Send him an email on something and the guy writes you back a well-written response that is not full of fluff. This email was in response to asking why they didn't play "Jump Around" after the 3rd quarter this year.
Funny thing is my roommate just graduated last year and he thought the students liked it. Hard to believe there was that much dislike for it when thousands of them were jumping around to the song...
Thank you for the email. I appreciate your writing me. We actually stopped playing it this year at the request of many students. We received a lot of feedback from students telling us that was not an Iowa State tradition and to stop trying to copy Wisconsin. As you may know, that is a huge tradition with the Wisconsin students. Coach McCarney wanted to try and start it here last year but it never fully caught on and as the season went on, we got a lot of negative feedback from our students to stop playing it. Perhaps sometime in the future we can bring it back.
Go Cyclones!
Jamie Pollard
Director of Athletics
Iowa State University
1800 South 4th Street
Jacobson Athletic Building
Ames, IA 50011-1140
515-294-0123 (office)
515-294-0104 (fax)
[email protected]
Funny thing is my roommate just graduated last year and he thought the students liked it. Hard to believe there was that much dislike for it when thousands of them were jumping around to the song...