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I'm waiting for a splash commit from a linebacker. JR will use multiple groupings and there are going to be a lot of reps for linebackers under him. Linebackers will have a blast playing for him.
Theirs already 3 linebacker commits plus the returnees. I doubt we see another portal linebacker commit.
 
When I went to orientation, they had us sit in one of the Carver auditoriums and sing it over and over.

I think singing the Bells of Iowa State is a Campbell addition. I'd like to keep that one.

I'd love to get the stats on how many fans know For I, For S, Forever? Most games, I feel like 1 out of 61,500 that knows the words. When they actually play it, which has been less. Heck, how many could identify it when played? Or who wrote it?
Wow. I transferred in; I don't remember if I had orientation or if I chose to skip it. I was attending marching band practices in the summer before classes began so I already had the fight song drilled into my head as well as the alma mater. I doubt very many have "For I For S Forever" memorized or know the actual lyrics to "Don't Know the Words."
 
Campbell has been very open about how important having the financial resources at PSU are in allowing him to compete at the highest level. It's not some secret. He certainly downplays it as "it isn't everything" but he doesn't pretend like it doesn't matter, and that it isn't a massively important thing that makes the job attractive.

Man, I don't get the weird need to run cover for Campbell or players that leave ISU. They left ISU for more money. Nothing wrong with that. And there's nothing normal about fans of a team thinking everybody should root for those guys.

No legitimate college sports team's fans root for guys that leave for other schools. That's just not normal.

It's a dumb entertainment product. These guys aren't off to go battle a terminal illness or fight in a war.

They're going to play for a (indirectly) competing organization because they can make more money than our university could pay them after cashing ISUs checks for the past couple of years. It's fine, nothing wrong with that. But the dorks wringing their hands over people possibly rooting against Pedo State make no sense.

But feel free to cheer for Matt if you want. His comment about how great Paterno and how much integrity he had should make you proud to be a Pedo State and MC fan.
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Anyone worried that JR will bounce if he has success early
I think every school in the Big 12 should be worried about that with the exception of possibly BYU. Unless you have a guy that was born and raised into that school like ASU and even he might get tired of just not having the money to keep up with the P2. We will see if Tech can keep up every year with the 1 donor who is trying.
 
It's not so much the individual players as much as it is the numbers. No retention; basically burning everything to the ground and starting over at Ground Zero. No continuity of culture. The tradition of singing the fight song in the locker room after victories is probably dead. Not saying 2026 can't be competitive, but it's tough building from scratch in football. If this team manages to make it to a bowl game I'll be super happy.
CJFR: “I didn’t come here to lose.”
 
Anyone worried that JR will bounce if he has success early
Moving sucks, and this guy has moved twice now in a year.

If he is anything like the down to earth, normal dude he seems to be I’d expect he is in Ames for life after dealing with that ********.
 
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Anyone worried that JR will bounce if he has success early
We have to find resources to keep the program funded. Maybe we didn't have enough time to figure things out in time to keep Campbell, but if JFR has the same kind of success, the same pressures will be there. I really don't know how the Big 12 media deal keeps programs like ours afloat given the gap between ISU and P2 teams, but it is critically important to figure something out. It does seem like it is going to be discussed in the state legislature this year, for better or worse.