I think the MBB has been trying. Look at the Texas game. I just think we need to see how this season finishes.
Nope.
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I think the MBB has been trying. Look at the Texas game. I just think we need to see how this season finishes.
Perhaps instead of quitting, we should divert attention to a program with players that don't quit. Anyone remember the ISU-KSU WBB game from not long ago? I'm watching that thing online and I've never seen such an effort from a team at Iowa State in a long, long time. Those girls just showed a desire to never, ever, ever, ever, ever give up. And they prevailed in the end because of their hard fought effort. I simple do not remember the last time I've witnessed anything close from MBB.
ESPN.com - Page2 - Rules for being a true fan
"Rules for being a true fan"
Pay specific attention to #8 and #11.
"8. No hopping on and off the bandwagon during the season with the flip-flop, "I knew we were going to self-destruct! ... All right, we won six straight! ... I knew we wouldn't keep playing this well. ... I knew we would bounce back!" routine as the season drags along."
"11. Don't boo your team unless it's absolutely warranted -- like with the brutal Knicks situation this season, or if you're hoping to get a coach fired or a specific player traded or something. When you think about it, what's the purpose of booing your team? If you're trying to inspire them, usually you end up sending them into a deeper funk -- odds are, your team already knows it's struggling. And if you're trying to light a fire under a specific player, usually you end up making him even more nervous and tentative. So why boo in the first place? Trust me, dead silence sends a bigger message than anything. And it's not potentially destructive."
This is why I can give flack to people choosing not to go to the games anymore. You have to support the team through thick and thin if you consider yourself a true fan. Sure, you can voice displeasure about coaches. But don't quit on the whole team.
"Rules for being a true fan"
Pay specific attention to #8 and #11.
"8. No hopping on and off the bandwagon during the season with the flip-flop, "I knew we were going to self-destruct! ... All right, we won six straight! ... I knew we wouldn't keep playing this well. ... I knew we would bounce back!" routine as the season drags along."
"11. Don't boo your team unless it's absolutely warranted -- like with the brutal Knicks situation this season, or if you're hoping to get a coach fired or a specific player traded or something. When you think about it, what's the purpose of booing your team? If you're trying to inspire them, usually you end up sending them into a deeper funk -- odds are, your team already knows it's struggling. And if you're trying to light a fire under a specific player, usually you end up making him even more nervous and tentative. So why boo in the first place? Trust me, dead silence sends a bigger message than anything. And it's not potentially destructive."
This is why I can give flack to people choosing not to go to the games anymore. You have to support the team through thick and thin if you consider yourself a true fan. Sure, you can voice displeasure about coaches. But don't quit on the whole team.
I will still root and be disgusted with the team next year...but from my living room.
I am done with bball season tickets until I see a change.
This does not make me a fair-weather fan....just fiscally responsible.
The spring fb game cannot get here fast enough.
I am done with bball season tickets until I see a change.
This does not make me a fair-weather fan....just fiscally responsible.
The spring fb game cannot get here fast enough.
Keep it coming guys! It is hilarious to watch every person who chooses to not accept the mediocrity or lack of even being at that call out the coach and then be bashed with the same lame *** excuses of not being a true fan!!! Anonymous internet posters that probably buy the student season ticket package or just watch them on television and have nowhere near the amount of money invested as the OP. A true fan in your eyes is one who just blindly sits back and pays for the garbage because GMAC is a good man personally. Guess what? I know lots of great guys, but not many of them make $900,000 or more a year!
1TRUFAN said:
Dear Brian -
I'm not done with ISU basketball. I am and always will be a fan of my team, Iowa State. Whether they win or lose, through good or bad. I enjoy basketball, and the sense of community it brings to ISU.
Hope this helps to clarify what most people think.
-ce1
Amen! I live in Florida now but was raised in Ames for most of my life. I do not get to see a lot of ISU games on television or on the internet, but when they are on I watch the games. Lately there are many days where I don't want to watch the games because we are terrible, but yet I am still drawn to see updated scores of the ISU game when I am at they gym, at a friend's house or at work. ISU fans are always ISU fans, that never leaves us even if we say we are done with the team for good. However, like any fan, we want to see progress and success for our team. There has been none of that and that is what is pushing people over the edge. We can only be optimists for so long. Year 4 is almost halfway done and we still look like an AAU team in the Big 12. The last thing I want to say is that as an ISU fan, we have this sense of pride that we can take on anyone. We may not have the biggest budget, best players, or the best coach in the world, but we can take anyone down to the wire and sometimes beat the really good teams. That is what ISU was for many years. We are not a powerhouse, but we still were a team to be reckoned with every year. These last 3 1/2 years, that fear of us has been decimated. I want that fear back! GO CLONES!
Living out East I subscribe to the ESPN Full Court package every year with high hopes at the beginning of the season only to be disappointed year after year. This year I was especially excited being it was Coach Mac's first year with "his" team of recruits. True there has been some untimely injuries and what not but my main concern with the team seems to be discipline, respect, and loyalty to a coach and program.
