Official Signing Day Thread

[sunset]

Please tell me this is their logo. I'll have to say Freeport Pretzels is hard to beat, but not hard to eat!

Take away the rainbow and stars and you aren't far off. That t-shirt is one of my prized posessions. Right alongside my "Historic Council Bluffs, IA...... Home of the Black Squirrel" shirt.

 

[StLouisClone]

Its going to be fun to see all of these WR's in action next year. We are going to have a very explosive offense.

Yep. I remember reading that Rice had something like 30 scoring drives last season of 2 minutes or less. I have a feeling the scoreboard at Trice will be lit up early and often in 2009!

 

[dunar]

How 'bout this one: the Brush (Colorado) Beetdiggers

And remember, big red to the west used to be the Bugeaters!

 

[GriffClones]

Bellamy still hasn't shown up on cyclones.com so I don't believe it yet!

 

[sunset]

It looks like we could be stacked at receiver.

 

[Ciclone]

Nice little quote by Lichtenberg at signing

 

[CyValley]

This from Darius Reynolds's bio at cyclones.com:

. . . went to the same high school as former Iowa State All-American Dexter Green.

 

[Ciclone]

It looks like we could be stacked at receiver.

Yeah...maybe instead of signing 5 OLs each year it'll be 5 wideouts. The spread to end all spreads.

 

[OWLCITYCYFAN]

I think some of the strange mascot names you see these days stem from schools having to change their formerly Native American nicknames to more PC nicknames. I have seen a lot of this at small schools in rural areas.

Am I the only one here old enough to remember the Everly (IA) Cattlefeeders? I actually think consolidations have "wiped out" more unique mascots than PCness has created; if I read things correctly, Everly's school system merged into Clay Central in 1990.

 

[CRAZYGREG]

Yeah...maybe instead of signing 5 OLs each year it'll be 5 wideouts. The spread to end all spreads.

So the A-11 is coming to ISU? :wink:

 

[Jonecy]

Great article - thanks for sharing. I love guys like this and I'm glad he's a cyclone! We're gonna have a lot of guys playing with a chip on their shoulder and that's fine by me! :wink:

Edit: I was referring to the Beau article posted....

 

[joefrog]

Am I the only one here old enough to remember the Everly (IA) Cattlefeeders? I actually think consolidations have "wiped out" more unique mascots than PCness has created; if I read things correctly, Everly's school system merged into Clay Central in 1990.

I do! Nothing better than meeting a girl from Everly and saying "So, you're a Cattlefeeder?". Instant in.

 

[cycloneman003]

so Bellamy to the good guys?!

still no official word on Mars either? if we could get both late on signing day that would be awesome!

 

[Wesley]

I'm not a fan of this Beau kid saying that the big schools didn't look at him because he's white. Maybe he wasn't good enough for the OUs and Baylors of the world to come a knocking on his door.

This situation reminds me of a time about 25 years ago when a young Latino actor caused a bit of a ruckus because he thought that he was being passed over for some serious acting gigs because of his race. That actor, Cheech Marin. Tunrs out, he was just wasn't a good actor and that's why they gave the role of Scarface to Al Pacino instead of Cheech. The rest is history.

Oklahoma is very Republican and old school type of people. This is somewhat normal thing to say in that area. I know Iowa is pretty much Democrat and it may not seem fitting, but just accept this is common way of thinking. When he gets to Ames, we can joke about it sopme more.

 

[Longhorns3131]

Iowa's class looks pretty pathetic

 

[Cydkar]

Yes I actually beleive it a little bit. Jerry Jones the owner of the Dallas Cowboys admitted it on inside the NFL one time.

Jerry sure can assemble a team.

 

[Longhorns3131]

Fabian Brown went to UNI.. btw ( former ISU player)

 

[CyForPresident]

Yeah...maybe instead of signing 5 OLs each year it'll be 5 wideouts. The spread to end all spreads.

One Spread to rule them all,
One Spread to find them,
One Spread to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.

 

[cycloneman003]

Fabian Brown went to UNI.. btw ( former ISU player)

never panned out in JUCO i guess... to bad he couldnt qualify out of high school

 

[Wesley]

I do! Nothing better than meeting a girl from Everly and saying "So, you're a Cattlefeeder?". Instant in.

Or where do you want to feed bucket tonight.