Williams & Blum: Is it over?

[cyclones500]

Neat story about Conditt clutching the trophy and not letting go of it.

 

[heitclone]

If you've got kids of a certain age, particularly those first couple years of elementary, it's almost literally nonstop. My kids are two years apart and when the younger one hit preschool age and the older was in kindergarten and first grade, we went through six straight months of illness in our house. And then they get older and it just vanishes but for the occasional cold.

Throw in all the weird, out-of-season illnesses thanks to Covid and masking last winter and I'm sure it's just a mess out there for young kids.

This. Our kids are a bit younger but in the last 2 months we've had stomach bugs and some nasty colds burn through daycare, like every kid and their parents are getting it type of stuff. We haven't gone a week w/o someone sick since Sept. My wife is an NP and sees tons of non covid, strep and RSV stuff all the time, it's wild out there right now.

 

[Omaha Cy]

I disagree with @brentblum on the point of whether ISU would go back to the dark ages similar to losing Earle Bruce in a post Campbell era.

I blame the AD/administration for seemingly neglecting everything about the football program through the 80s and part of the 90s.

ISU could easily make a bad hire or 2 to plow through 7-8 bad years. So much has changed in Ames with having facilities on par with most in D1 football. I believe it’s going to be harder to fail going forward.