quite the show on Netflix. Not sure what to think, but it certainly gets the headline of most gory and sexual thing I’ve seen on Netflix.

Anyone else watched it?

I am so pumped for football. This could be a historic year for Cyclone nation. Seasoned veterans on both sides of the ball, and a very favorable schedule.

Coaches can now challenge offensive and defensive pass interference as well as no calls.

Man, this is just going to be bad.

The NFL really knows how to ruin a good thing and cry baby Sean Payton gets his way.

https://teamcloset.com/cyclonefanatic/shop/product-detail/1001593

A new Cyclone Fanatic tee to kick off Pro Day and Spring Football. This shirt is made in agreement with Kyle Kempt and it is something we'd like to do more of in the future. Working with former Iowa State athletes to create shirts with their likeness. Hope everyone enjoys!

Note: (I am unable to figure out the proper way to insert a pic or PDF and I can't figure out how to get to HTML here, so please see the attached pic for thre table in a readable format. Thanks, CYDJ)

A response by Stewo in another post spurred a question I am not sure has been discussed / explored here yet , or at least recently.

Is there a chance that part of the split in ISU fan base expectations has to do with some people remembering what being "Iowa State" meant "back in the day" vs. what "Iowa State" has meant in the recent past? The premise here is that what people expect might directly correlate to what they have experienced in the their "ISU life." I would like to start a conversation about what you expect and when you became an ISU fan.

Stewo showed a great reminder of the results from the Johnny years. Johnny, is mostly revered by our fan base, but his overall record was rather average. It WAS a huge improvement to what came directly before it, but it would not be acceptable to much of the fan base today.

I segmented his results by splitting out the 4 year period where he was rebuilding. 80-84 culminated in an NIT birth. Those 4 years were a steady improvement, but probably not what most people remember as the golden Johnny years. Remember also, it was harder to achieve the NCAA Tournament prior to 1985 as there were only 48 teams selected. So here are Johnny's results broken out by total and after the NCAA "breakthrough" / NCAA Tourney expansion AND then all the coaches since.

Key:
Total% - Total winning percentage
Big% - Big 8 or Big 12 conference winning percentage
BigChamp% - Percentage of years ISU won the Big 12 or Big 8 season championship
BigTChamp% - Percentage of years ISU won the Big 12 or Big 8 tournament championship
NCAA% - Percentage of years ISU was in the NCAA Tournament
Aveplace% - Average conference placement as a percentage from bottom (0%) to top (100%)

Total% Big% BigChamp% BigTChamp% NCAA% Aveplace%
Johnny Total (80-94) (14) 52% 40% 00% 00% 43% 40%
After BThrough (84-94) (10) 55% 43% 00% 00% 60% 44%
Floyd (94-98) (4) 63% 50% 00% 25% 75% 47%
Eustachy (98-03) (5) 63% 53% 40% 20% 40% 48%
Morgan (03-06) (3) 59% 46% 00% 00% 33% 44%
McDermott (06-10) (5) 46% 28% 00% 00% 00% 17%
Hoiberg (10-15) (5) 67% 56% 00% 40% 80% 58%
Prohm (15-Present) (4) 61% 49% 00% 50% 75% 54%

With no statistical significance here, I made what looked to be relatively higher than average numbers in each category red. We have steadily been getting "better" it seems. We have had more success in getting to the NCAA's and Big 12 Tournament championship games in the past 9 or 10 years.

I didn't intend for this to be a comment on the coaches or teams and don't really want to pick apart why they had lower or higher totals, etc. I'm just using the coaches as "eras" in an effort to determine if frame of reference has anything to do with your expectations of ISU basketball.

Do the old fogies who remember Johnny's years (and/or before) believe it is OK to make the tourney only 50% of the time, to NEVER win a conference championship or conference tourney championship? And likewise, do the whippersnappers only remember the recent success and conference tourney championships and wonder why we are not in the final four more often? Or maybe that only Hoiberg can do great things at ISU, when they might have been in diapers when Eustachy was crushing the Big 12? If you got started in the McDormott years and Hoiberg came along and pulled you from basketball h___, do you expect that is a regular jump that should be taken about every 5 years?

Talk amongst yourselves. Let us know your expectations and when you became an aware Cyclone Basketball fan. "I was a fan at 5 because I had a cyclone cap" is not really "aware". Try to be accurate with when your basketball awareness really happened, either year or era. ;>)

BTW, if you spot any statistical inaccuracies, just comment and I'll correct them. I looked everything up and did a quick spreadsheet, it's not likely to be perfect.

Inexperienced, without formal meteorology education, chasers recklessly going after weather porn was bound to end poorly.

Even actual research meteorologists with published papers got killed doing this. Seems like it should have been obvious getting into a legal agreement with a bunch of whoevers was a bad idea.

Then again, with TWC allegedly asking others to essentially step over dead bodies to grab damning evidence, they probably knew that to begin with. What a mess.

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Real quiet news day today. Probably nothing to talk about. Figured I'd post a call for questions anyway...

SDSU beat writer from Sioux Falls....

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Per Goodman

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In case anybody wants to read the official release.

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University announced Tuesday that Head Men’s Basketball Coach Steve Prohm has agreed to a contract extension with the University through June 30, 2025.

“It was important to (Iowa State President) Dr. Wendy Wintersteen, Coach (Steve) Prohm and me that we sent a message to our student-athletes, future recruits and fans that there is a strong mutual desire for Steve to be our men’s basketball coach,” said Jamie Pollard, Director of Athletics. “He is a terrific coach for Iowa State because he is successful, fits our department culture and exhibits great integrity, kindness and humility.”

Prohm’s Cyclone teams have an 83-53 (.610) overall record and three NCAA Tournament appearances. His 2018-19 team finished 23-12 overall. The Cyclones won this year’s Big 12 Conference Tournament in Kansas City, the second such title for Prohm. Iowa State led the Big 12 in scoring offense this season and its offensive and defensive efficiency ratings were among the nation’s best much of this season.

“I couldn’t be more grateful and appreciative for the chance to be the head men’s basketball coach at Iowa State,” Prohm said. “The support of the school administration has been great and what more can be said about the fan base. Whether we’re playing in Hilton Coliseum, Maui, Kansas City or Tulsa, you can count on amazing support. I have one of the elite college jobs in the nation. My family has really settled in Ames, and we want to be here a long time.”

Prohm has won more than 20 games in seven of eight seasons as a college head coach. His career winning percentage (.695), including four seasons at Murray State, is in the Top 30 nationally for coaches with at least five years of experience.

Iowa State in enjoying one of its best-ever seasons competitively and contract extensions agreed to this year by Prohm and football coach Matt Campbell are foundational to continued success. Additionally, Kevin Dresser was just named the national wrestling coach of the year and women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly won his 500th game at Iowa State this year.


In addition, the Cyclones…

· are currently second in the Big 12 all-sports standings;

· are 36th nationally in the Learfield Director’s Cup after the fall season;

· won Big 12 championships in men’s and women’s cross country and the National Invitation Volleyball Championship last fall;

· were one of 13 schools nationally to play in a bowl game and the NCAA Men’s & Women’s Basketball Tournaments this year;

“I simply could not be more excited about the individuals leading our athletics programs right now,” Pollard said. “We have created a culture of excellence, led by coaches who understand what it takes to be successful at Iowa State.”

Details of Prohm’s contract extension will be available once finalized.

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Shut down the rest of the threads.

Shut down Randy P at the DMR.

Shut down the haters.

For your viewing pleasure.

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Our wireless router must have updated itself recently and ever since, our Amazon Alexa and an outdoor security camera (dericam) won't detect the wifi signal. TVs, phones, tablets all still connect. The camera works if you plug it into the router during setup, but when you unplug it to setup the wifi, it doesn't detect the signal.

I've tried everything I read on the internet. Running just the 2.4 GHz band, then just the 5 GHz band, changing the security type, changing the wifi mode (was on mixed mode), channel width (was in auto), channel (was in auto). The SSID is being broadcast.

Suggestions?

Our last installment...

https://wrestlestat.wordpress.com/2019/03/26/wrestlestat-rankings-final-2019/

Too bad we couldn't have gotten them: https://columbustelegram.com/sports...10f2-46b3-50ea-a6c6-acecf0451584.html?src=rss

First, I do not want to offer any disrespect to Bill Fennelly. He built Iowa State women's basketball into what it is today, and deserves total credit for everything that ISU has achieved while he has been coaching here.

Nevertheless, I have to wonder if his teams have a tendency to underachieve a little bit, vs the potential being offered to a team with Iowa State's fan support. The fan support being given to women's basketball at ISU is top-notch. Iowa State is consistently in the top 5 nationally in average attendance. Again, this is something that Bill Fennelly deserves total credit for. But yet, the ISU women's basketball team has trouble breaking the top 25 consistently in ratings.

I am torn. Bill Fennelly very much deserves to continue coaching here as long as his health will allow it. But at the same time, I wonder if someone else could take the solid foundation that he has worked so hard to build and turn it into a team with more consistency in staying among the top teams in the country in ratings, and winning in the NCAA tournament.

Wow. How to begin. I’ve thought a little about this on the ride home and I think I’m going to divide this end of year summary up into a couple of parts. First, the game.


From the outset of this game you could tell something was off with the sisters. It has been rare this year that players seemed “lost” on the court. Tonight, I felt like I had gone back in time a full year and was watching last year’s version of the Sister’s act. Why? Everyone was differing to Bridget tonight. There were times on offense that Joens and Wise looked like shell shocked freshmen, not seasoned players. There was too much standing around with little ball movement unless it was Bridget. But unfortunately, that wasn’t the only problem. Missed shots. At least five layups that I counted. Clear, open bunnies that weren’t really that close. Every single one of them cost us. How about the three point shooting. I can’t remember a time when I saw such abysmal shooting from deep. Two for seventeen abysmal. One in each half. That was it. Even an average day of shooting and this team wins.


Did the players battle? Oh yes, they definitely put up a fight. The problem was they couldn’t get out of their own way. Poor passes, bad ball handling, and the ability to get lost on defense were all afflictions tonight. Here is what I said Saturday about Missouri State


“Missouri State has some really good three point shooters. They play aggressive defense and can take you out of your flow. If the officials let them get away with their physical play it could be a close game. Of utmost importance is not leaving their shooters open on the perimeter.”


Guess what? We left them wide open for threes on multiple occasions. We let their defense make us stagnant and no flow was created. When we did push things we missed open shots. Missouri State did exactly what they wanted to. They played a ten deep lineup and kept at the sisters all night. No let up. We responded here and there and every time we drew close…we missed another key shot or free throw and let them restretch their lead. Bridget was Bridget. She scrapped, sliced and scored. She scored more than the rest of the team combined. Unfortunately, late in the game MSU started to double and triple team her. So she passed out and we missed wide open looks. How about these glaring stats…


Quarter by Quarter Scoring? 17/13/15/15. Ugh.


Combined shooting for Joens and Wise? 3/21 (Wise was 0-6).


Who else scored besides Bridget? No one.


Bench scoring? MSU 20. ISU 1


The thing I will say about MSU is they are for real and are coached well. Even scarier is the fact they only have one senior on the team. Mostly freshmen and sophs. They will be a team to keep an eye on in the future. To have that confidence in your 10-12 deep says a lot. There was one point where MSU subbed out all five players for another five.


Part II

My one gripe about the game. This entire weekend the officiating was terrible. I’m not saying it was biased one way or another, but to miss some of the calls they did was terrible. A jump ball being called when the MSU player wasn’t even touching the ball. Non-existent fouls being called. Missed foul calls. An MSU player that took three steps before shooting. It was ugly out there. They were embarrassing for NCAA tournament level officials.


Part III

This is the important part. This was a fantastic team that didn’t get to end their season the way they wanted. It’s so much easier to take a loss when you know you played your best. I’m sure this one hurts…badly. I want to say again how much I enjoyed watching this team this year. They had some big wins along the way, some heartbreaking losses, and through it all they were one. We saw records fall. We were graced with ISU’s first Big 12 Player of the Year. Thank you to the coaching staff and to the Twister Sisters. You brought joy to Who-ville and we were privileged to be able to be there with you. Though we can look forward to next year with another great set of recruits coming in to Hilton, we need to relish and reflect on what we had this year. It was special. For Bridget, Alexa, and Mere, I only wish the best. I anticipate seeing Bridget wearing a red oak leaf on her jersey in the next Olympics. She will be the second person I’ve met or known that has done that (I knew Ian Davies who played for Australia’s national team in the 80 and 84 Olympics). I can’t wait to cheer her on one more time. For the rest of the team. Get some rest. Cherish what happened this year and then start working to get ready for next year. Let’s make this winning thing the norm. Thank you ladies.

channel 8 just said he is going to take some time to think about it. I don’t know much about the women’s game. However, now would be a good time if we want to take a shot at Jenny down at Drake.

This year has been absolutely great to watch your games. You had fight and toughness that many could take lessons from. You played with heart and you played as a team and you made me (and I'm pretty much sure everyone else here) proud to be a Cyclone.

Good job and great luck with all your future endeavors, whether "out there" or back in the raucous confines of Hilton next year.

Thanks for the memories, you were outstanding!

Just wondering who to PM.

The game is starting the 2nd overtime period vs. Michigan-Dearborn. 2-2 right now. Win or lose, well done to this team

Backed up to Huxley exit. Plan ahead

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Did anyone else see this? Florida cheer coach obviously takes her job too seriously. We were at the game and the drama totally distracted us from the actual game. She was waving her arms like George Costanza on Seinfeld. LOL.

I apologies if there is an extensive thread on this topic that I missed when looking for one.

Here's my dilemma, the roommate recently bought a puppy for the kids as an xmas present (6 pound little barking cat). While the dog hasn't been as big of an issue as I originally planned, the topic of a fence for the backyard is firmly at the center of discussion. I have a fairly large back yard and live in town. A buddy of mine that works in construction gave me a few ideas and basically said my little fence project is likely in the ball park of atleast 4 grand after it's all said and done if I want material that I am not gonna have to replace any time soon. 4K is not a price I can do at this time.

Therefore, what do people know about invisible dog fences? I've heard they don't work well but is this operator error? What do they cost? TIA