This is gonna be like a post Iowa loss level meltdown around here
Iowa State announces reversal of plans to have fans in the stands for season opener
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yep, you don’t want to be the idiots letting in the highest percent in the country when you are in a state where the numbers are going up. Jamie’s mistake was going in at 40%.
luckily, I honestly do think this gives us a better chance to have fans in October.
They didn't. The original call was not in line with any reasonable medical reccomendaton. Having 25,000 fans show up when you're a nationally recognized hotspot and things are so bad you have the bars closed was insanity.
Has there been an outdoor super-spreader event yet, let alone one with mandatory masks?
They never should have had fans in the first place if public input was going to sway the decision. That was always going to happen.
They never should have had fans in the first place if public input was going to sway the decision. That was always going to happen.
No it isn’t. That would look like a case of you know what the numbers didn’t improve like we expected and we have to readjust. Now we look incompetent or we caved to the mob.
We had a plan, we set the guidelines, we got a lot of input back from a lot of people. We then evaluated the plan and adjusted accordingly and intelligently. Nothing wrong with that. Jamie said at the original announcement, things could change quickly.
I can live with the decision and still support the Cyclones.
I can live with the decision and still support the Cyclones.
Just a week ago, people said JP only cared about money and not fans health......where are those people now?
20% is about the average being allowed in both the SEC and ACC...not sure why we tried anything different...in our case, 12,500 would have been the number and wouldn't have even sniffed regional media coverage.
As long as my ESPN feed is good next Saturday I’ll be okay.
Agree. ISU was only going to look worse over the next 10 days. In today's "double down" culture where people are more concerned with not looking weak by reversing course than with doing what makes the most sense, this was a good move.
He didn't make this decision. His boss made it for him. At least, that's how the press release reads. I'm certainly not suggesting JP only cares about money.
*The medical experts that say things that alarson’s narrative win. Not the ones at the Mayo Clinic, who Jamie was working with to make things work.
Awful leadership by Wintersteen. If you are going to go with an aggressive approach you have to know you will get some blow-back. If you weren't winning to press ahead in the face of that why even bother to try it?
Right decision. I would have felt comfortable with 25% fans which would have allowed for actual space between people, but 25K was too many especially in the current environment. I had tickets and was really debating whether or not I should go. (I won't kid myself, I was probably going unless I was sick or directly exposed to someone who was sick, but I would have felt bad about it.)
Let things die down in Iowa over the next month and I think there's a high chance that by Oct. 3 we can at least have 25%.
Let things die down in Iowa over the next month and I think there's a high chance that by Oct. 3 we can at least have 25%.
or you can wait and see. I bet there are fans in October.
