Conspiracy!!1!

[stormchaser2014]

Cocaine's a hell of a drug

 

[cyclonez7]

VEISHEA riot was an inside job

 

[jcyclonee]

who keeps porn in their glove box?

What is this "porn" you speak of? Is it not pron?

 

[CyOps]

I'm eagerly awaiting Conspiracy!!2!

 

[jtdoyle1]

1. Fred gets ready to leave for the NBA, so he and Pollard bring TJ back intending to set him up as the next coach.
2. Leath decides he wants a big name hire, forces Pollard to use a search firm.
3. Search firm "contacts" Hornacek, resulting in leak and FUBAR/SNAFU.
4. Search firm is the same one used to hire Leath, selected by BoR/Branstead.
5. Branstad is known to want to consolidate all state universities into a single system with different campuses. Started with AIB/UofI.

This is all a plot by Branstad to slowly choke out ISU athletics, which will make it easier to combine all three state universities into a singe university system. If ISU athletics are strong, he can't afford politically to blow them up. Football is playing its part, but MBB and the non-revenue sports aren't. If ISU MBB falls, then the rest of the AD quickly follows and ISU athletics can be quickly and quietly pushed into the UofI athletic department where big-revenue football is king.

Okay, let's for a second suspend the fact that you are insane and look at this theory objectively... Don't other states with consolidated university systems still have independent athletic programs on each of the individual campuses???

 

[CtownCyclone]

Okay, let's for a second suspend the fact that you are insane and look at this theory objectively... Don't other states with consolidated university systems still have independent athletic programs on each of the individual campuses???

You aren't taking this far enough. Once the Branstache has consolidated all of the schools, he will drain funding from all campuses (save one), lowering enrollment, and by extension, reducing fan support. No fans = no money = no more athletics.

 

[ISU85]

This makes at least as much sense as whatever Hornacek's agent was doing yesterday.

Can I subscribe to your newsletter?

 

[laminak]

VEISHEA riot was an inside job

So was the loss to UAB. BDJ was paid off to be a halftime distraction so U of I could go further in the tournament, setting up the eventual takeover.

 

[laminak]

You aren't taking this far enough. Once the Branstache has consolidated all of the schools, he will drain funding from all campuses (save one), lowering enrollment, and by extension, reducing fan support. No fans = no money = no more athletics.

So is the plan to lower enrollment to only western Chicago suburbian students to solve Iowa's Brain Drain problem of Iowan kids getting their education here and leaving?

 

[Cyclonestate78]

Okay, let's for a second suspend the fact that you are insane and look at this theory objectively... Don't other states with consolidated university systems still have independent athletic programs on each of the individual campuses???

Sure they do... Do you want Iowa State to become the next University of Nebraska - Omaha or University of Wisconsin Whitewater? I would prefer ISU not become a D-2 or D-3 athletics program.

 

[CtownCyclone]

So is the plan to lower enrollment to only western Chicago suburbian students to solve Iowa's Brain Drain problem of Iowan kids getting their education here and leaving?

A nefarious subplot. Makes the "Brain Drain" numbers look better to the unobservant.

 

[besserheimerphat]

So was the loss to UAB. BDJ was paid off to be a halftime distraction so U of I could go further in the tournament, setting up the eventual takeover.

****, can't believe I missed that.

 

[jtdoyle1]

Sure they do... Do you want Iowa State to become the next University of Nebraska - Omaha or University of Wisconsin Whitewater? I would prefer ISU not become a D-2 or D-3 athletics program.

Ever heard of University of California - Los Angeles, University of California- Berkley, etc.

 

[CyBobby]

These conspiracy theories remind me of thee old Soviet Union...Suspecting their to be a Commie under every Rock....oops Expecting their to be a Conspiracy under every Rock..............lol

Gotta Love Yee Olde Communist Soviet Union!!

 

[Sioux_Per_Cy]

BTW, we didn't land on the moon and Oswald didn't act alone.

 

[Dandy]

!!1!

:goofy:

 

[besserheimerphat]

These conspiracy theories remind me of thee old Soviet Union...Suspecting their to be a Commie under every Rock....oops Expecting their to be a Conspiracy under every Rock..............lol

Gotta Love Yee Olde Communist Soviet Union!!

This is really starting to make sense now. It wasn't Hornacek's agent, it was a professional Russian troll trying to destabilize the US - starting with a small Midwestern town. Planting the seeds of revolution in the most fertile soil in the world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/m...nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

 

[MeowingCows]

Sure they do... Do you want Iowa State to become the next University of Nebraska - Omaha or University of Wisconsin Whitewater? I would prefer ISU not become a D-2 or D-3 athletics program.

Awesome abbreviation -- UNO. I could get behind this.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Ever heard of University of California - Los Angeles, University of California- Berkley, etc.

Those are the two high end AD's. There are 7 more...

 

[VeloClone]

So what I have gotten out of this thread so far is that Lee Harvey Oswald may or may not have been on the first solo flight to the moon.