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Thought I'd start a thread for things not ISU team so our general Cyclone season thread doesn't get sidetracked. I know there are a couple of fans that watch outside of our team.

Looking at future opponents.

The Jennie B. Sooners are 6-1 and beat #9 Oregon and Minnesota in a neutral court setting to win a tourney in the Bahamas. Play Mississippi State in the Big 12/SEC thingies on Saturday. Miss State is not ranked. Was just a few years back they were 37-2 and in the champ game against ND. Vic Schaefer leaving and his replacement resigning after just a year seems to have left them as a middling SEC team.

Iowa, after missing three games against quality opponents due to their COVID hiatus, got thumped at Duke last night. They didn't win a single quarter. Clark, a career 41% from three, was 1-13. They play Michigan State at IC on Sunday before coming to Ames. Haven't seen them play but so far they don't seem to be playing even close to their level of last year.

I feel pretty good with having signed Sonny Gray at the top, along with Lynn and Gibson to stabilize the rotation. Matter of fact, I’m more wary of Mikolas and Matz than those three.

And sorting out the outfield seems to have helped, though there are still some moving parts amongst the youngsters. Just how good will Gorman, Wynn and Walker be? How much does Goldy have left in the tank?

Oh, apparently Jordan Walker put on more muscle in the offseason.

At the very least, I think this roster is a whole bunch more fundamentally stable than a year ago. Guess we’ll see.

How about you folks?

McLaren already showed off their livery for '24, and we're just a couple weeks out from everyone doing their reveals so I guess it's time to start a new thread.

FS: ISU OU Wednesday 7PM

3 Johnny's wristbands - $50/per
1 C3 Parking pass - $25

Hardcopy so will need to meet in Ankeny prior

PM with interest

How good is the Big 12, really? We are nearing March Madness and getting close to the end.

I was just looking at the Top 25, and wondering why certain teams are ranked where they are. Many of you know quite a bit about rankings, ratings.

But why, for example, when looking at current 19-8 overall record teams such as Texas Tech, BYU, TCU, Oklahoma of the Big 12, and Alabama and Kentucky of the SEC, are the SEC teams ranked higher? They have better conference records, may be part of it? They have better ranked players (perceived)?

How will the teams of the Big 12, the meatgrinder that it is, fare in the NCAA seedings and brackets? How many teams will we get in? How many make the final 16, 8, 4?

Where Iowa State might turn to find a replacement for its vacant offensive coordinator position:

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AP Preseason Top 25 Poll released today. 4 Big 12 teams in it:

The one catch all tread for Iowa State's Class of 2024 Recruiting Visits, Rumors, Offers, Interests and Potential Targets.

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Finally have someone higher than level 1, so I'll get this thread started.

Let me know if there are any corrections needed.

Rankings:
ES -- ESPN 2027 Watch List -- 25 players (retrieved 1/4/2024)
PN -- Prospects Nation Elite 150 Watch List -- 11 players (retrieved 1/4/2024)


Verbals:

Remaining Scholarships: too early to tell


Potential Targets:
Level:
3 -- definite mutual interest
2 -- likely mutual interest
1 -- possible mutual interest
--Sorted by level, then date added--
LEVELS ARE BASED ENTIRELY ON SOCIAL MEDIA FACTORS AND THEREFORE MAY UNDERSTATE OR OVERSTATE ACTUAL INTEREST

Formerly on the list:

The Cyclone FB Twitter account is great and is always putting out good stuff. I figured we could have a thread dedicated to it instead of bumping old ones

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Might have to be the final straw in this thing. Wake Forest fans absolutely took out duke players and Kyle Filipowski looks like he suffered a knee or ankle injury. So stupid.
Outlaw it

Like the football twitter thread, so figured I will start one for the wrestling program. Cool video on the freshmen and their go-to takedowns.

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Looking for 2 lowers to Men's game vs. BYU on March 6.

We're far enough into the season that it's time to start posting some of the records that might be broken this season. I'll post some select stats below.

UPDATED 2/26/2024

So, I'll be going to New Orleans in mid-April, purely to be a tourist and check out an old city I've never been to before.

Any tips or hints on things to see and do and places to eat?

I plan to stay in the Central Business District; close enough to walk to the French Quarter, but not right inside either where I would have to deal with the noise.

I'll be there for about three and a half days and four nights.

I already plan to check out the World War II museum and probably the zoo as well. I also think it would be fun to do a ghost tour at nighttime, but that's as far as I've thought ahead.

Thanks in advance!

Have 4 in Section 231 Row 13 - Sideline across from the ISU bench

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I'm looking to buy 5 tix for the Oklahoma game. Don't really care where they are. Just looking for some reasonable tix for whole family with young kids to go to the game. PM me if you have something.

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TV: ESPN2
Talent: Lowell Galindo, pxp, Jess Settles, analyst

Radio: Cyclone Radio Network (Varsity Network)
CRN Talent: John Walters (pxp); Eric Heft (analyst)

Picked some up at Hy Vee yesterday. Thought it had a little PBR vibe/flavor. I was expecting more of a Budweiser taste to appeal to the masses. $26 for two six packs after taxes and deposit.

I'm a big Black Sabbath fan and my favorite Sabbath LP is Vol 4.

I'm of the age where I grew up consuming records as a complete work of art... so listening to all of it as one composition.

Side one, track four ("FX") is just someone(s) fooling around with sound effects. It breaks up what otherwise is a brilliant album that's the closest Sabbath got to creating a cohesive narrative concept album. I've even heard it called "Prog Sabbath".

What's a record you have that you love except for that one song...?