He doesn't know Rogers at all. Probably has never spoken to him. I'm guessing Rogers will do the media rounds at some point after the transfer window settles down. He's been busy with more important things, as has the whole staff.
Williams & Blum: Massive week looms for men’s hoops; How good can football be?
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I'll tend to agree. Sometimes I wish the guys would get more rest in November and December but Jefferson is the only guy in the top 20 in minutes played in the Big 12 this year and he's 19th.
Yes, people are very good at remembering only snippets of specific teams, usually biased by the team's postseason results.
A few notable games from the 1999/2000 team:
- Losing at Drake in the second game of the season
- Winning at Nebraska by just 1 (Nebraska finished the season 11-19)
- Winning against Texas A&M at home by just 7 (A&M finished the season 8-20)
- Losing at Colorado by 12 (to be fair, playing at elevation is tough, but Colorado also wasn't an NCAA tournament team)
- Winning at Texas Tech by just 8 (Texas Tech finished the season 12-16, 3-13 in the Big 12)
None of this is to say that the 99/00 team wasn't great; just that they had games where they underperformed and weren't dominant, similar to this team and every team, no matter how good.
This is a good list but I'm not sure if I'd even say it was underperformance (except for Drake but the story goes that Larry told Tinsley it would be the hardest game he'd ever play so it was a lesson in there somewhere) as much as it is just how a basketball season goes.
They also gave up a 20 point lead in the first round and had to make free throws down the stretch and were back and forth and behind Auburn for much of the game before basically wearing them out.
In the 'Mihm dunk' game, they were behind by double digits for a lot of the 1st half before changing the tide and getting a small lead at half.
Fizer had like 17 at half...can you imagine a CF game thread with a lot of 'why is Nurse even out there? Does he even care?' type of posts?
"They lost to Drake" is common contrarianism that gets brought up...yes they did, but then they dog-walked the Big 12 for the rest of the year! If I'm honest though, the Big 12 wasn't all that good in those years. Good at the top but some mid-to-bad teams elsewhere.
I don't know you either and you will never see me refer to you as "this Letterkenny".
And I'm sure Mr. Rogers, Jimmy Rogers or better yet..............Coach Rogers is very busy. See how easy that was?
I don't talk like that either, but Williams does all the time. Might be a southwest Iowa thing.
Since this seems to be a thread for constructive criticism for Chris, can we make it a New Year's resolution to stop taking one comment from one burner on X and applying it to the entire fanbase? No rational fan thinks that the officiating in the Baylor-ISU game was the "worst game every officiated". No one.
Getting two comments on your social media post is a terrible representation of the ISU fan base and its annoying when 99.9% of fans get lumped in with the crazies...
Getting two comments on your social media post is a terrible representation of the ISU fan base and its annoying when 99.9% of fans get lumped in with the crazies...
"Worst ever" when it comes to NCAA BB officiating is a high bar to clear!
They didn't give Baylor points for a bucket scored between Iowa State free throws, so, I mean, it wasn't the worst
It's definitely just imitating the way country bumpkins talk about well known famous people as if no one has ever heard of them.
"You know, this LeBron James is pretty darn good at basketball."
CW does it all the time.
Dog-walked? Hardly.
7 wins by 10 or less, including:
1-point win at NU (4-12/11-19)
7-point home win against A&M (4-12/8-20)
8-point win at Tech (3-13/12-16)
3 other wins by 11 or 12, one of which was at K-State (2-14/9-19)
Even the 22-point home win over Nebraska required a 25-2 run in the 2nd half to break it open.
I think some of the early wide-open 3s is a function of how the blitz defense works. Teams know it's coming and where the ball needs to go, but it's a tough pass to execute over and over they never a get a "normal" possession. They're gonna make it a couple times early while fresh and we live with it because the live ball turnovers are valuable and wearing them down over the course of the game becomes even more valuable.
That said Oklahoma St had it game planned better than maybe any team this season and I wonder if we could be a little less predictable with it
At the relative same point in the season this team has a more impressive resume than the 2000 team. The Purdue win is better than anything the 2000 team accomplished. There is still a lot of season left so I'm reserving judgement but as of now this team looks like the better team and I'm not sure it's really that close.
Andrew Downs said Brock Purdy will be on Penn States sideline on 49ers bye week.
His in-laws are from NE Iowa, he will be in Ames, if ISU has a home game on his bye week. If not he still will be in the state of Iowa visiting wife's family
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That absolutely is not what happened on the podcast.
