are we a basketball school again?
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So much hawk traffic lately I can't keep up with all of them. Must be nothing to talk about on hawkeyenation. Just want to come chill with the big bro like all the recruits
We realistically could have been a 7/8 win team in football last year as well if a couple games would have played out differnt (k-state, WV, maybe even OU)
True. Football is important for many reasons but many Iowa State fans are just as passionate or more about basketball. I am one of them and will be a season ticket holder in basketball but not football. I mean come on... we were a nationally panned call from being undefeated at home in basketball, meanwhile we dropped multiple major games at home in football and fell on our face for the second year in a row in a bowl game.
It is absolutely harder to succeed in football and I'm by all means in support of our football team but to me we are and will continue to be a basketball school until proven otherwise.
As a former Cyclone athlete (XC/Track, '04-'05) I'm thrilled with where we are at in both football and basketball, as well as our resurgence in most olympic sports. My Cyclone pride and hope for the future is at an all time high.
I'd rather a football championship than...pretty much anything. 10 years is too much to bear though. I like basketball too much. How about 5 years of basement Big 12 basketball in exchange for at the very least a BCS Bowl?
I'd give the edge to basketball. As someone said earlier, the ceiling for basketball is so much higher than it is for football.
I agree with this. Football has improved a lot the last 13 years, but the basketball side of it..... Hilton Magic, Johnny, Fred, Floyd, Larry E, that's what this school is more known for I think.
I find this hard to believe. Do they even care about football at KU? Don't make much money if there aren't butts in the seats of your football stadium. I say this having no idea what their attendance numbers are. But ku football? I don't knowwww....
I wish you had a link. Seems like a lot.
did a search and latest numbers (2009) showed a larger income from basketball than football. i must have heard those numbers wrong.
I do not disagree with you at all. But in BBall, we've had some legitimate teams in the past and even this year. Looking at how things played out, in BBall, we were pretty clos a couple of times to having what football would consider a BCS Bowl team. Even this year, get by Ohio State and who knows.
I still think though, with the fanbase football has now, you put ISU on a run that threatens a Big 12 Championship run and this fanbase would explode. Basically, I'm not calling you wrong by any stretch. It's moreso that I would be really interested to see what would happen to ISU football if they did make a serious run at a BCS (or whatever they are going to call them) run and be able to maintain that success going forward, to at least get 8 wins a season.
