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Iowa State is hosting three transfer portal targets on visits this weekend:

Anyone tried it yet? Haven’t had time myself, but it’s really exploded in the past week.



Seeing the predictions of English classes being doomed to advanced jobs being replaced.

IOWA STATE PREVIEW

What: UNI Open
Where: UNI-Dome – Cedar Falls, Iowa
When: Saturday, Dec. 10 – 9 a.m.
Watch: FloWrestling
Live Stats: TrackWrestling

Iowa State Entries:
125: Caleb Fuessley*
133: Evan Frost
141: Jacob Frost, Carter Fousek, Damon Huston*, Drew Woodley*
157: Andrew Huddleston*, Isaac Judge*, Jason Kraisser*, Ben Monroe*, Cam Robinson*
165: Cade Schmidt*, Carter Schmidt*
174: Joel Devine*, Manny Rojas
184: Nando Villaescusa
197: Rowan Udell
*Competing unattached

Missouri and UNI each show 20+ entries at the moment, with a handful each from Iowa and SDSU.

What are the most thoughtful gifts you have given (for the holidays or otherwise)? How did they go?

I like handmade stuff that took a lot of thought. A HS friend made his poetry (masculine stuff) into books for me for my birthday when I turned 16, and I always loved that, so I have tried to do the same at times.

A few years ago, My dad and his brother sold their family farm (not quite a century farm, but close). I know it tore my dad up, so for that Christmas, I found a website that shows embroidered photos of Iowa farms over the decades, so I took one from the year he married my mom, traced it onto cloth, and then embroidered it to exactly represent their lands and buildings. (It was my first foray back into sewing after decades, so it was not by any means perfect.). He isn’t a sentimental guy, so his reaction wasn’t quite what I was expecting, but I hope it brings him joy.

This past fall, my best friend and I went to Omaha for a girls’ trip. We had a ton of fun doing things, but one of the best and most special parts was just finding a Roku channel that played nothing but old 90s episodes of Supermarket Sweep, and sitting on the couch watching it while coloring in adult coloring books while chatting. I tried looking for a Supermarket Sweep coloring book but couldn’t find any, so I downloaded screen grabs from the series (and took a few of my own of particular things), loaded them into Procreate, traced them to get the coloring book pages, put them into coloring book pages in Microsoft Illustrator, printed that to PDF, and then got Alpha Copies here in town to make them into coloring books. They did a great job, so I hope she likes it.

What are yours? I love hearing about special gifts and reactions.

Tell us about the best pet you have ever had.

This team could really use a McGee type 3 point shooter to help spark the offense. There are 2 guys at Indian Hills that look like higher end shooters than anything we have on the roster right now.

Prior to last nights game I listed what I felt were the “must do's” for a win to happen:

The must do's...
1. Play good defense and limit fouls
2. Rebound and don't give second chances
3. Hit your open shots.
4. Make your free throws.

well…IMO the only one they remotely did was #2. Complete overwhelming failure on #’s 3 and 4. #1 was rather suspect…especially in the second half.

Idk if that’s good or bad, hu ******-a he’s worked hard and become a pain in the ass for opponents. I wish the others could get theirs heads straight like big Rob energy.

When is he going to be eligible? So we know the exact game?

Assuming we win our next three cupcake games we will need to pull off 10 conference wins or 9 conference games and beat Missouri late in season to get to 20 regular season wins. Can this team achieve that?

BTW, depending on quality wins rest of the way I think this team could get in the tournament with 18 or 19 wins.

I grabbed Iowa State at +4.5. Public and sharp money really coming in on ISU currently. Some money coming in on the over to, which I took at o138. Not sure I really feel about it though. If Murray doesn't play, I don't know how this is a high scoring affair. I figure Iowa State will top out similar to where they did last year, at 75. Iowa will need at least 64. I could kind of see it playing out like that.

Tournament is this weekend

Dresser will be out there (Ohio) watching some recruits.


3 top kids of interest are

120 lbs - 8 Top 20s​

1 - #1 Jax Forrest, Bishop McCort

2 - #2 Luke Lilledahl, Wyoming Seminary (PA)

3 - #8 Marcus Blaze, Perrysburg

4 - #3 Jordyn Raney, Union County

5 - #12 Kael Lauridsen, Bennington

6 - #13 Leo DeLuca, Blair Academy

7 - HM Ethan Rivera, Lake Highland Prep

8 - #20 Sebastian Degennaro, Jensen Beach

126 lbs - 9 Top 20s​

1 - #2 Benjamin Davino, St. Charles East

2 - #4 Marc-Anthony McGowan, Blair Academy

3 - #3 Mason Gibson, Bishop McCort

4 - #9 Max Gallagher, Bayport Blue Point

5 - #17 Dillon Campbell, Legacy Christian Academy

6 - #11 Jacob Joyce, Ponaganset

7 - #16 JJ McComas, Stillwater

8 - HM Logan Frazier, Crown Point

165 lbs - 4 Top 20s​

1 - #1 Angelo Ferrari, Melissa

2 - #3 Lorenzo Norman, Blair Academy

3 - #4 Daschle Lamer, Crescent Valley

4 - #9 Sam Goin, Crown Point

In no particular order:


Of course, every single win over the Hawkeyes is amazing but these games always stuck with me.

Memorable mentions from each game:

1.December 10, 1985: Johnny's best team ever absolutely dominates the Hawkeyes in Hilton. This Hawkeye team includes several future NBA stars and even makes a run to the Elite 8 the following year.

2. December 19, 1987: The Lafester Rhodes 54-point game won in OT. Rhodes simply could not miss that night. Famous Johnny quote about Rhodes during the game, "Don't take him out of the game. Keep him in there until he dies!"

3. December 14, 1991: Thigpen, Hoiberg and company crush the Hawkeyes in Hilton. Great Hoiberg dunk on Acie Earle.

4 December 12, 2014: It's Iowa's year finally they will win but instead they are run out of their own gym and Naz gives a great pose next to Mad Fran after burying a three.

Looking for the IT network pros who might have a recommendation for the small business I work for. Due to some regulations that will impact them soon, a VPN will be required. Does anyone have any business VPN recommendations? The business will require support and specific configurations. All employees work from home in the US and there are no physical offices. Any experiences positive or negative would be appreciated.

Epic match going to 5th

With improved special teams in 2022 we would have won at least 6 games and been bowling for the 6th year in a row, but that's not what happened and special teams was a disaster for the ISU football team, once again. So, for the hell of it, lets pretend Campbell hires a special teams coordinator this off-season - which I think is a very likely scenario. We have 3 open coaching positions; Strength coach, OL coach and essentially a third opening we can be open to something new with. The strength coach is what it is, the OL coach is what it is - and usually OL coaches aren't also a special teams coordinator, so that leaves us with our third open coaching position. Right now Scheelhouse is the OC/WR/RB coach, so ideally we would hire a special teams coordinator that would also coach WR's or RB's and take one of those positions away from Scheelhouse.

I don't know who all Campbell is connected to so I'm going to toss out some names that I could potentially see being options for us.

1. IMO, my #1 guy would be Brian Haines from App State. He's from WV but had spent a good majority of his career in Ohio so he could be connected to Campbell somehow. He's currently the special teams coordinator and RB's coach at App State.

Named a 2021 candidate for the Broyles Award that goes to the nation’s top assistant, Haines coached a running back group that helped App State extend its FBS-leading streak of consecutive years with a 1,000-yard rusher to 10 and directed a special teams group that included kicker Chandler Staton, who received first-team All-America recognition, and Jalen Virgil, who had two kickoff returns for touchdowns.

App State ranked 16th nationally in overall special teams based on the Fremeau Efficiency Index (FEI) that combines kickoff return, kickoff, punt return, punt and field goal efficiency into one overall rating.

App State’s two leading backs (Nate Noel, Camerun Peoples) both rushed for more than 900 yards while ranking No. 2 and No. 3 in rushing yards per game in the Sun Belt, and that came a year after the Mountaineers were the only FBS team in the country to have four running backs rush for at least 500 yards.


2. Adam Scheier brings 26 years of collegiate coaching experience into 2022, including the last 22 working with special teams. Prior to coming to Temple, Scheier spent two seasons as Rutgers' special teams coordinator. The Scarlet Knights ranked 7th in the ESPN Special Teams Efficiency Ratings in 2020 and improved to No. 4 in 2021.

This guy has been a stud everywhere he's been and has coached WR's and RB's before but it's been a little while. He most recently has been a ST Coordinator while working with the TE's at Temple.

3. Erik Link - he's a Drake graduate and has been on the ISU staff before. He's currently the Special Teams coordinator and TE's coach at Mizzou and has coached Andrew Mevis's brother (who is an All American Kicker) the last few years. He was also previously at App State where their special teams units were very impressive.

Under Link's guidance, Appalachian State ranked in the nation's top 30 in numerous special teams categories, including a national-best seven blocked kicks (five kicks/two punts), without allowing a single blocked kick or punt. The 2019 Mountaineers also ranked in the following special teams categories: punt return coverage (15th NCAA/1st Sun Belt – 3.65 avg.), kickoff returns (16th NCAA/1st Sun Belt – 24.4 avg.) and kickoff return coverage (28th NCAA/3rd Sun Belt – 18.91 avg.).

It would be in ISU and Campbell's best interest to fill the third coaching position with someone who could not only take a position group away from our first year OC, but also someone who could double as a special teams coordinator because the coaching-special-teams-by-committee approach he's tried, isn't working. Also, not shockingly, the teams with the top 9 special teams units in 2022 all have special teams coordinators. Make the right move, Matt!

To spice things up in our otherwise boring team meetings at work, we have made up deathmatches. These have always been between random animals but I'm spicing things up and throwing in Dwight Shrute. I think a human man fighting a bobcat to the death would be a pretty even match. for this scenario they will be in a 30' cube with all surfaces padded.

If you don't think a bobcat is a fair fight for Dwight, what animal would you recommend?

Edit: I just looked up the record for largest bobcat. 51lbs. Let's assume that the bobcat in question weighs 51lbs.

Match-ups if things go chalk (we know there will be fill-ins to keep guys fresh). I am assuming we will see either Penn St or UNC on day 2.

Rankings: Intermat/FLO/WIN

125: ISU (NR/NR/NR), Oregon St (12/12/10), Cornell (22/20/NR), Penn St (NR/NR/NR), N. Carolina (NR/NR/NR)

133: ISU (21/19/14), Oregon St (16/16/9), Cornell (3/3/3), Penn St (1/1/1), N. Carolina (29/HM/NR)

141: ISU (12/9/6), Oregon St (24/18/NR), Cornell (22/16/20), Penn St (9/4/11), N. Carolina (26/HM/NR)

149: ISU (5/5/8), Oregon St (NR/NR/NR), Cornell (1/1/1), Penn St (17/13/16), N. Carolina (14/13/19)

157: ISU (NR/NR/NR), Oregon St (NR/NR/NR), Cornell (NR/NR/NR), Penn St (NR/HM/NR), N. Carolina (6/7/3)

165: ISU (3/3/3), Oregon St (23/13/12), Cornell (7/8/8), Penn St (15/HM/NR), N. Carolina (NR/NR/NR)

174: ISU (NR/NR/NR), Oregon St (28/HM/NR), Cornell (6/6/8) Penn St (1/1/1), N. Carolina (8/8/5)

184: ISU (4/5/4), Oregon St (13/7/15), Cornell (6/8/7), Penn St (1/1/1), N. Carolina (17/13/16)

197: ISU (2/2/3), Oregon St (11/13/11), Cornell (25/HM/NR), Penn St (5/6/5), N. Carolina (32/HM/NR)

285: ISU (10/9/9), Oregon St (NR/NR/NR), Cornell (15/15/12), Penn St (1/1/1), N. Carolina (NR/NR/NR)

The 133, 174 and 184 slots look real tough for our guys. Really hoping to see Paniro vs Yanni at 149. A couple of tough matches for Casey & David. Looks like a chance for 125 and 157 to get some wins.

Thoughts?

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Iowa (6-2, 0-0 Big 10)
#20 IOWA STATE (7-1, 0-0 BIG 12)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8TH 7:00 P.M. CST
Carver-Hawkeye Arena / Iowa City, Iowa


TV: FS1
Talent: Kevin Kugler, pxp Nick Bahe, analyst

Radio: Cyclone Radio Network (Varsity Network)
CRN Talent: John Walters (pxp); Eric Heft (analyst)