Wasn't able to find a thread - feel free to lock this if there is one. What do you all think of the two finalists? The Search for Iowa State’s Next President

Been under the weather and this game sort of snuck up on me.

No. 14 Iowa State (1-0, 0-0 Big 12) vs. Southern (0-1, 0-0 SWAC)

Hilton Coliseum – Ames, Iowa

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 – 6:30 p.m. CT

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Iowa State meets Southern for the seventh time in the last 11 seasons on Wednesday night, all seven of which will have been played in Ames. The Cyclones have take all six of the previous contests from the Jaguars by an average margin of victory of 30.6 points. - Cyclones.com

Chris Williams and Brent Blum react to the first games for both the Iowa State men and women before previewing football’s trip to TCU. Looking around the Big 12, ISU President candidates, and more. Presented by Mechdyne.

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Dylan Coon and Nigel Dyson discuss Iowa State’s season-opening victory as Tamin Lipsey made his season debut and Milan Momcilovic caught fire. Looking around the Big 12 and the highly-touted freshmen class across college basketball.

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This popped into my FB feed. I was on my walk to class that morning and was pretty surprised to see the fire station building collapsed. And, yes, that was a white firetruck. The excavation that caused the building collapse was for construction of a new bar, appropriated named after this as The Cave Inn. Turned out to be my favorite college bar.

Iowa State has had it's share of great quarterbacks over the years. But can you remember the 4 quarterbacks since 1980 that played in the NFL? Let see. Take the quiz now.

This is gonna be long-winded, so apologies. But curious if anyone has been in a toxic work environment and how you handled it. Note this is all from my perspective, and I am 100% aware a company/HR has their own perspective.

I started a job around 8 months ago. It's an ok company, but I was out of work for a while and needed SOMETHING so accepted their offer. I have 20 years of experience, and this job is knowingly (to the company and to me) very junior as to what I was doing previously. I don't think the work or the position was beneath me in any way.

My manager and I have a fine working relationship, but over the past few months, there is an increase of 'nitpicking' and meetings thrown on calendars to discuss what I consider maybe worthy of a quick Slack message. But I digress...it's how the company works so it's fine. It's things like 'you set your Slack notifications to mute for a few hours and that is a horrible look'. As an FYI, I am fully online, but when I'm head down and writing something I don't like to be disturbed. Anyone can message me, it's just that I won't get back to you for a bit. Also we have weekly metrics that are due every week, and company documents state 'share with manager weekly on Friday'. I share mine every week between 5 and 6...but got told that's past business hours. Fine, I can submit late afternoon.

The company also offers free mental health therapy which I think is great. Six weeks ago I scheduled my first session with a therapist and she had to reschedule, so I did. The second try, she just never joined the session. I informed HR of this and they were concerned and stated they'd flag it up to the highest people because that's not great. A month goes by. I follow up several times with HR and no updates. I schedule a different therapist, they cancel. I tell HR. It's now been six weeks and there is no update or resolve.

Manager throws calendar invites on my calendar with no agenda or topic of what it's for. To me, that is incredibly stressful. A couple of months ago, I told her I would appreciate if I had a sense of what meetings were about before heading into them. Nothing changed.

Had a meeting this morning with manager and it all went south. She brought up Slack and metrics and I said those are fair and I'll work on those, but it's frustrating to see that this types of things are huge concerns for employees but mental health doesn't seem to be. She immediately called me defensive and ended the meeting. Was I defensive? I was not happy but I was just being truthful in my stress and frustration.

She threw a meeting with me and her and HR on the calendar for this afternoon. I walked into a landmine. I stated my concerns, and HR person literally rolled her eyes and said she didn't believe me. Then asked why metrics were sent at 6:00 last week and truth be told, I was interviewing for another job, but I just said I was dealing with some personal matters and HR pressed me asking what personal stuff I was going through. I said it was private and don't have to provide that information, and she pressed me again asking specifically what I'm going through. That is, according to my HR friend I chatted with, horrible behavior for an HR professional and actually could be considered harassment.

Meeting ended with HR basically telling me I better put on my happy company face in my next meeting with colleagues, which is basically a threat.

There are countless other examples of red flags I could mention, but these were the straw that broke the camels back. I'm walking in tomorrow with documentation of what I consider a toxic work environment, and submitting my resignation effective immediately.

Am I too soft? I have never felt so disrespected for providing my view of company issues in my life. I'm too old to deal with a work environment like that.

The first rankings were released tonight:

Iowa State football held their weekly media availability ahead of Saturday's game against TCU.Watch everything Matt Campbell, Jon Heacock and players said at the link below.

With Black Friday approaching I'm keeping an eye open for a portable generator for the RV (and home emergency). Looking at dual fuel in the 3000-3500 watt area. While reading reviews I've run across multiple people having issues in altitude over 5000 ft.
I realize the air is different but wouldn't the fix be a simple carburetor adjustment? I'm not very handy but could probably do that.
Anyone have any experience with this?

Tuesday-Wednesday Night MACtion starts up again tonight. Miami (OH) @ Ohio should be a pretty decent game at 6 pm on ESPN2.

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Important one for the Group of 5 Playoff bid on Friday Night: Tulane @ Memphis 8 pm on ESPN

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Milan Momcilovic returns to form and Tamin Lipsey returns to the court. The Cyclones needed those two in in different ways and got key performances from both. Jake Brend reports from Hilton following Iowa State's 88-50 win over Fairleigh Dickinson at the link below.
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No. 16 Iowa State starts the regular season off with an 88-50 win over Fairleigh Dickinson at Hilton Coliseum.

Watch everything T.J. Otzelberger, Tamin Lipsey and Momcilovic said following the game below. https://cyclonefanatic.com/2025/11/...psey-and-milan-momcilovic-said-after-fdu-win/

Iowa State women's basketball starts the season with an 85-36 win over St. Thomas and showed a lot of fight on defense and some newfound energy at point guard. Jake Brend reports from Hilton Coliseum.

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Since 2018, I have been on the sidelines taking pictures for 27 P4 games between Ames, Iowa City, and Madison. What I have seen this year has convinced me that we are still little brother. Why do I say that? The fans.

Kinnick is far and away a louder and tougher environment to play than Jack Trice. "But JustBecause, its because their stadium is set up better for sound." You would not be wrong in saying that. The pictures below highlight the differences in spacing between the field and the fans at both locations. The fans in Kinnick are considerably closer. There are as many as 13 rows of fans behind the other teams bench before our first row.




But thats not what I am talking about. The 1st half of the BYU game was the first game this season, where fans were loud the whole time. And then the fans quit. We had a 4 point lead and it took 3rd down and the PA announcer to get people to stand up and make noise. Kinnick is loud even when they are on offense and they shouldnt be. With the exception of a couple of endzone sections, they stand the entire game.

I saw a number of people on twitter calling out the south endzone for only being partially full during the game and for good reason.


However the East side isnt much better:


Add in the West side of the stadium sitting on their hands most of the game and there you have it.


"But JustBecause, the team is playing poorly and they arent giving us anything to cheer about." No. Its our jobs as fans to create the environment and help them even when they are down. The first half of BYU showed what difference the crowd can make with 2 false starts in a row. In the second half, we were ahead by 4 points and couldnt be bothered to make noise outside of 3rd down. Its sad really.

No. 14 Iowa State gets the season underway with a 49 point win over St. Thomas.

Watch everything Bill Fennelly, Audi Crooks and Reese Beaty said following the win.

Here ya go...game one!

Check out your memory and see how well you can remember these 6 former point guards for Iowa State. Take the quiz now.

On Monday’s Daily Clone, Jake Brend monologues on the current state of Iowa State football and what has caused the four game losing streak, how Matt Campbell raising the standard is a double-edged sword and what the Cyclones can do to turn it around.

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