A must-read piece for any ISU fan from the Athletic...

[RonBurgundy]

Just be happy it isn't MidAmerican Plaza®™ presented by Pioneer®™.

Not yet anyway.

It is inevitable. The entertainment district in KC is called Power & Light after KCPL. The entertainment district in Arlington outside Cowboy Stadium is called Live! by Loews.

Oh, they will come, Ray.

 

[MeanDean]

True. But there’s plenty of luck. We’re lucky he paid attention that day. We’re lucky that he wasn’t swayed by the Missouri job the year he came here. We’re lucky his family likes it here. We’re lucky that the one year when he really may have been open to moving on, he didn’t get the chance.

And we're lucky that we even scheduled Toledo AT ALL.

 

[CYEATHAWK]

Just be happy it isn't MidAmerican Plaza®™ presented by Pioneer®™.

Not yet anyway.

And elated it's not the "Case IH redzone".

 

[NoCreativity]

Basketball is just weird. I bet few programs have as many sweet 16s as we have in the last 10-15 years with no going further

I think I looked it up this year and only a couple teams like Tennessee and BYU have had as much success as ISU the last 30 years without a Final 4 appearance. We are definitely in the top 5.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

Afterward, Pollard received a text from Campbell, who let the athletic director know if he needed to withhold more, he could. The athletic director choked up five years later recalling that moment: “Who does that?”

“It was critical for me to make sure that we kept our great people,” Campbell said. “It’s always been about that, the people that are working with us here. It did end up taking a lot more than whatever the 10 percent was, but I would rather take it than lose some of our good people that it was going to affect.”


i love this man



also someone explain to me how copley gets an interview for that? lol

Two timer

 

[cytor]

Between the forum and some W&B podcasts there’s been a healthy debate about who belongs on ISU’s ‘Mount Rushmore.’

As time continues to go by, and reading things like this, we’re at the point where I’m not sure how you can leave Pollard off the ‘mountain.’

Maybe an Honorable Mention to Gary Barta for helping hold back the Hoks for years of ineptitude, allowing ISU to take center stage.

 

[Texbudman]

It is inevitable. The entertainment district in KC is called Power & Light after KCPL. The entertainment district in Arlington outside Cowboy Stadium is called Live! by Loews.

Oh, they will come, Ray.

But if they come with deep pockets let 'em come!

 

[cyatheart]

There shouldn’t be a day that goes by that we don’t thank our lucky stars that we’ve had Campbell for 10 years.

We like to talk about how unlucky we are. But the stroke of luck that got us him and that has kept him here is worth a hell of a lot.

And Matt would not be here either if Jaime were not. Biggest thing long term is Jaime retiring, impossible to replace him really.

 

[cyclones500]

This still just kills me: "In what once was a sprawling parking lot between Jack Trice Stadium and Hilton Coliseum, a new $225 million public-private development called CyTown is scheduled to open in 2027." I sincerely wish we would have named it Tornado Alley or the Storm Center or something clever...

And if you believe that CyTown is the best we could come up with, or that it's an awesome name, I'd love to hear "why" you think so.

Although others have responded to this post already ... asking a general question, I'm not certain: Is CyTown the official name or just the working title?

Tornado Alley & Storm Center sound almost too foreboding for a plaza, but maybe they could be areas within or "street names." I think it'd be cool to have street names in the main segment. Perhaps that's already in the overall vision (again, I don't know all the details)

 

[Pope]

So...you admit to not reading the article, but it appears that you chose to be dismissive of the content based on a few words at the very beginning of the piece?

Sigh...for all of our recent overall success this kind of "victim" mindset is why they (Hawk fans) still call us "little brother".

Who said I was dismissive of the article?? I simply said I hadn't read it yet, so spare me your little brother lecture, Chippewa.

All I could see in the post was the very first sentence of the article which referred to ISU's athletic department as a "Forever college sports have not". And knowing it was written by a Hawkeye beat writer for a publication that doesn't feel ISU is deserving of it's own dedicated writer, I asked how such a positive article could begin with such an awful backhanded compliment.

 

[CyValley2]

And we're lucky that we even scheduled Toledo AT ALL.

This point defeats my point that luck wasn't involved. Oh, yes it was! A case of unintended consequences. That's one definition of luck, isn't it?

 

[Acylum]

And Matt would not be here either if Jaime were not. Biggest thing long term is Jaime retiring, impossible to replace him really.

It’s “Jamie”. He’s going on 25 years at ISU.

 

[cyclones500]

It’s “Jamie”. He’s going on 25 years at ISU.

And he hired "Rhodes"

 

[harimad]

Haven't read the article, but if it's so complimentary about ISU, why did this Hawkeye dedicated writer have to begin his article with the following words?

"Forever a college sports have-not, the Iowa State athletic department...."

Bro it’s the truth. Get mad about something worth getting mad about.

 

[ISUChippewa]

Who said I was dismissive of the article?? I simply said I hadn't read it yet, so spare me your little brother lecture, Chippewa.

All I could see in the post was the very first sentence of the article which referred to ISU's athletic department as a "Forever college sports have not". And knowing it was written by a Hawkeye beat writer for a publication that doesn't feel ISU is deserving of it's own dedicated writer, I asked how such a positive article could begin with such an awful backhanded compliment.

Relax.

So have you actually read the article then?

And have you seen the general state of journalism lately, sports and otherwise? If you are demanding that we have our own separate beat writer before declaring that anything written about us can be legitimate you're in for a long wait. Just seems like a strange hill to make a stand on.

 

[hiltonisheaven]

Who said I was dismissive of the article?? I simply said I hadn't read it yet, so spare me your little brother lecture, Chippewa.

All I could see in the post was the very first sentence of the article which referred to ISU's athletic department as a "Forever college sports have not". And knowing it was written by a Hawkeye beat writer for a publication that doesn't feel ISU is deserving of it's own dedicated writer, I asked how such a positive article could begin with such an awful backhanded compliment.

I think the statement is probably fair and was meant to acknowledge how far ISU has come and how much credit Jamie and others deserve.

 

[qwerty]

Just be happy it isn't MidAmerican Plaza®™ presented by Pioneer®™.

Not yet anyway.

You mean Kum & Go Town?

(I know that would never happen as K&G founders are Squawk fans).

 

[Pope]

Relax.

So have you actually read the article then?

And have you seen the general state of journalism lately, sports and otherwise? If you are demanding that we have our own separate beat writer before declaring that anything written about us can be legitimate you're in for a long wait. Just seems like a strange hill to make a stand on.

I'm very relaxed and, no, I haven't read the article yet. I'm not an Athletic subscriber and I'm not smart enough to know how to pirate the article.

It's wonderful the article turned out to be such a positive piece, despite its opening sentence. And that opening statement may be completely true, but it's like your annoying neighbor saying to you in front of many other people "Hey, given your wife's lifelong struggles with her weight, it's really amazing she is able to fit into that dress now."

I guess I just have a thing about backhanded compliments. I guess I also have a thing about supporting a publication who feels my favorite university isn't worthy of having its own dedicated writer. I already have far too many monthly subscriptions, so I'm not going to support a magazine that chooses to cover Iowa State with a beat writer from its rival team. Nothing to do with 'little brother' complex, just a matter of principle.


Edit: I just now read the article since someone provided a free version, and it is indeed extremely positive. Nice work by Iowa's beat writer.

 

[mschmitty17]

Another way around the paywall, https://archive.ph/NVq6W

 

[brokenloginagain]

positive article on ISU in a national publication.

CF complains.

Sky is blue.

Oh and Cytown is going to be awesome, no matter what's it's called!