CFTV-LIVE: Breaking down Marial Shayok's commitment
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CW said a couple days ago that his guess for the four scholarships were Shayok, Morrow, Juiston, and Alstork. I know he is just guessing too but he has more inside intel than your average joe. He must know something more than we do about Alstork so I am optimistic that we have a chance
I know that was originally reported awhile back but never heard of confirmation the visit w/ Alstork occured. Not to mention I thought the staff was down south Monday visiting Garrison Brooks and Emmitt Williams?
The bottom line is ISU needs to get better. Stop trying to paint Iowa as the monsters of the midway. Honestly, they are not much better than most of the mid-level Big 12 teams that ISU needs to start beating to get to a bowl game. I understand what you are saying about the cupcakes, but when ISU can't beat UNI the issues are much deeper than scheduling.
We should beat UNI, no question. But we should spend the money and get 7 home games every year. Don't do Home and Home series with MAC teams.
I would advocate that the NCAA demand that ALL teams should play 9 Conference games. Complete BS that the SEC only plays 8 games.
I am not afraid of Iowa. Not at all. But consistently playing one of the toughest schedules in the nation is foolish. The Blueprint for success says to play a weak schedule and get a good enough record for a Bowl. K-State, Baylor, etc. have all proven that.
Not only should we play Iowa ever year, we should be in a conference with them.
Great Plains Conference
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Illinois Fighting Illini
Iowa Hawkeyes
Iowa State Cyclones
Kansas Jayhawks
Kansas State Wildcats
Minnesota Golden Gophers
Missouri Tigers
Nebraska Cornhuskers
Northwestern Wildcats
Wisconsin Badgers
You want sold out games, intense rivalries, away fans, and entertaining games, then setup college football and schedules like that, not more P5 versus Sun Belt tomato cans.
Those who aid and abet the mentalities that lead to bland, boring games and poor match-ups and diffuse, diluted conferences with little commonalities or reasons to care about each other have a special place in hell. This goes for non-elite P5 schools (and both ISU and Iowa count) dining on cupcakes and for elite schools and conferences who design schedules so they do not have to play each other often, too. I mean, this is how you ruin a sport, right?
Great Plains Conference
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Illinois Fighting Illini
Iowa Hawkeyes
Iowa State Cyclones
Kansas Jayhawks
Kansas State Wildcats
Minnesota Golden Gophers
Missouri Tigers
Nebraska Cornhuskers
Northwestern Wildcats
Wisconsin Badgers
You want sold out games, intense rivalries, away fans, and entertaining games, then setup college football and schedules like that, not more P5 versus Sun Belt tomato cans.
Those who aid and abet the mentalities that lead to bland, boring games and poor match-ups and diffuse, diluted conferences with little commonalities or reasons to care about each other have a special place in hell. This goes for non-elite P5 schools (and both ISU and Iowa count) dining on cupcakes and for elite schools and conferences who design schedules so they do not have to play each other often, too. I mean, this is how you ruin a sport, right?
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I've never understood why the UNI game can't happen later in the yr when they would be more worn down by their lesser depth.
Also I'd be ok with the Cyhawk game happening every other year.
Also I'd be ok with the Cyhawk game happening every other year.
K-State has played home and homes with UCLA and Miami, played top 5 programs Auburn and Stanford in the last few years, and has upcoming games with Mississippi St and Vandy. Thats a horrible example of scheduling cupcakes unless you are going back to the 90's when they schedule scrub teams to build their program. Comparing their schedule now with Baylor is an insult.
You missed it. We've been in contact and visited him, he just hasn't been here yet.
We also have more than one person on the staff, so we can be more places than one at once.
I'm not in love with Iowa like others here but compare our winning percentage with them and then with the Big 12 the last ten years. We just need to beat KSU, oSu and TT more and that is achievable.
Right, they BUILT what they are now on the backs of cupcakes. I'd be fine with that approach.
Is there an inconsistency between Adam Gray's views on kickers and his view on bowl games? For kickers, he says it doesn't really matter, just score more touchdowns. But for bowl games, he doesn't say "just win more conference games."
I agree with Rob Gray. There is very little reason to think that we should hook our bowl hopes to a pansy non-conference schedule. If we are good enough to win more than 3 games in the Big 12 season, then we don't need to downgrade our non-conference schedule.
Plus, I would add that as we start winning more Big 12 conference games and going to bowls, we will see some more national attention for the Iowa State/Iowa game.
There is no way that I would dump the special-ness and tradition of our in-state rivalry for a short-cut to a 6-6 season. Let's go right for 7-5 or 8-4 including a win over the Hoks.
