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Why do I hate the Hawks so much?

FOREVERTRUE said:
We NEED to win on Friday because if we don't we won't hear the end of it, since either the ****** ass Hawks or the program that has sucked for so long until they got our former coach (that didn't make it past the sweet 16 with us) will go farther than us.
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It could be worse. They could beat us for the championship. I may have to move out of country.
 
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Man, some of you need to be more selective on the people you surround yourself with. Where are you interacting with all these annoying Iowa fans? The ones in my life are all pretty tolerable. We flip each other some **** but they are nice, normal people.

Stay off the comments pages. Avoid the burners. Listen to music in your cars. It cannot be that hard.
 
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Clonefan32 said:
Man, some of you need to be more selective on the people you surround yourself with. Where are you interacting with all these annoying Iowa fans? The ones in my life are all pretty tolerable. We flip each other some **** but they are nice, normal people.

Stay off the comments pages. Avoid the burners. Listen to music in your cars. It cannot be that hard.
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iowastatefan1929 said:
Because you have hate inside you and its the past of least resistance.
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Past of least resistance. I argue it is the future of nonresistance. Alternatively it could be the path of least resistance.
 
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BobTheHawkHater said:
Such a different environment back in the 80's in the Jim Criner football era when I was at ISU ... we were basically never on TV for any sports that I can remember, but it seemed like every Iowa game was on. All of the local news sports broadcasts were all about Iowa. This bred a whole generation of Hawkeye bandwagon jumpers that never went to school there. Every year, Iowa would come in and pound us mercilessly in football and the stands would just be full of annoying Hawkeye fans. It was real easy to grow to hate them.
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We were on TV when we played Iowa and Nebraska and that was about it.
 
1SEIACLONE said:
The 80s was the low point in the program for ISU and the series in general. Criner ran the program into the ground, basically stopped recruiting instate kids that the Squawks wanted, and they were pounding us on the field. Fry made a living hammering, ISU, Wisconsin and Northwestern, just killing them year after year.
Once Mac took over and he finally ended the streak, EIU fans started saying "it took a former Iowa coach for the winning streak to stop." Their fan base has a unique way of rubbing salt in the wounds of ISU while staying above it all when they commit infractions.
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Duncan started digging the hole for criner
 
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BooneCy said:
Kind of the same as others on here. Growing up, every ******* I knew was a Hawkeye fan. There were more of them, so not surprising there would be some bad eggs in the group.

I rooted for the underdog to win. The more mean the Hawkeye fans were to Iowa State fans the more I wanted them to lose. Now that we are the dominate program, I care less about what they are doing.

The lesson: Don’t be an *******. It causes more problems then you will ever realize.
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Pretty much my experience and reason for hating them also. Grew up in a small eastern Iowa town where Cyclone fans were outnumbered at least 30 to 1. I actually didn't hate Iowa until I saw the complex many of them have for anything Iowa State. I rooted for them for the last time in the 2006 NCAA Tournament when they were upset as a 3 seed in the first round. Hometown hero Greg Brunner was a hawk so I kind of liked that Iowa team. Even then, however when the final horn sounded and they were on the wrong end, I thought back to how ruthless Iowa fans from school were to me for the Hampton incident a few years prior. I felt an evil smile start to creep across my face and I knew from that point on it was over for me and Iowa.

Shout out to Greg though!
 
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MeanDean said:
Shouldn't they leave it natural? It's one of their school colors.

Show some school pride in your hok a$$hole!
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Nope, direct from the urban dictionary

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It's always the fans #1, but let's not forget that a culture of arrogance, entitlement,v and smugness exists over there, and it's been developed over time by Hayden Fry, Kirk Ferentz, Steve Alford, Fran McCaffrey and all of their countless assistants and players over the years. McCollum seems to be following suit already as well.
 
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pourcyne said:
Um, whut? James Fenimore Cooper was born in New Jersey and died in New York State. It is unlikely he ever set foot in Iowa, which was a state during only the last five years of his life.

We are known as the Hawkeye state because of Chief Black Hawk.

Eastern Iowa U are known as the Crybaby Wussies because they are.
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Straight from the Iowa website: https://licensing.uiowa.edu/traditions

“The University of Iowa borrowed its athletic nickname from the state of Iowa many years ago. The name Hawkeye was originally applied to a hero in a fictional novel, The Last of the Mohicans, written by James Fenimore Cooper. Cooper had the Delaware Indians bestow the name on a white scout who lived and hunted with them.

In 1838, 12 years after the book was published, people in the territory of Iowa acquired the nickname, chiefly through the efforts of Judge David Rorer of Burlington and James G. Edwards of Fort Madison. Edwards, editor of the Fort Madison Patriot, moved his newspaper to Burlington in 1843 and renamed it the Burlington Hawkeye. The two men continued their campaign to popularize the name and were rewarded when territorial officials gave it their formal approval.
 
Cyinthenorth said:
It's always the fans #1, but let's not forget that a culture of arrogance, entitlement,v and smugness exists over there, and it's been developed over time by Hayden Fry, Kirk Ferentz, Steve Alford, Fran McCaffrey and all of their countless assistants and players over the years. McCollum seems to be following suit already as well.
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Don't forget to throw in their wrestling fans.... they are in a whole other world.
 
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Cycho1 said:
Straight from the Iowa website: https://licensing.uiowa.edu/traditions

“The University of Iowa borrowed its athletic nickname from the state of Iowa many years ago. The name Hawkeye was originally applied to a hero in a fictional novel, The Last of the Mohicans, written by James Fenimore Cooper. Cooper had the Delaware Indians bestow the name on a white scout who lived and hunted with them.

In 1838, 12 years after the book was published, people in the territory of Iowa acquired the nickname, chiefly through the efforts of Judge David Rorer of Burlington and James G. Edwards of Fort Madison. Edwards, editor of the Fort Madison Patriot, moved his newspaper to Burlington in 1843 and renamed it the Burlington Hawkeye. The two men continued their campaign to popularize the name and were rewarded when territorial officials gave it their formal approval.
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Yes, but your original message said that the author of The Last of the Mohicans was from Iowa. He wuzn't.
 
Why do I hate the hoks so much? Jeez, where do I start? The (unearned) entitlement, the arrogance, the superiority complex, the blinders, the fair-weather fandom, the complete ignorance of reality, coaches like Steve Alfraud blindly defending a player like Pierce... And I say all this as someone who grew up an Iowa fan and WENT there for a year (discovering on day one that I'd made a huge mistake). After being in IC, then leaving for ISU, my eyes really opened to just how awful so many in that fanbase are. Not once did I ever engage with and ISU fan in a negative way when I was part of that fandom. I didn't see any reason to. But I have absolutely done that to THEM since.
 
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I went to a couple ISU golf outings and tour stops several times. My boss at the time an ISU grad said "Why do you go to those, you didn't go to school there" ? He is an ISU grad and a structural engineer. But we always talked ISU sports. He is a pompus ass and as far as I know never had season tickets nor attended a fundraiser. So they are everywhere on both sides. Call me a Tavern Clone see if I care. I should change my screen name to Tavern Clone.
 
Cyinthenorth said:
It's always the fans #1, but let's not forget that a culture of arrogance, entitlement,v and smugness exists over there, and it's been developed over time by Hayden Fry, Kirk Ferentz, Steve Alford, Fran McCaffrey and all of their countless assistants and players over the years. McCollum seems to be following suit already as well.
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LONG before them. It goes back to Hancher vs Hilton in the 50s and 60s. Hint: Hancher was the arrogant prick who tried to get Iowa State reclassified as U of Iowa-Ames under Iowa City control.

I bought this but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

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