AMES – The Cyclones are a two-touchdown favorite in a Big 12 game. The Big 12 is bananas. Oh, and it’s time to seriously start thinking about basketball.Read about all of that and more today in Monday Musings.1 – Iowa State should be a two-touchdown (and change) favorite...
AMES --- Evaluating any season opening victory is preposterously difficult for an over-thinking hack like myself. This is especially the case in the sport of college football, where fans and media alike spend a lengthy seven month offseason dissecting rosters,...
AMES --- In advance to Saturday night's season opener against UNI, Iowa State released a very underwhelming depth chart on Monday morning. In fact, it was almost identical to what Paul Rhoads showed the media in Dallas back in July. Some advice: Chalk down wh...
AMES --- Last Spring, Paul Rhoads called Pierre Aka into his office and told the soon to be junior that the Iowa State coaching staff was considering moving him to the offensive line.Aka wasn’t pleased. He saw this potential move as a demotion.“I think that was...
AMES — Demond Tucker knows what’s expected of him. Big plays — and lots of them. A tall order for a shorter-than-average 6-foot, 287-pound defensive tackle? Not to Tucker. “I have a little bit more work to do,” conceded the 2013 NJCAA Defensive Pla...
AMES — I, like you, want to see quarterback Sam Richardson connect with Allen Lazard for a deep touchdown. I’m also eager to watch Nigel Tribune tighten his grip on lockdown mode. Oh, and I’d like to see MIKE linebacker Jordan Harris show why he�...
AMES — Demond Tucker’s never been shy about shooting for the stars. It simply doesn’t matter that being tagged as “undersized” forced his game underground — off the radar for a number of highly successful college football programs largely because he’s...
AMES — A smile crossed Demond Tucker’s face at the mere mention of his pal, Jordan Harris. The two highly-touted junior college prospects and former teammates at Copiah-Lincoln (Miss.) Community College rekindled a chemistry-based bond as soon as Tucker, a defe...
The month of March is here! Can you feel the madness?Of course, that means that spring football has finally arrived! All sarcasm aside, everybody reading this (unless you’re one of the many Hawk trolls who visits our outstanding site on a daily basis) is a...
AMES — The quest for taller defensive backs continues for Iowa State. “We’re still not quite there,” Cyclone coach Paul Rhoads said on Wednesday’s National Signing Day. But when 6-foot-plus size isn’t found, ISU’s staff sniffs out elite speed...
