Fun memory. 1st regular season D1 OT Game I believe as wellUntil McCarney chooses the end of the field after we win the coin toss in overtime.
Granted that some things are out of his control, I have to believe JP might be working some magic behind the scenes to advocate for us not to go back to Memphis.
He has been awesome. Kentucky lost their starter and backup, and converted him from WR and said: "We are going to run and win!" I respect that very much, and I personally think a player being able to do that deserves individual recognition.
I'd love to see an ISU vs. Kentucky Liberty Bowl, and Big Blue Nation travels for football too. It would be a sold out, exciting crowd. They can drink too, but they prefer their bourbon!
Oh, you mean the one where we beat Alabama with a last second field goal? (I refuse to acknowledge remembering it any other way. BS ending.)Liberty vs an SEC team is interesting.
When was the last time we even played an SEC team? The Yelk game?
One of espn guys had Texas in the cheezit bowl.
Great idea!This is my annual petition that the bowl game organizers agree to drop their conference affiliations and institute a bowl game draft with selection order determined by game payout.
You would get better match ups, viewers and fan support which is what they say they are all about. Over time there would be more upward pressure on payouts(benefitting conference bottom line) as well as some of the games that have no purpose would naturally wither on the vine.
The lube makers have a football team?If this happens, it would be sooooo Iowa Stateish for that KY quarterback to become Drew Brees incarnate and throw for a Liberty Bowl record yards and td's.
We eventually will play Houston in the Houston Bowl now.Iowa State is the only Big 12 school to hit this trifecta of unappealing bowl locations/matchups: Boise State in Boise, Rutgers in Yankee Stadium, and Memphis in Memphis.
If there is any justice, we won't get another one of these dog **** games for a very long time.
One of the positives about Memphis last time was staying at the Peabody. But since it is NYE this year for game day, just called and Peabody is already sold out.
This is my annual petition that the bowl game organizers agree to drop their conference affiliations and institute a bowl game draft with selection order determined by game payout.
You would get better match ups, viewers and fan support which is what they say they are all about. Over time there would be more upward pressure on payouts(benefitting conference bottom line) as well as some of the games that have no purpose would naturally wither on the vine.
That's a pretty truthful way of looking at it but when you carry street cred like ISU does and have most people staying for 3-4 nights in Memphis or San Antonio, the cities will make a lot more money than choosing Tenn or Texas.I mostly agree with the idea but if you don't think Bowl Committees would favor the teams in the south, you're outta your mind. 75% of the bowl games are in the South East. So it would just give way more accolades to SEC and ACC teams.
That's a pretty truthful way of looking at it but when you carry street cred like ISU does and have most people staying for 3-4 nights in Memphis or San Antonio, the cities will make a lot more money than choosing Tenn or Texas.
That's a pretty truthful way of looking at it but when you carry street cred like ISU does and have most people staying for 3-4 nights in Memphis or San Antonio, the cities will make a lot more money than choosing Tenn or Texas.
We eventually will play Houston in the Houston Bowl now.
I guess I assumed most of the TV ads were sold much more in advance of 3ish weeks before the bowl game. I get that Texas would obviously have more TV viewers than ISU but ISU would have a much larger local economic impact in San Antonionot on TV ads they won’t. Most are only marginally interested in actual attendance and keenly interested in ad buys on TV.
I guess I assumed most of the TV ads were sold much more in advance of 3ish weeks before the bowl game. I get that Texas would obviously have more TV viewers than ISU but ISU would have a much larger local economic impact in San Antonio