players commit to the coach, not the university.....it's crazy we even call them "student athletes" at this point too
No Bowl Game — Iowa State Turns Down Bowl Bid
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Yeah, you know what…I’m only getting more angry as I think about it. I hope they all leave now, because evidently there was nothing within these players that told them that they were playing for this university…and not just themselves. I truly believe they’ve embarrassed ISU, and I’m not at all happy about it.
It’s a terrible life lesson for themselves too. When your leader leaves, you don’t just up and quit. What a crock…
Maybe. It was a tough year for them, but Klieman was a solid coach for them. Klein might a great coach for them but he's never been a head coach so its a bit of a gamble.
I remember when Coach O was fired from LSU, there was a max exodus and they had like 35 eligible players for their bowl game and they got trounced by K-State
Portal opens for players on a team that lost its coach 5 days after new coach is hired.
Still not until January though, unless this is wrong which is very possible, or maybe I just don't understand.
https://247sports.com/article/colle...al-2026-rule-changes-nil-qb-market-264813540/
I think he will do well there...smart and like said, beloved. BUT, look how fast they went from a big 12 title to Klieman not being good enough....could happen to him too.
Just another reason why I'll never give a dime to any of this NIL BS.
Imagine being offered a free trip to play a game that 99% of us never got to play again after high school. And instead you decide to take a $500,000 fine. Doesn't sound like the school is in too much trouble financially if we can just eat that amount of money.
Cost me over 2 grand just to go on a 4 day trip last month, worked my ass off to pay for it too. But we're expected to give more...more....more to peoole who dont even want to do their jobs.
Imagine being offered a free trip to play a game that 99% of us never got to play again after high school. And instead you decide to take a $500,000 fine. Doesn't sound like the school is in too much trouble financially if we can just eat that amount of money.
Cost me over 2 grand just to go on a 4 day trip last month, worked my ass off to pay for it too. But we're expected to give more...more....more to peoole who dont even want to do their jobs.
at this point I am not sure what rules actually matter anyway.
teams arent supposed to contact players outside the portal, but do, etc.
No one is in control of the ship anymore when it comes to rules in sports. The NCAA has been neutered and its just the wild west anymore.
Hmm that may have changed then too. If it actually matters. Hell most of these guys have agents to be the middle man now anyway.
Right now the most important thing we should be doing is getting the new staff in place and working to keep players and bring in new players. This is what’s best for the long term health of the program. I love that we are not even thinking about a bowl game. Strategically this was the right move.
Weird tangent:
As a longtime Hurricanes fan does the name Bryan Fortay mean anything to you?
His story always stuck with me as it seemed like he was treated very unfairly in the media.
What happened to him is a stark reminder of how far athlete rights have come.
Anyway, dumb personal story:
Years ago while visiting my in-laws my wife and I went for a walk through her old neighborhood. She was reminiscing and casually mentioned the kid who lived in one of the houses was a star football player who got some kind of important scholarship.
As you might have guessed if you read this far, it was Bryan Fortay. She couldn’t believe I knew who he was.
He and my wife weren’t really friends as he was a “jock” and popular and she, well, wasn’t. Ironically one of her crew of misfit friends achieved some level of fame as a “fan favorite” contestant on a reality show called “Big Brother”, but I digress…
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Ugg…I forgot about the band. I’m really not pleased with our football program right now. This is garbage…a total disregard for our fanbase.
You have to wonder if it ever crossed their minds how excited we got when they got bowl eligible…or how we care when they win or lose in general. Why did they even try so hard over in Ireland? Might as well have just enjoyed the sites over there. They’ve made their whole season mostly meaningless.
It would be interesting to get a national reporter to talk about how crazy it was in the conference room to make bowl selections given all the last minute changes. It seemed like Campbell had already pulled some strings for us to go to a bowl in Phoenix, but it unrvaled this morning. I wonder what other dominoes fell with our opt out.
Bowl games have always been meaningless exhibitions. That's the fun in it. Upper Iowa won a bowl game yesterday and the trophy was the leg lamp from A Christmas Story.
And someone forgot to tell Washington State that they're supposed to decline a bowl game when their head coach leaves.
And someone forgot to tell Washington State that they're supposed to decline a bowl game when their head coach leaves.
