Nice idea, leave out some superfluous words in your messages to decrease your time per post metric. Efficient and like Kevin from Office
Congratulations to Earle Bruce
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Why post big post when small post do trick?
Wow…there are several folks who obviously had some heat smeared in their jock straps and it’s made them ridiculously growly…and I’m not talking about the OP
I may be wrong but that hasn’t slowed me down from spewing my opinion before but I was in my prime bachelorhood in the Bruce Golden Era. ISU snatched him from Tampa, stayed 6 years and then Woody took a swing on national TV. I remember Earle going 3-8 for three years and then 8-3 his final three. I may be wrong on the first three and LtRacshak is free to correct me. I do remember that the fan base was not all that perturbed that he left for greener pastures. We knew we had Crutchfield. But I digress, Earle may be the winningest coach but CMC has far more Bowls. So there is that LtRacshak.
It's so interesting to see something like The Lawrence Welk Show as interpreted by the Eastern Bloc.
Also, this is the face of a man being told "Smile while you pretend to sing, or your family goes to the gulag".
I still blame Woody for the 25+yrs of football darkness. And then Earle's grandson was the assistant that blew up Urban's tenure at tOSU... Earle had later stops at UNI, CSU, and the Barnstormers. Did not know that he was also the leading candidate at KU when they hired Mason in the late 80s. Wasn't he let go at CSU for eerily similar "player treatment issues"?
We really missed on John Cooper, he was part of the Dirty Thirty and supposedly wanted the ISU job. I seem to remember Parks blocked him being considered for some reason, not enough exp or something.
Cooper was on a Kansas staff in the late 60s that had some recruiting improprieties, and Parks used that as a reason not to hire him at ISU.
Wasn't the rumor that Gale Sayers wanted a new set of tires and he would have signed with ISU instead of KU?
As for this thread, no ISU football coach has been better positioned for success than CMC.
Facilities, revenue sharing, TV exposure, Des Moines metro growth, institutional support, and a down conference where you didn't play several top 10 teams each year.
Facilities, revenue sharing, TV exposure, Des Moines metro growth, institutional support, and a down conference where you didn't play several top 10 teams each year.
I don't remember Bruce at ISU, my first ISU football memory is from the Walden years, we played OU at home. It was cold, rainy, my dad took me down to between the locker room doors to see the teams come out after half. OU fans threw oranges at OU, my dad wanted to see the Boz and his multi-color mohawk. I don't think the OU starters saw the filed after half and we still got whooped...
