Baylor or UNI? Which team is less important to ISU?
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Why exactly?
If we're limiting this to football - I can kinda see it. Although it seems to me that we play UNI more often than we play Baylor, or maybe it just seems like it. Furthermore, IMO if we lose to UNI the season is OVER for all intesive purposes. Fan support is tanked, it's almost unrecoverable from a post season standpoint (again - this is FB).
We play them as often as Baylor in BBall, and probably more often in things like volleyball and wrestling and a number of other sports.
True - UNI has zero effect on conference issues. But they have every bit the impact, maybe more, than Baylor on post season for most sports. But who are we kidding right now in terms of conference finishes - if we can't get by UNI, we aren't making much of a splash in conference anyway.
Losing to UNI is worse than losing to Baylor.
Beating Baylor is more important than beating UNI.
Beating Baylor is more important than beating UNI.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding....
....we have a winner.
But, we shouldn't be in a situation where we should have to worry about losing to UNI, so I would still say Baylor.
Our fan support was just fine when we got killed by them a few years ago on the football field. Of course we followed that up with the Iowa win and IMO that has a much larger fan support factor than the UNI game.
They are D1-AA which is a different subdivision. He asked which division I was referring to and I specified D1 as opposed to B12. I wasn't saying they weren't a D1 school.
Oh. Well, if you put it that way, UNI would have more success than Baylor. :biggrin:The real question is, who would have more success in the Big 12
I figured that mostly everyone thought that, but there are surprisingly more UNI people on here who think differently. For instance, Creighton should be a more important game in bball to them than Iowa State, and that doesnt bother me one bit.
well, lets see. Baylor may be a sorry *** school but at least for now they are BigXII. UNI is not only not in our conference they aren't even D1, which makes them irrelevant except when we play them. Add to that the fact that most of them are hawkeye fans and I have to say UNI without a doubt.
Ok - I'll try again (Jeremy, there's problems. I've had lots of DB errors popping up and my reply just vanished, weird font in typing it as well).
The last UNI loss was during Chiz's first season and the fans were optimistic as much as anything. They got a bye with that. If that were year 4 it would've been a meltdown of epic proportions.
I misinterpreted the question. I was looking at from who do I care more about, and not which team is more important to the athletic programs. It doesn't change my perspective much. I'm all for conference titles being a priority. But in the end - if Baylor is the roadblock to true conference success ..... :no:
In the end, it's pretty close to a wash IMO.
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