Why? As a freshman/sophomore, I found it was way, way more fun to go to a house party and get wasted for $5 than to drop $50 at a bar.
Culver could push for ISU to Big Ten
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Why? As a freshman/sophomore, I found it was way, way more fun to go to a house party and get wasted for $5 than to drop $50 at a bar.
You know that if Iowa was in the Big 12 and ISU in the Big 10, they'd be in big, big trouble right now, don't you?
Good point. It seems that ISU has some connections within the Big 10. Is it wrong to also pray for some divine intervention?
I'm working the Catholic angle with St. Jude (saint of desperate cases and lost causes). Maybe we can get some sway over Notre Dame! :smile:
I don't know. I know that the Big 10 run much better than the Big 12 ever was; it just seems like everyone would be given equal voice. In the case of the Big 12, everyone knows who's running the show - the AD at Texas. In the Big 10, Jim Delany is running things.
Hell no. We are going to need all of the help that we can get. Divine intervention, friends in high places in the Big 10/11... whatever it takes so that ISU doesn't get left out in the cold.
I think God's made it pretty sure he hates ISU. Either that, or we're a modern day story of Job, a la Stephen Baldwin.
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ISU certainly would be a lot stronger (athletically and academically) and Iowa would be weaker. Does Fry still go to Iowa? They would have the advantage of being in the more populated half of the state, which was big back in the day.
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Agreed, for most of them it was because they liked the party scene at IC more (for whatever reason. A house party is a house party to me.) However, I haven't spent 50 dollars at a bar ever, the only times I've ever come close were when it was for a friends birthday. (3 Wise Men galore :biggrin: )
I don't think that there's any doubt that the Big 10 is much better run. Look around.
I still wonder how Michigan and OSU ever bought into equal revenue sharing. Apparently they're run by people how are much more savvy, in terms of long term thinking than the folks at Texas. Then again, after visiting that State, this doesn't surprise me AT ALL.
Governor Chet must have been reading my posts for the last 3 days (LOL). God love him. Less than a 5% chance he can make any difference but all I ever asked for out of our elected officials, the Board of Regents, Athletic Director, and University President is effort. Governor Culver is putting forth effort.
The Big Lug just won my vote!!!
The Big Lug just won my vote!!!
If the Big 12 had the same conception date as the Big 10, there would have been no Big 10 after 1996.
Maybe we're due....after all of these years of the continual kick to the stones, we get our reward weathering all of the storms we've been through......A person once told me, "a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then".....
Right. But it didn't, and here we are. Wasn't the Big 12 just an expansion of the Big 8, which was an expansion of the Big 6?
Careful, who is to say that he did not wait until after the invites had been sent out, and this is just a pathetic PR move.
I'll wait until we see some concrete proof that the state of Iowa has done anything, before I get excited. Of course this would require a decent local media, which central Iowa is lacking...
Interesting..a cyclone being smug especially now when Eulogies are being written.
I would be willing to bet that the number of non-college educated Iowa donors outnumbers the the total of ISU graduate donors. Its called building a fan base. Which is doesn't seem to work at Iowa State. You can't be fan unless you graduated from ISU. Nice economic principle.
