Well like the 200th best man in the world drunk and smoking between games did pummel Williams a number of years ago so maybe he could.
Audi Crooks to Transfer
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Do the first 5. And remember we’re talking nationally relevant. Not who Iowa State fans recall as relevant. But truly talked about nationally by the talking heads.
I will also state an unpopular opinion to many on the board. Women’s basketball is more popular to ISU fans than other colleges teams fans in general. And it’s more popular to other colleges teams in general than it is to most sports fans.
I can’t name a single women’s college basketball player outside of ISU, and I’m more tuned into college sports than most people.
I can’t name a single women’s college basketball player outside of ISU, and I’m more tuned into college sports than most people.
I would assume Blum meant, "while a student-athlete at ISU".
It's also important to qualify that Blum's claim was nationally relevant while they were at Iowa State, not later in a professional carreer. Purdy and Haliburton weren't talked about as much as Audi while they were here.
Audi is probably the ISU player I've seen in the most advertisements for ESPN. I would argue that Audi is probably the most nationally known player for ISU to in proportion to her sports popularity. Audi was talked about a lot more in WBB media than say Purdy in CFB media.
Cael Sanderson for one?
You putting her above Cael who was on a Wheeties box?
Marcus Fizer and Troy Davis, are a couple more
For sure. The recency bias is strong around here.
Maybe even Chris Taylor? He was the largest wrestler ever for the longest time.
I will go back a bit more. Danny Harris in the 400 hurdles. Won the silver medal and was the only guy to beat Edwin Moses in like 15 years. I believe he was still at ISU or had just graduated.
Matt Blair was no slouch for the Vikings
I think these are good examples, but it's far from a long list. I was a child or not born when all of these people mentioned played, so I don't have any context for whether their talked about in national media or not.
It's not easy to compare across decades, but Audi was the most googled WBB player this year. Would that be true for these other players? I would think that would true be for Cael, but would it be for Fizer or Davis? I don't mean it in the literal sense, but more as the level of celebrity within a certain sport.
Davis was 5th and 2nd in the Heisman. It was heavily talked about as him being the first (and second) player to never win the Heisman after gaining 2k yards. He set the single game rushing record, he was the only player to have consecutive 2k yard seasons. He was talked about a lot.
Fizer was dominant. A lottery pick on the Big 12 champs and his dunks were shown a lot. An E8 run with the second best team in the nation.
Danny Harris was talked about on CBS sports and the sports pages for a while when he broke Edwin Moses streak. Back then track and field was much more popular than it is now.
I live in Indiana. People here love basketball, but I doubt anyone knows who Audi Crooks is. People often know more about our men’s basketball team and our football team than I would expect. Audi is talked about by the national media when talking about Iowa State women’s basketball, but I don’t think the non ISU person really cares very much.
he is a big supporter of hers on here. cant say anything bad about her.
Yep I agree with Brent Blum: “losing Audi Crooks was a gut punch of all gut punches.”
