Can confirm. My roommate also somehow knew how to turn on the lights. My group of friends had a private late night scrimmage on the field once.
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1998 - After we broke the 15 game losing streak to Iowa that afternoon a group of students went to Jace Trice Stadium to tear down the goalposts only to find they could not gain entry so they tore down the goalpost on the practice field. They carried it down Lincoln Way with the police basically providing an escort at that point and threw the goalpost into Lake Laverne.
I've heard several 3rd hand stories from a former player and some close to the program at the time about things from the Eustachy era that are crazy of some of the things that went on around that time but since I don't have 1st hand knowledge not sure its appropriate to share it. Pretty certain a lot of it is legit, especially the stories that one of his former players told me. I did have a female friend have a run in with Jamal Tinsley while in line for a bar on Welch one night. She felt someone grab her ass and when she turned around it was him and he had a smile on his face like he felt it was funny. She confronted him and asked if he thought it was appropriate to just grab someone's ass he doesn't know. He and whoever he was with then just started calling her derogatory names and walked off. Also remember after we got upset in the first round Tinsley's senior year he had a brand new Cadillac Escalade not much later that his crew drove him around campustown in.
I've heard several 3rd hand stories from a former player and some close to the program at the time about things from the Eustachy era that are crazy of some of the things that went on around that time but since I don't have 1st hand knowledge not sure its appropriate to share it. Pretty certain a lot of it is legit, especially the stories that one of his former players told me. I did have a female friend have a run in with Jamal Tinsley while in line for a bar on Welch one night. She felt someone grab her ass and when she turned around it was him and he had a smile on his face like he felt it was funny. She confronted him and asked if he thought it was appropriate to just grab someone's ass he doesn't know. He and whoever he was with then just started calling her derogatory names and walked off. Also remember after we got upset in the first round Tinsley's senior year he had a brand new Cadillac Escalade not much later that his crew drove him around campustown in.
I would love to know more about those. Maybe they can do some research for the summer project and include additional details.
Zevs Cosmos…Nudist Christian Church. What a loon
(see my response, post #28 re: Zevs Cosmos) ... Smock did come to ISU at least once that I recall, he was a separate evangelical, "Campus Ministry USA," toured college campuses, with his wife "Sister Cynthia."
More here for those interested:
Brother Jed - Wikipedia
Allen Field House - 2004
Jared Homan at the line
Misses 1st of 2 Free throws
Kansas rebounds the miss... JR Giddens makes a 3.
Officials stand around looking stupid for 5 minutes
Homan shoots 2nd FT
Iowa State loses 90-89 in OT
Jared Homan at the line
Misses 1st of 2 Free throws
Kansas rebounds the miss... JR Giddens makes a 3.
Officials stand around looking stupid for 5 minutes
Homan shoots 2nd FT
Iowa State loses 90-89 in OT
I once had a private late night scrimmage there with a girl I was dating. If we found out about this, I'm sure there were plenty of others.
Had a history class with Darren Davis that I have no idea how (well I can only assume I do probably know) he passed the course as myself and several others in the class had a hard time getting passing grades in it. He and some offensive lineman would show up about 10 minutes late most days to the lectures in the Curtis Hall Auditorium and never take out anything to take notes with. They would just sit in the upper level and take a nap most of the time. Probably just needed to make sure they were present for whoever checks to make sure athletes are attending class but I'm pretty sure if I had taken the same approach they were I would have failed miserably as the TA had even gave us some tips on what we needed to pay attention to in lecture and take notes on if we wanted to get a decent grade.
He was on Campus several times in late seventies, early eighties. Tended to draw considerable unfavorable audience participation.(see my response, post #28 re: Zevs Cosmos) ... Smock did come to ISU at least once that I recall, he was a separate evangelical, "Campus Ministry USA," toured college campuses, with his wife "Sister Cynthia."
More here for those interested:
Brother Jed - Wikipedia
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It wasn't a case of Bartles and James?
Danny Nee used to say he could keep a dead guy eligible at Nebraska.
I also heard that Tim Floyd would attend some of the classes his players took to make sure his players were showing up.
Funny thing about the Tim Floyd era, I was still in HS but had a friend who was attending ISU. He had a class with Kelvin Cato and told me he legitimately wondered if Cato could read. Also during this same time we got a new HS math teacher who was horrible and his previous job apparently was being a math tutor to the basketball team right around the time we had guys like Pratt ineligible for academic reasons. When was the last time you can remember an athlete being ineligible for academics in recent years? Used to happen a lot at multiple schools and now you never hear anything.
Remember Andy Katzenmoyer at Ohio State? It made national news as he was a high profile FB player at the time: Black Eye For The Buckeyes How Ohio State kept linebacker Andy Katzenmoyer eligible - Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com
I attended one "session," just to see it. I remember Cynthia's main pitch regarding her sordid past: "I was a disco queen."
A former Iowa State professor (now since moved on so I feel okay telling this story) told me when I was in graduate school that she used to teach football players at Penn State how to read. And I don't mean at a level appropriate for a high school graduate for college material -- I'm talking like your ABCs and sounding it out. She went to graduate school there and needed the money and, like most Penn State fans, she was part of a rabid cult that worshipped the Nittany Lions (still says JoPa "did nothing wrong"), so that was just how things worked. She told me Sue Paterno coordinated this whole thing and she was far from the only remedial tutor.
