Since Geotz took over as Iowa AD January 2024...
the CyHawk running total I believe is 27-13 Iowa State.
Go Cyclones!
the CyHawk running total I believe is 27-13 Iowa State.
Go Cyclones!
Pollard/Goetz... CyHawk Series total sine 2024
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This result makes it Iowa State 11, Iowa 9 overall and Iowa State has won 4 of the last 5 (and 1 tie)
It feels great to be at the point where we can finally point at the scoreboard when their mouthbreathing, Walmart fans start shouting about being the dominant program in the state. We own their *****, and they can’t deny it.
I just feel bad for all their fans who didn't know that they had women's basketball before CC and now have to watch and pretend they care.
"Just wait till wres- wait what???"
Which is kind of funny since she seems to be a very competent AD as opposed to Barta who was a walking dumpster fire.
I took my boys to an Iowa baseball game last spring to watch Obermueller pitch...Beth Geotz was there in casual clothing and hanging out. She chatted me and my son up a little bit...she was really friendly and I was impressed with her as a person. Now as the AD at Iowa...I will never cheer for her in terms of winning sporting events...but she does seem like she is willing to make tough decisions and try to steer that department in the right direction.
We have a better athletic department than they do despite all of the astronomical advantages they have.
ISU clinched series win #11 with the WBB game last night.
Well if you ask their Walmart fans, they would insist that all their losses in sports are "quality" losses, so they should always be considered for the playoffs.
Maybe she can get them kicked out of the Big 10 again . . . . that would be a crowning achievement.
Yes, as the WBB win makes it statistically impossible for Iowa to catch up to Iowa State
Hell there are still Hawk fans that will bring up the 15 game losing streak in football we had against them in the 90's when trying to downplay losses to ISU. Even if we were ever to roll off a streak like that against them those same fans next line would likely be "well we did it first."
Basketball rivalry should be pretty healthy for a while, FB obviously is TBD with the coaching change. I don't see either school ever stacking up 10+ win streak again unless 1 of the programs just falls into a prolonged hard time. Since we broke that streak in 98 we have had win streaks against Iowa of 5 games and 2, Iowa has had streaks of 2, 3, and 6. Even CMC had a 3-6 losing record unfortunately but ever since 1998 the series has been mostly competitive where in the 80's and 90's were were consistently getting thumped.
Basketball isn't so much the head to head rivalry as much as their program hasn't really done much for a quarter century and their fans were insane for excepting super mediocre and thinking it was the best possible. ISU had down McD years in there but it overlapped a time when Iowa was even worse somehow, then over Fran's tenure all three of ISU's coaches had radically more success and Iowa fans chose to pretend the only year that mattered was Prohm's one total flameout year.
The Big Ten as an entire conference has also really dropped off in those same 25 years as the Big 12 in basketball has risen to the consistently #1 conference. Part of that is the Big Ten looked at UConn, Arizona and Kansas as willing expension candidates and gave a hard pass while adding some of the historically worst teams like Nebraska and Rutgers and then usually good Maryland fell off the map immediately when they joined. The Pac additions aren't bad in terms of their overall quality historically (Not Big 12 level good, but not bad) but it's still too soon to know if a coast to coast schedule in basketball is going to put them at a competitive disadvantage, it can't help.
In general, college basketball dropped off in that same time period but I agree with your assessment. It is all relative...just prior to the identified era of college basketball was strong across all regions (maybe SEC land wasn't quite as strong?). The Big 8/Big 10/Big East/Pac10 were all strong basketball leagues...fun to watch and fun to follow. I agree that the Big 10 has slumped more than the others. The Big 12 went after players...and the Big 10 seemed satisfied to be a conference of coaches rather than talent!
It should be on upswing now, lots of American and Europeans in college basketball this year who would've been pros in previous couple decades even taking 1 and done age requirement in.
I assume Toure is here because college pro basketball pays much better than euro pro ball. BYU and Texas Tech among others have star players that would have been in the NBA or g league a few years ago.
