First QB to lead ISU to a bowl game passed away August 5.

This is all over You Tube. ESPN has withdrawn its bidding for B1G TV deal. FOX, CBS, NBC to carry its FB games, IIRC, starting 2024. This has to be a positive for the BIG12. It also, IMO, boosted the value of PAC12 TV rights. ESPN has more money to spend, and it wants "PAC12-After-Dark" time slot. What this means for the BIG12 remains to be seen. I believe the BIG12 will also get a boost to TV revenue. What that'll look like is anyone's guess. Overall I think it's a positive for the BIG12.

Caught the last few innings of the Minor League game on MLB Network tonight. High A ball, Davenport vs Cedar Rapids. Everything about watching these games bring a sense of pride and renewed love for the game. The players, umps, commentators and fans are in awe of the atmosphere and nostalgia. Beautiful evening, beautiful ballpark and a great thing for the state of Iowa!

Welcome to another edition of “On That Note,” CF’s weekly music series, co-hosted by @MeanDean, @cyclones500 and myself.

I've had a little extra time to think about my topic for this week, and this one was right there all along as the thought came to me about having the topic being the words think and thought.

It includes all variations of those words and topic includes title and lyric examples.

Last Week: On That Note: A Fifth of OTN

I was hired by a large employer here in Des Moines a few months ago and I was looking through some of their benefits outside the typical medical/401k match/etc and I stumbled up something that perked my interest.

They will match up to $10,000 in charitable donations to any nonprofit organization of your choosing. They will also turn any recorded volunteer hours into cash donations. They organization just has to be located in Iowa and be tax exempt under 501(c)(3).

As far as I know, the We Will Collective should fit that bill. I wonder how many other large employers in Iowa have something similar to this? Might as well leverage everything we can.
@brentblum

Fox Sports is holding a March-Madness type Best Fanbase in College Football fan vote on twitter. Iowa State is a 10 seed (little do they know...).

Time to show them what happens when there is a twitter vote involving CycloneNation.

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Some interesting projections for March Madness this year. Biggest one that sticks out to me is TCU at a No. 4 seed.

Looking forward to the new RV Village. Mainly because of no more noisy generators and no diesel fumes (from my RV). Also, not as much 'tailgate creep' with the assigned spots and a more defined area. I did chuckle at some of the restrictions (no glass bottles, no liquor. and no standalone speakers). I did upgrade my amplification this year, but if you knew what I had before it was laughable, but it worked.

I understood the 'no DJ Booth' or PA setups. Not everyone wants to listen to your music as much as you do... (especially when you are drunk singing the first 30 seconds of each song at midnight, that was annoying)

There will be some adjustments from D4 to here, but I like it.

I got spot 429 and I am next to a college roommate, so that will be fun. Will be there 9/2. My dogs are itching to get back in the rig.

Great show. A lot about ILM that I did not know, especially the people who worked there. I have watched a half dozen documentaries about Pixar, never saw a story before about how it was developed at ILM. All the Pixar docs started with Steven Jobs purchasing it from George Lucas. An amazing show and well worth seeing.

I know I'm 3 weeks early but pumped to get this contest up and going and since you have to be in at the start no one can say I didn't have time to get in on this. Again starting Week 1 with games associated as Week 0 on the 27th. I will get the Week 2 thread up the next day for the games for the 1st through the 6th.

New this year are tiebreaker points. If your team wins and covers you gain an extra bonus point. If you take a undefeated team who is the underdog you gain the point for them covering plus another bonus point. As the season goes on the number of teams undefeated being a underdog greatly diminish so take advantage while you can.


I will be using ESPN's Lines

Rules/How to Play if you are new:

1. Pick a team you think will win that weeks game. Pick only 1 team per week.
2. Don't pm me the pick, post on here your pick.
3. You can only pick that team ONCE the entire time you are in the game.
4. The goal is to advance and be the last person standing.
5. Only games that have a FBS school facing another FBS school are eligible to be picked.
6. You have up until the start time of the game you picked to switch.
7. If your team loses, you are out for the competition.
8. If you skip a week of picks, you are out.
9. You can switch as many times up until the game you have picked officially starts.
10. If you have questions, pm me
11. Post 2 of the thread will have the possible games you can pick.
12. Post 3 will have each player and their previous week's picks.
13. You can only pick teams that are undefeated (they will be bolded).
14. You can't join in during the middle of the season.
    Please include prior weeks picks with your pick for the week.

Have any questions, pm me or ask in the thread. Thanks!

With this being the week that the single-game tickets go on pre-sale, will I be able to get hillside tickets when that opens up? Or is the only way to get hillside tickets through the jr cyclone club? I'm new to this, as this will be the first time I take my 6y/o.

Thanks in advance

I just heard Coach Scheelhaase say things about Greg Gaines that the coaches never, ever said about Joe Scates.

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Anybody watch? Seems consensus to be best predator since original…or only good one since original.

Want to watch but loath subscribing/unsubscribing from Hulu. So weird they didn’t release in theater.

Dom Orange DOWN from “about” 380 to 350!

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I was thinking about Professor Mack today and how much I loved her JLMC law class. I have two stories to share:

Since I can't hear, I had a very prim interpreter in that class. Very genteel. Refined. Barbara was so caring and understanding, but she was still Barbara. Early in the semester during class she asked the interpreter to teach her all the colorful curse words in sign language and turned to the class and made sure we all understood how to sign them. She kept using them all semester.

My interpreter, well, I've never seen another human being turn so red in my life. Still haven't.

Also, Barbara kept warning us class after class that we would fail her class (no idle threat) if we didn't spend many months researching and writing our massive law paper final. A challenge! Decided not to do anything until a few days before it was due. (Yes, I was dumb.) After getting a very good grade, I told her what I had done. Rather than being insulted like some teachers would've been, she thought it was the funniest thing ever. Laughed and laughed. I still have that paper.

RIP

I was literally just thinking how this competition mirrored 2019.

The number of times I see kids try and give themselves an enema with these things.

@ChrisMWilliams how bad do you think the Adventureland splash pad is?!?

Great stuff from CW this morning.

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As a high school official of more than 25 seasons I see both sides of this. In essence, you are working/calling the same game (especially at high school level) BUT, the men's (boy's in HS) game IS faster, with more action. The players are quicker, jump higher, etc. which means you have more to watch for. It is just a more difficult game to work. And that is a generalization, I have work girl's teams that are just as quick, physical, etc. as boy's teams, but IN GENERAL, the girl's game is a half step slower than the boy's game.

With that said, I think they should be paid the same (as we are in high school) as the skill of the official needs to be at the same level or the game will suffer. If the pay is the same, maybe some of the better college officials will work more WBB games, although I think they have some good size egos and thus probably will stay with MBB for the exposure/fame those convey.