Go Cyclone Radio

I remember in the 1980s listening to Cyclone basketball on the radio. I already pay ESPN enough. Hello John Walters. Sorry I am older than most. I had an antenna in the attic mounted on a pipe, inside a larger pipe, so I could reach my hand in an access to rotate the antenna toward Sioux city for High School State basketball games, Omaha for regular TV and towards Ames for WOI and Iowa State Basketball. I am looking forward to the throwback. The WOI games were fuzzy but very watchable. Better than the American Sportsman on ABC.

For the first time in 15 years...

For the first time in my roughly 15 years of Cyclone fandom, I turned to a different channel tonight. As a teen who was obsessed with ISU sports I would still love to come home and love watch Craig Brackins and crew lose on a Wednesday night. I suffered through the Chizik and McDermott eras, watched us lose 77-7 to Baylor in football and get smacked countless other time. I still watched every second I could because I loved it. I’m the guy who stays until the last second because I want to see what the reserves look like and what the future holds.

Maybe it’s just me getting older, but this isn’t even fun to watch.

Drone Swarms Over Colorado and Nebraska

Mysterious drones have been flying over Colorado and Nebraska in recent weeks and authorities can't figure out who's behind the aircraft.

Deputies have spotted more than 16 unmanned drones flying in northeast Colorado after authorities received multiple reports of drone sightings last month, the sheriff's offices in Colorado's Yuma and Phillips counties said.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/us/colorado-nebraska-drones-faa-trnd/index.html

Mapping terrain? Military exercise? Searching for lost warhead?

How did Baylor football do what ISU couldn't?

Baylor's record last 3 seasons:
2017: 1-11
2018: 7-6
2019: 11-3 or 12-2

Iowa State's record last 3 seasons:
2017: 8-5
2018: 8-5
2019: 7-6

What was it that allowed Baylor to take the steps that ISU couldn't, but was expected to by many pundits before the year started? One aspect that makes me salty about this is, Baylor copied Heacock's defense, but did it better.

Just curious about others thoughts on the subject. It might of been discussed in other threads.

Was it?
Better players
Execution
Coaching
Schedule
Etcetera

Backing Up the Trucks

I offer today option #2:
We reallocate that $10 for the pedestrian bridge, donate that to Oregon for the express purpose of buying out Altman, who then buys out McDermott's deal at Creighton, and brings the big dude back to Ames.

As fans, we struggle with the idea of coaches we haven't seen before, so this is a creative way to bring back that familiarity we crave.

  • Poll Poll
What are the Expectations for Men’s Basketball at Iowa State?

What are your expectations for ISU basketball over an average 10 year period?

  • Average Big 12 finish of 2, NCAA 10/10 years, 5 Big 12 Championships, 5 Second weekend tournaments,

    Votes: 2 1.0%
  • Average Big 12 finish of 3, NCAA 9/10 years, 2 Big 12 Championships, 3 Second weekend tournaments

    Votes: 28 14.7%
  • Average Big 12 finish of 4, NCAA 8/10 years, 1 Big 12 Championships, 2 Second weekend tournaments

    Votes: 117 61.3%
  • Average Big 12 finish of 5, NCAA 7/10 years, .5 Big 12 Championships, 1 Second weekend tournaments

    Votes: 34 17.8%
  • Average Big 12 finish of 6, NCAA 5/10 years, 0 Big 12 Championships, 1 Second Weekend tournaments

    Votes: 5 2.6%
  • Average Big 12 finish of 7, NCAA 3/10 years, 0 Big 12 Championships, 0 Second weekend tournaments

    Votes: 2 1.0%
  • Average Big 12 finish of 8, NCAA 2/10 years, 0 Big 12 Championships, 0 Second weekend tournaments

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Average Big 12 finish of 9, NCAA 1/10 years, 0 Big 12 Championships, 0 Second weekend tournaments

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Average Big 12 finish of 10, NCAA 0/10 years, 0 Big 12 Championships, 0 Second weekend tournaments

    Votes: 2 1.0%

I wanted to create this thread as I think it is desperately needed right now. Part of the problem right now I think is just in what the expectations are.

I’m going to try and cover the potential answers as best I can. Try and pick your best answer with the ones provided.

if there is something dramatically wrong with one of the options let me know and I can try and better reflect it in the options.

Prohm is 9-16 at ISU

In games decided by 3 points or less. These last pair of heartbreakers made me curious as to how good we've been in the Prohm era in one possession games. I tried to count OT as less than 3 but may have missed one or two. Just to deepen the look I also checked games decided by 6 points or less:
2019-20: 3: 0-2 6: 0-3
2018-19: 3: 1-4 6: 5-7
2017-18: 3: 1-2 6: 3-6
2016-17: 3: 5-4 6: 8-7
2015-16: 3: 2-4 6: 4-7
Total: 3: 9-16 (36%) 6: 20-30 (40%)

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