Monday Musings on Tuesday

- Tyrese Haliburton has the Pacers up 2-1 in the conference final
- Dominykas Pleta gets another year
- SEC meets and Sankey throws a shot
- Alex Palou, Sports on Prime & more here

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2025/05/...-1-pleta-given-4-years-palou-pounces-on-indy/

I've been to Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, and Scotland, but not to Iceland. What's needed for the latter in terms of adapters and voltage converters?

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Chris Williams and Brent Blum react to Greg Sankey’s comments about the future of college football before diving into the latest in Big 12 transfer portal news and a few mailbag questions. Presented by Mechdyne.

SI had a great article w/ Jaylin today. https://www.si.com/nfl/jaylin-noel-texans-rookie-iowa-state-purdy

A long but informative read:

(I kinda wonder who the anonymous B12 AD is)

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-fo...he-sec-its-going-to-get-heated-130018106.html

This thread is a thoughtful read, but it presents a much better understanding of Memorial Day than the all-caps "Happy Memorial Day" tweet posted earlier.

Bracket just released:

Going there soon. Looking for recommendations. Open to just about anything

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I'll watch seems like I usually do.
Penske got busted with some modified safety parts that don't effect performance but got sent to the back row.

Rookie on the pole.

Kyle Larson is trying to run the Indy NASCAR double header.

I just finished watching The Six Triple Eight on Netflix. For the most part, I thought it was a rip off of Tuskegee Airmen only with women and not nearly as compelling a plot. I mean, come on. Mail sorting during World War II? And let's face it, it's not like they had any great impact on the war. I mean, after all, they didn't start sorting the mail until February of 1945. That's after the Battle of Bulge, when the war was all over except for the shouting (and some shooting), but Germany had already shot its last shot at turning the tide of war and it was all downhill from there. So they had less than a month or so (after they figured out what they were doing in the first three months) to actually deliver the mail while there were still bullets flying. Minimal impact.

But for some reason, I can't stop thinking about this very mediocre movie. I watched it last night and laid in bed thinking about it after that, and it's the first thing I thought of this morning and I've been thinking about it all day. Frankly, I'm shocked I didn't forget it as soon as I finished watching it.

Are there movies like that for anyone else? Movies that were bad, but you can't stop thinking about them and the thoughts are not necessarily how bad the movie was?

They are all wrong though because my dogs are the cutest. They are also the smartest, most loving and most awesome too!

We've got a large crew here this weekend. Started it off grilling burgers and brats last night. Going to smoke some ribs today with potato casserole, baked beans and slaw. Tomorrow with the weather being crappy going to do pasta, italian sausage cavatelli, and chicken alfredo with garlic bread. Everyone will leave mid-day Monday, so it may be leftovers if we have them, otherwise I'll grill some steaks and baked potatoes.
What's your plan for the weekend?

If Hali can get the Cers to the NBA Finals, a Cyclone will have LED his team to both a Super Bowl and an NBA title game over the span of three years.

Seriously. Read that again.

Y'all, we are in our golden years.

So why bring this up? Seems like a pretty obvious piece of trivia...

Because, new fans, there was a time when recruits LITERALLY didn't know who we were. I remember reading the athletic department rebrand document that led to our current I STATE logo (reserve that discussion for another thread) and the primary motivation for the change was that recruits DID NOT KNOW WHO WE WERE.

If you're a doomsayer in these forums, I have one, genuine piece of advice: stop and enjoy the ride. When I was a kid, we were nothing. We weren't even a joke because that would mean that people had even freaking heard of us at all.

Do yourself a favor and enjoy the ride. Good programs dream of runs like this, and we built this era on character and grit. There is literally no hyperbole for our success story, and if you refuse to see that, you're going to regret it for a long, long time.

Seacrest out.

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For those that don’t know, Jon Gruden has been doing an unboxing series where he receives care packages from programs, opens them up and talks about them a bit.

CMC and Iowa State just sent him one and it comes at no better time because Jon loves Tyrese Haliburton. Lot of pumping up of the basketball program, football program and even a Hooters shoutout.

Hits the shot to force overtime, The dude is CLUTCH.

Not so good for the Cougs.

RECRUITING: Iowa State's 2026 QB commit picked up an Alabama offer a month after announcing the Cyclones as his choice.

He caught up with @cfchangs9 to talk about it.

ESPN has been doing this for all the MBB power leagues.

Chicken butt!



Someone in the office just set me up with the "Guess what?" part and I slammed it home. Pretty proud of that.

On today’s pod Brent Blum mentioned selling game worn jerseys or game balls as a way to raise a little extra revenue in the future. If you could have any specific piece of game-used Cyclone memorabilia, what would it be and why?

Chris Williams and Brent Blum react to the bombshell report that could put guidelines around NIL and potentially change the college sports landscape. How does it affect Iowa State? All this and more presented by Mechdyne.