I expect Fox or ESPN to pick up most of the conference games. Here’s to hoping Iowa State can prove the naysayers wrong, and, for the Big 12, it could be hilarious to see the reception CU and Nebraska get when they go on the road.
Royce White: Plenty of other young people have messed up and then got straightened out. I read about a player at Illinois – Trulon Henry – who actually did prison time, but since he got out he has been a model citizen. He played juco ball and ended up on the Zooker’s team.
Threads on message boards: I can’t believe some of the idiotic trashing that goes on some other places. I post on the Des Moines Register once in awhile, and I think there are some Hawk fans who sit at their computers all day and look for articles where they can slam ISU. I mean, seriously, that’s all they do. Don’t these people have jobs?? Or a life?? And obviously, a bunch of these people never went to school there because they can’t spell. I love seeing the ‘Clones beat the Hawks, but I have friends and relatives that went to Iowa, so hey, good for them when Iowa does well. It doesn’t take any class or character to be a slob fan.
Since I don't want to read the whole thread......
Can you provide some examples of stupidity from it? I don’t believe in banning people for what they say unless specifically against the policies. It is a forum and that’s what its meant for.
I was half joking
About banning. But the thread basically was a poll asking when they expect ISU to be competitive year in and year out with Texas and OU. Not a fluke win, but actually being on par with them? Within that thread there was a serious post, that stated he believes that ISU will win a BCS Championship in 2015.
It’s amazing the optomism ISU fans have after winning a low tier bowl game. I believe things will get better too, but come on. I’ll go for hoping to see us in Holiday and Alamo Bowls.
Heck, I’d be ecstatic of we could just have a winning record in conference play!
by Mark Kieffer on Jul 20, 2010 3:05 PM CDT up reply actions
I saw that 2015 guy. What’s wrong with a little optimism? At least people are interested enough to chat about/believe in stuff like that.
That's not a little optomism
That’s a ton of optomism.
Do you know how many times we’ve won 9 games in the regular season? 0
I just don’t see anything that Iowa State is going to do to ever reverse the trend. We have some of the lowest revenue in the conference, therefore one of the lowest budgets in the conference. We’re the second most popular team in a state where you have less than 10 division 1 recruits per year.
But anyhow, my second point, is let’s pretend that things became magical, and we were able to win double digit games. Even then national championship aspirations are HILARIOUS! Cincy and TCU lost 1 game last year, and didn’t make it. Boise State went undefeated and didn’t even get close.
In 2008, Texas, Alabama, and USC lost 1 game and didn’t make it. Utah and Boise went undefated too and didn’t come close. Boise State has gone 49-4 over the past 4 seasons and never was in the mix, and they are a better program than ours.
On top of that, the 2015 would consist of going undefeated in the conference, including beating Texas and Oklahoma, on top of hoping that there aren’t two other teams going undefeated.
It’s complete stupidity.
A little optomism would be having a winning conference record, or getting to a bowl game better than the Insight bowl.
This is why ISU fans get clowned with things go wrong. Because they go 6-6 with a weak schedule, win a bowl game against a weak team, and everyone thinks the possibilites are endless. College Football doesn’t work ilke that.
by Mark Kieffer on Jul 21, 2010 8:13 AM CDT up reply actions
You both make some good points
It’s always fun to dream, but people need to recognize a dream for what it is. The fact is that certain schools (Florida, Ohio St., Texas, etc) will always have an advantage because of 1) their name and tradition 2) money and 3) in-state recruiting. It’s tough to overcome that, as Mark pointed out. That’s why Cyclone fans (and Kansas, Indiana, Minnesota, Washington St., etc) need to have a realistic optimism. It bothered me when people started to complain about Dan McCarney. It’s almost like they forgot how bad things were under Duncan, Criner and Walden. We all wanted to see ISU in the Big 12 Championship game, but it wasn’t Mac’s fault the kicker missed a chip shot field goal against Mizzou in 2004. And it sure wasn’t his fault the replay official gave KU a touchdown in ’05 (a terrible call IMO) after the refs on the field said it was short of the goal line. However, we have reason to be optimistic with the foundation that Mac laid and with Coach Rhoads. And Bill Snyder (K-St.) proved that any team can be successful. KSU was, by far, the worst team in D-I when he took over. But remember it took him ten years to win the Big 12 North. Dream big, but be patient and realistic.
by MichiganClone on Jul 21, 2010 10:59 AM CDT up reply actions
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