'22 Combo Guard Eli King Commits

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Bobber

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It's so cringey to bring up a final four appearance that happened 20 years before the current athletes were born. If you think otherwise though, you and Dickie V will probably get along great!

It's relevant when people are bringing up the last two years were Iowa's best... That's short sighted thinking and a function of Hype. Lord people think Garza is the second coming of Larry Bird.
 
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The Minnesotans making fun of ISU/Ames would be funny if this were a rarer belief. Ames isn’t Minneapolis, but it’s college town with the amenities a college town of 70,000 people has. Some people prefer that, including myself.

And then, of course, there’s the academic slights, which is belief you’ll find in Eastern Iowa as well. The only differences between ISU and Minnesota are that ISU’s mission doesn’t include med and law, and Iowa public colleges don’t send lower scoring local students to satellite campuses. And despite lacking all the money, research and prestige that comes with a med school, ISU is one of only a handful of non-med school universities in the AAU. We’re a very high research output university, and have to be to maintain our AAU status. On a pound for pound basis, I’m 99% certain we produce more research than UM and Iowa. The differences between ISU and Iowa are more structural, but the quality is again essentially the same. It’s unfortunate that ignorance might keep good students from considering ISU.
 

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The Minnesotans making fun of ISU/Ames would be funny if this were a rarer belief. Ames isn’t Minneapolis, but it’s college town with the amenities a college town of 70,000 people has. Some people prefer that, including myself.

And then, of course, there’s the academic slights, which is belief you’ll find in Eastern Iowa as well. The only differences between ISU and Minnesota are that ISU’s mission doesn’t include med and law, and Iowa public colleges don’t send lower scoring local students to satellite campuses. And despite lacking all the money, research and prestige that comes with a med school, ISU is one of only a handful of non-med school universities in the AAU. We’re a very high research output university, and have to be to maintain our AAU status. On a pound for pound basis, I’m 99% certain we produce more research than UM and Iowa. The differences between ISU and Iowa are more structural, but the quality is again essentially the same. It’s unfortunate that ignorance might keep good students from considering ISU.
They think because we’re an agricultural research school we’re just a bunch of dumb rednecks. I don’t know why they can’t get it through their dumb narcissistic elitist skull that they can’t do what we do and we can’t do what they do.
 

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They think because we’re an agricultural research school we’re just a bunch of dumb rednecks. I don’t know why they can’t get it through their dumb narcissistic elitist skull that they can’t do what we do and we can’t do what they do.
We have them beat. We can grow food.
 

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It looks like TWeber was trying to shed light on the situation at Gopherhole and bfriedrichs10 wasn't buying it. Reading through their forums, I think CF is pretty similar.

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I am saying Eli and Tamin are friends and teammates...they talk. Tamin sells Eli on Iowa State. Eli's brother played for the Iowa State coach at a previous stop.
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I will take your word that you know what you're talking about with them being friends and whatnot. My rebuttal is that if Eli is gonna go to ISU because of Tamin then they must be REALLY close. You can't convince me that a team that won 2 games last year has more to sell Eli than the Gophers do.
 

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It looks like TWeber was trying to shed light on the situation at Gopherhole and bfriedrichs10 wasn't buying it. Reading through their forums, I think CF is pretty similar.


bfriedrichs10
I will take your word that you know what you're talking about with them being friends and whatnot. My rebuttal is that if Eli is gonna go to ISU because of Tamin then they must be REALLY close. You can't convince me that a team that won 2 games last year has more to sell Eli than the Gophers do.
Sure we do. We have TJ.
 

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It's relevant when people are bringing up the last two years were Iowa's best... That's short sighted thinking and a function of Hype. Lord people think Garza is the second coming of Larry Bird.

Iowa's own fans think Garza is the best player to ever play in the STATE of iowa.
 

OnlyCyclones

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They think because we’re an agricultural research school we’re just a bunch of dumb rednecks. I don’t know why they can’t get it through their dumb narcissistic elitist skull that they can’t do what we do and we can’t do what they do.
Which is dumb, considering they have a decent ag school as well. They've created some nice apples and hardy winegrape varieties.
 

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They think because we’re an agricultural research school we’re just a bunch of dumb rednecks. I don’t know why they can’t get it through their dumb narcissistic elitist skull that they can’t do what we do and we can’t do what they do.


So Minnesota and Iowa have Law and Medicine. How many of those ******** who tease ISU about academics are enrolled in the law or medicine programs?
 
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One of the more overrated "nat player of the year" winners in my memory. Big 10/East coast bias at it's finest.
I don't know, he was pretty dominate and efficient. #1 on barttorvik player ratings for the past 2 years. I hate Iowa as much as anyone, but he's definitely in the conversation for the best player to ever play college basketball in Iowa.