For the first time in 15 years...

For the first time in my roughly 15 years of Cyclone fandom, I turned to a different channel tonight. As a teen who was obsessed with ISU sports I would still love to come home and love watch Craig Brackins and crew lose on a Wednesday night. I suffered through the Chizik and McDermott eras, watched us lose 77-7 to Baylor in football and get smacked countless other time. I still watched every second I could because I loved it. I’m the guy who stays until the last second because I want to see what the reserves look like and what the future holds.

Maybe it’s just me getting older, but this isn’t even fun to watch.
It wasn't as bad on the radio! :p I cannot even imagine the horror of streaming that bad boy! The only good news is that being an ESPN App game severely limited the number of people who had to watch that horror show.
 
Should have watched those Walden years. Crowd would go crazy because we would finally get a first down halfway through the second already down 28.

I AGREE.....I was in JTS for every Jim Walden home game and every game the cyclones played at Mizzou and Kansas........I also agree it was BAD with a capital B.................
 
It wasn't as bad on the radio! :p I cannot even imagine the horror of streaming that bad boy! The only good news is that being an ESPN App game severely limited the number of people who had to watch that horror show.


I'm with you alacyclone.....I just knew in my heart of hearts that KU would bury us inside Hilton...why you ask...because a good friend of mine went to KU and told me so that's why .... KU was more than motivated after losing to us in the Sprint Center.....It was just one more reason "NOT TO PAY FOR ESPN+"...
 
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I'm excited for the future of ISU sports and think there are better days ahead, but I have to admit I'm burnt out. I'm not sure if it's the negativity on social media, lack of winning the "big games", lack of consistency, or combination of all. I think ISU sports needs to get over the hump for this fanbase in either football or basketball, just need a pick me up.
 
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I'm excited for the future of ISU sports and think there are better days ahead, but I have to admit I'm burnt out. I'm not sure if it's the negativity on social media, lack of winning the "big games", lack of consistency, or combination of all. I think ISU sports needs to get over the hump for this fanbase in either football or basketball, just need a pick me up.

Please don’t compare football to the absolute disaster that is men’s b-ball right now. You’re comparing Three Mile Island to Chernobyl
 
For the first time in my roughly 15 years of Cyclone fandom, I turned to a different channel tonight. As a teen who was obsessed with ISU sports I would still love to come home and love watch Craig Brackins and crew lose on a Wednesday night. I suffered through the Chizik and McDermott eras, watched us lose 77-7 to Baylor in football and get smacked countless other time. I still watched every second I could because I loved it. I’m the guy who stays until the last second because I want to see what the reserves look like and what the future holds.

Maybe it’s just me getting older, but this isn’t even fun to watch.

Yeah, it's getting older. Trust me, watching those teams in the late 2000s was not fun to watch either. You were just a young dumb teenager with time on your hands and blind youthful optimism that it was going to get better soon. Welcome to adulthood and the pessimism that goes along with it. I know a lot of people on here are whining and crying like this is the worst period of ISU basketball ever. They either don't have a memory that goes back more than a decade or have very selective memories.
 
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Please don’t compare football to the absolute disaster that is men’s b-ball right now. You’re comparing Three Mile Island to Chernobyl
I'm not comparing them, but if I did bball has done far more for ISU over the last 10 years than football over its 100+ years. Football has 4 trophies since it started in 1800's.
 
For the first time in my roughly 15 years of Cyclone fandom, I turned to a different channel tonight. As a teen who was obsessed with ISU sports I would still love to come home and love watch Craig Brackins and crew lose on a Wednesday night. I suffered through the Chizik and McDermott eras, watched us lose 77-7 to Baylor in football and get smacked countless other time. I still watched every second I could because I loved it. I’m the guy who stays until the last second because I want to see what the reserves look like and what the future holds.

Maybe it’s just me getting older, but this isn’t even fun to watch.

yes bad, but you realize we were bad 05-10, right?

lol.
 
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I know a lot of people on here are whining and crying like this is the worst period of ISU basketball ever. They either don't have a memory that goes back more than a decade or have very selective memories.
It isn’t selective memory to say we’ve never had such a slide.

The whining and crying is driven by the context of an all-time best run, with all the fervor that comes with, being so quickly followed by bad play, and arguably near all-time lows like the FAMU loss, has never happened.

That, and it’s also whining and crying like there’s not a lot of reason to think it’ll get better under this staff.
 
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It isn’t selective memory to say we’ve never had such a slide.

The whining and crying is driven by the context of an all-time best run, with all the fervor that comes with, being so quickly followed by bad play, and arguably near all-time lows like the FAMU loss, has never happened.

That, and it’s also whining and crying like there’s not a lot of reason to think it’ll get better under this staff.
Oh really, never had such a slide? Like going from back to back regular season conference championships to 1 tournament appearance in a decade isn't as bad as this? Hell, if you want to talk about a one year slide we went from a conference championship year to a 12-19 year. Your post is exactly the type of crap I'm talking about.
 
I AGREE.....I was in JTS for every Jim Walden home game and every game the cyclones played at Mizzou and Kansas........I also agree it was BAD with a capital B.................

Yes, and even back to the Donnie Duncan era - his teams would always fade away about half way through the season.
 
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At least Walden had Blaise Bryant and the one year the team went 6 - 6.

It is only mid January and probably won't watch another game this year. Prohm is not a good head coach. He can be a good recruiter and would make a good assistant.

Is it too early to ask Niang to be our coach? At least he has some heart.
 
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