This sentiment coming off hosting gameday makes it more clueless than usual.
I seem to remember Iowa dropping five in a row to Iowa State, including a year where we were their only regular season loss, and they survived.The game should be played every year. Not playing makes about as much sense as Rutgers being a Big Ten team or Mizzou in the SEC.
This little streak they’ve put together will come to an end soon. For some perspective, here is a brief summary of the current 5 year streak:
2015 - Rhoads’ final year. Some talent but not a good college football team.
2016 - Campbell’s first team in second game of season. Not ready for anything.
2017 - Playing a QB who left the team two weeks later.
2018 - Brock who?
2019 - You saw the game yesterday.
A lot if people also don't realize that it isn't the 1980s anymore, and there's more to building a program than winning your in state rivalry game. Regardless of how we do against the Hawks, if we continue to have 8 win seasons we'll get attention and we'll fortify the program. Hell, the Hawks get the national attention they do just by stringing together a bunch of 7 to 9 win seasons without winning their conference or even division. We need the series to be competitive, which it has been over the past 20 years. The games are almost always close. The streaks are painful but when the teams are evenly matched they don't last forever.This x100
A lot of people don’t realize Iowa was a joke until Fry and he made it a point to run ISU into the ground to win this state. It worked, and the only way to change that is to take them on and de-throne them. Running away won’t change the narrative.
OP probably wants to drop down to a non P5 conference since we've never won a Big 12 conference title.
“We?”
Yes, we.
I'll never understand why people have an issue with that?
Anyone who supports the ISU football program through buying tickets, donations, etc.... is all apart of this. It all matters. Without the support from fans, the program would be nowhere.
For the record, our fan base has just as many douchebags looking for a fight. I was embarrassed by some of the Cyclone fans around us yesterday.
Who could've thought ass holes don't mix and that ass holes with alcohol REALLY don't mix?
If you don't have the passion that @clonedude showed in his post, why are you even on CF?There is a point you missed again
Do you have a point?
You know what the point is
If you don't have the passion that @clonedude showed in his post, why are you even on CF?
I guess we don't Einstein. Maybe you could enlighten us? We're not supposed to say "we" when referring to the ISU football team, or basketball team, or any sports team? Is that "the point"?
Meh, Iowa is a solid P5 for the non con and it's convenient. But "good for the state" is stupid. It's good for Ames and Iowa City.
There's no denying that the best strategic option for the program is to load up on cupcakes and start every season 3-0. It literally doesn't hurt our current program state in any way.
He’s assigning himself fandom, and not necessarily sincere about it.
Calm down. Tough l last night. You’ll be fine.
In what scenario does a loss to an Iowa or UNI benefit us more than being 3-0 against garbage teams? Did those losses to Iowa help us win the conference lately?I couldn’t disagree with this more. Sounds like a great way to guarantee some rough lessons in conference play.
This team knows it’s weaknesses and has a month to fix them before conference play starts. They aren’t competing for the big 12 the last two years playing 3 powder puffs.