LOL. Texas and TAMU still obsess over each other as much as before conference realignment.
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LOL. Texas and TAMU still obsess over each other as much as before conference realignment.
This is almost as bad as the shirts they made after the TCU win. Not quite as bad, but still....
Unlike some of you, maybe the athletic department is not obsessed with your little friends to the east and was not thinking about them at all when they made this tweet.
Then why post it? What are they trying to imply?
"Hey everyone.... we're Iowa State.... we just had a 3-9 season, but yet, we're going to have our associate AD tweet that making a New Year's bowl is really no big deal anymore."
Do you realize how stupid that sounds? C'mon. It's stinks of sour grapes BIG time. As some have already said on here, if we were playing in a New Year's bowl, there would be all kinds of tweets out of the ISU AD office about how we've done something that no other ISU team has ever done and what a great accomplishment it is.
This is just stupid, and I have no idea why anyone would think it was a good idea?
We technically made the third round last year so I dont think Cyclone fans would have cared.
I agree that I wasn't a big fan of the tweet... then I read Malchow's blog post that was noted in the tweet and it put his comment in perspective:
http://2minuteto.wordpress.com/2013...-its-not-the-same-achievement-as-it-once-was/
http://2minuteto.wordpress.com/2013...-its-not-the-same-achievement-as-it-once-was/
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Kind of the same thing, because making the 3rd round now, is not the same as when there were 64 teams.
If some other school, that didn't make the tournament at all, posted "Making it to the 3rd round of the tournament does not mean as much as it used to," this place would blow up, especially if it was Iowa saying it.
Congrats. You may have been the first person in this thread who read beyond the tweet.
Yeah, but the Iowa AD didn't send out a tweet trying to downplay playing in the Liberty Bowl against a CUSA team, much less a pretty big non-BCS bowl.
Still trying to figure out which poster on here has access to the ISU twitter account. This is classic.
Couldn't agree more. The measure of success for the program is the Big XII record. I could care less what Iowa is doing in January. I'd probably get way more excited about a win over Texas, K State or Oklahoma than one over the Hoks. I suspect many in IC would say the same thing about beating Ohio State and Michigan versus beating us. I don't live in Iowa and don't have to put up with the black and gold, so I don't feel the day to day intensity of the rivalry. Still, I don't like the implication of the tweet (even after having read the blog post).
Don't like it either.
"70 teams will play in bowls this December and January. Not making one is a lot harder than it used to be."
The funny thing is we would KILL to be able to even beat the bottom 3-4 teams in our conference. Especially considering we're ALWAYS one of them.
Why can't ISU put up billboards in Cedar Rapids? Iowa has multiple billboards in Des Moines.
Bolded for truth. UT and aTm could care less about each other. There is a lot of animosity and jealousy between them. However, the next sentence is just a big fail on your part.
I can see both sides of the tweet. First it is a fact that the January bowls don't mean quite what they used to. That's not a jab at Iowa but ISU not making a bowl game this year makes it look like sour grapes. I can easily understand that can be fodder for Iowa fans and rightfully so.
I've wondered about January bowls and the history of the B8/12 vs B10. Historically the Big 10 has had more schools in the conference, so there might be a better shot at those teams making bowl games.
With the amount of the bowl games it also seems like the B10 has more scheduled for New Years than the B8/B12. Maybe I'm missing something but it just seems like B12 has Cotton, BCS (usually Fiesta) and the B10 has Cap1, Outback, Gator, BCS (usually Rose) for New Years Day games. So does the "playing on Jan bowl" argument that Iowa fans really matter if they are in 4th or 5th place in the B10? It just seems like the B10 tie in for January Bowls has always been greater than the B12.
I've wondered about January bowls and the history of the B8/12 vs B10. Historically the Big 10 has had more schools in the conference, so there might be a better shot at those teams making bowl games.
With the amount of the bowl games it also seems like the B10 has more scheduled for New Years than the B8/B12. Maybe I'm missing something but it just seems like B12 has Cotton, BCS (usually Fiesta) and the B10 has Cap1, Outback, Gator, BCS (usually Rose) for New Years Day games. So does the "playing on Jan bowl" argument that Iowa fans really matter if they are in 4th or 5th place in the B10? It just seems like the B10 tie in for January Bowls has always been greater than the B12.
