Gonna be brutally honest here. That's an ad. We get paid to have that on there. Stuff like that is how we stay free. I made the choice to go with the Iowa State video player over the other one we used to have. We need that revenue and I figured you'd all rather see Iowa State stuff on the site than Baylor or some other Big 12 school.
I understand that ads are required to keep the site free and I definitely appreciate that it's an ISU one instead of something telling me to click the banner because I won a prize. My gripe is that it autoplays itself. Since the Cyclones.com site is all about autoplaying, I'm wagering you can't really do anything about it short of going with a different advertiser.
I'll email Jamie and tell him to stop with the autoplaying videos!