We are little brother
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Must have not gone to games in the 90's as JTS and the game day experience even for some of the "downer" games we've had recently is still a HUGE difference from where we were 20-30 years ago. The stadium actually looks like a power conference stadium with all the renovations and fans actually care about coming to the games now. There was a time we were a "drinking school with a football problem" where fans would rather just stay in the tailgate lots instead of go into the games or just not even show up at all.
The standard has been raised in the Campbell era. The sky is not falling and the sun still rises every morning. Bottom line is fans get excited and make noise when there is something exciting to cheer about and right now we're seeing some lackluster football being played at times. There are only so many times the PA announcer can try to rile the fans up with "get on your feet, it's thiirrrrddd dowwwwnnn!" only to have the defense give up another big gain and quiet the crowd and getting amped up for another third down grows old. I get pretty jacked up when the game is good but even I lose some enthusiasm when the play on the field sometimes is not matching the intensity the fans were bringing.
Oklahoma State is a prime example of how no matter how much Boone Picken's money is spent you can't buy fan interest when the play on the field is not good. I tend to believe our fans are better than that as they have stuck through some rough seasons over the years and still provided some memorable game day moments during that. The fans are not to blame for this current losing skid and the game day experience has become way better than it ever was in nearly all aspects. I don't really care to compare us with Iowa, they have the bigger stadium which helps but I think both fan bases have never turned on their school to the point where we went seasons with sparse attendance like you see at other schools when things go south.
The standard has been raised in the Campbell era. The sky is not falling and the sun still rises every morning. Bottom line is fans get excited and make noise when there is something exciting to cheer about and right now we're seeing some lackluster football being played at times. There are only so many times the PA announcer can try to rile the fans up with "get on your feet, it's thiirrrrddd dowwwwnnn!" only to have the defense give up another big gain and quiet the crowd and getting amped up for another third down grows old. I get pretty jacked up when the game is good but even I lose some enthusiasm when the play on the field sometimes is not matching the intensity the fans were bringing.
Oklahoma State is a prime example of how no matter how much Boone Picken's money is spent you can't buy fan interest when the play on the field is not good. I tend to believe our fans are better than that as they have stuck through some rough seasons over the years and still provided some memorable game day moments during that. The fans are not to blame for this current losing skid and the game day experience has become way better than it ever was in nearly all aspects. I don't really care to compare us with Iowa, they have the bigger stadium which helps but I think both fan bases have never turned on their school to the point where we went seasons with sparse attendance like you see at other schools when things go south.
I am not attempting to flex. I take my family to Ames. I have only been to Iowa City when ISU has been to town or when Im on the sidelines taking pictures.
Very old. And even in the 1930s we put a premium on punting... lol. Kinnick with 730+ yards of punting in the ND game alone.
Lol I don't know what you're talking about. The early 2010s were absolutely awful. You are romanticizing your memories of that era. Go back and watch highlights. That was a small time atmosphere with no identity. We're still trying to find that, but the stadium and crowd is so much better than it used to be.
There's a lot of recency bias in this thread. The Arizona game looked fantastic. There were several games last season that were among the best atmospheres I've seen at JTS. We're routinely putting 55-61k in the stands, which is 10k more than the 2010s.
Kinnick is a great college football environment that beats a lot of atmospheres around the country. But it's suscpetible to the same issue that we're experiencing right now: losing.
Great. I was asking as Jack Trice was getting ~102 for the Arizona game. I'll upload when I receive it. I believe the summary has a condensed timeline with specific highlighted sound spikes.
Haha, this is what it comes down to? Yes, IC is full of drunk idiots who've never spent more than a day in IC. Why don't you just go to a WWE event? Your idea of a football game sounds like something you'd see in a low-grade movie, not on an actual college campus.
I just want the fans to be loud on more than 3rd down and I dont want people to get yelled at for standing.
That was my freshman year at ISU but had been to a few games before then too. You should know as well as I do how far things have come since then. We had some pretty lean attendance some games especially late in the season.
If this thread is any indication you're probably doing more than just standing and are also wearing a Hawkeye shirt.
For starters, read the room.
Effective communication has three parts...the sender the message, and the receiver.
All three have to be appropriate or there's no communication.
The sender needs to properly assess his audience. You did not.
The message has to be crafted in a way that is comprehensible as well as palatable to the receiver. Yours is not.
As for the receivers, absolutely no one here is interested in hearing fairy tale assessments of Squawkeye Whateveritis, dressed up as superiority. Just makes you look bad, Bruh.
In other words, go peddle that bee-ess somewhere else.
Good luck, and may you live in interesting times.
There is no way you are an ISU fan. Zero chance.
Your posts make me positive you are a HAWK TROLL, pretending to be an ISU fan
I have NEVER heard an ISU fan EVER that would refer to us as "little brother" ONLY HAWK TROLLS DO THAT!
I also have NEVER heard an ISU fan refer to a game at ISU, in JTS or Hilton etc as being In AMES!!! I have only ever heard Hawk Trolls refer to anything at ISU as "'in Ames" And you have consistently, repeatedly called it that... in "Ames". No one that is an ISU fan refers to things as being "in Ames" In that context.
You for sure are a hawk posing as a Cyclone fan, trying to be clever.
You didnt post here for 4 years, then posted this gem, and replied to in a dozen times? Because this is the first thing you have to discuss about ISU, and are only passionate about this? Yeah smells like BS fake username hawk troll crap to me.
While I agree that our fan base in the stands could do better, they were a factor early in the BYU and ASU games, you lost your audience with your "little brother" BS. I agree the fans could do better and wish they would, I am not sure this is the right recipe to make change.
