Yet again, student section fails to show up
- Thread starter cyrocksmypants
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We need a good old fashioned GTO poll.
Need some excuses that take the ownership away from how the team performed and are the same conditions for the opponent.
-No students.
-No tailgating.
-Field conditions.
-No Friday night games to get the players excited about playing.
-Empty bleachers create a weird optical illusion of wavy lines in TV shots of the stadium.
-Derecho?
-No delicious scents of the concession stands. How can someone play football without a corndog aroma floating around?
-No March Madness.
-SEZ seats empty again.
Need some excuses that take the ownership away from how the team performed and are the same conditions for the opponent.
-No students.
-No tailgating.
-Field conditions.
-No Friday night games to get the players excited about playing.
-Empty bleachers create a weird optical illusion of wavy lines in TV shots of the stadium.
-Derecho?
-No delicious scents of the concession stands. How can someone play football without a corndog aroma floating around?
-No March Madness.
-SEZ seats empty again.
I liked how no one from Iowa State showed up today.
#wereallinthistogether
#wereallinthistogether
I guess from my perspective, living outside of Iowa the last four years I'm clearly out of the loop.
CycloneErik
Well-Known Member
His comments that faculty were begging for students to be back was way beyond reality. I literally don't know a single faculty member with that attitude. I'm sure there are a few, but it's not "the faculty" as a body.
When he did his schtick about how no, absolutely no, faculty took pay cuts: That one may or may not be true, but faculty live in a much different pay world than coaches and Pollard. That one was just trying to rile people up without actual thought about the perspectives and realities there.
I'm sure he generalized. My own mother is the kind to hate on athletics in favor of the arts so I definitely understand where that comes from. My grandfather was a tenured Prof at ISU and he is the same way.
There was a lot of that throughout the podcast. None of it was challenged.
Amazingly, nobody grasped what was probably the single most important takeaway from the entire thing. Pollard admitted point blank that he manufactured the entire Stephens controversy to retaliate against the faculty. All while he rails against politics. Again...all of this went totally unchallenged.
CycloneErik
Well-Known Member
And it should be considered a pretty big deal when an AD decides to trash the faculty and the city his school exists in.
