CW back and forth with Jon Miller on twitter last night.....

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I'm not getting any sense of snarkiness or BS from Miller here on the 1st tweet. I don't get what CW was irritated by. ISU is damn near impossible to beat at Hilton. Play the NCAA tourney in Hilton and ISU whoops ***, round after round. #truth

Yeah, the snark is lost on me, too. He's saying Hilton is a tough place to play, but to do well in the tourney, you have to win away from home, which is true.
 

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I'm not getting any sense of snarkiness or BS from Miller here on the 1st tweet. I don't get what CW was irritated by. ISU is damn near impossible to beat at Hilton. Play the NCAA tourney in Hilton and ISU whoops ***, round after round. #truth


I think it's the "ain't played in that gym" tone. If you've ever heard Miller's voice, you can hear the arrogance. I'm not sure if he's referring to a potential Iowa-ISU matchup in the NCAAs or speaking more generally. If he's speaking generally, he's implying Iowa State won't have postseason success because they can't beat anyone away from Hilton, and that's a "good thing."

Or it's just a Hawkeye blowhard that didn't really think about what he was typing. His main goal was to serve up a zinger for his loyal following of low-life Hayden worshipers.

While CW would be better off not even engaging Miller, I didn't understand Miller's quick jump to "little brother." If that's what Miller wanted to say, he should have just typed it in the original tweet.
 

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Did all you guys really go to ISU? I didn't. I don't get this argument.

It's not the end-all, be-all of course. But it is amusing that Iowa's top supporters/journalists/etc, didn't go to Iowa. To me, that is funny. You just don't see that on the Iowa State side.
 

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It's a dumb argument. I wish it would die too. My parents are diehard ISU fans and have been for decades. Neither went there either.
Me, too ;-) I went to Iowa and only finished up at UNI. Never set foot in an ISU classroom. So what? At the very least, I"m a lifelong State of Iowa taxpayer so I have ownership in Iowa State University. We'll take every ISU fan we can, and like it. No qualifications necessary.
 

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Miller complimented the Hilton atmosphere, CW thought it was backhanded compliment, then Miller egged it on by calling ISU "little brother". CW squashed it with a fan by saying he and Miller are friends and he wishes people could see their text exchanges. No beef, just banter.
This is what's annoying about social media (I see others do this on fb and twitter in my life).....if they routinely text, then why did a convo like this have to be on a social media outlet?