La Brea

I'm about ready to throw in the towel on this turd. It's the second season of the show and I know it was a weird show to begin with, but it's just gotten even weirder and hard to follow. We've got different people from our group scattered over different centuries with no idea where they are or, in some cases, who they are, because they come "back" to the main group in 10,000 BC much older than when they left. It seems like it's so easy to come and go from La Brea in 10,000 BC that the show should last half an hour. Fall through the sink hole, find the exit and we're done. And who knew falling through a sinkhole wouldn't kill you, but would instead land you in 10,000 BC? Just weird.

The only reason I started watching it in the first place is that Natalie Zea was in it and I've enjoyed some other things she was in, like The Unicorn, Justified and The Detour.

Big 12 WBB Preseason Awards


Joens is preseason POY.

Joens (unanimous), Ryan, and Donarski are preseason 1st team.

What's the problem with offense besides Tom Manning?

I can't help but think that Joel Gordon becoming the QB coach and passing game coordinator has stunted our QB growth.

Timeline:

2008-2010: Gordon was the offensive coordinator at Emory & Henry a Division 3 school in Virginia. He worked along side Tom Manning was was an offensive line coach at the school in 2008.

2011-2015: Spent 5 seasons at his alma mater Shepherd (W.V>) University as Quarterbacks and Receivers coach.

2016-2017: Asked by Matt Campbell to assist as an Offensive Analyst

2018: Quarterbacks Coach

2019: Passing Game Coordinator/Quarterbacks coach.


Most of his listed accomplishments include Brock Purdy breaking all of the school records at ISU. But doesn't anyone else think that Purdy actually got worse or stagnant under his tutelage?
Purdy leaves ISU and gets an independent quarterbacks coach, all of a sudden he looks like an NFL quarterback.
We don't seem to have any development with our quarterbacks and they seem to become stagnant or get worse over their time here.
Discuss.

RIP Loretta Lynn

NASHVILLE — Loretta Lynn, the country singer whose plucky songs and inspiring life story made her one of the most beloved American musical performers of her generation, died on Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. She was 90.

Her family said in a statement that she died in her sleep at her ranch, which had turned Hurricane Mills, about 70 miles west of Nashville, into a tourist destination.

Ms. Lynn built her stardom not only on her music, but also on her image as a symbol of rural pride and determination. Her story was carved out of Kentucky coal country, from hardscrabble beginnings in Butcher Hollow (which her songs made famous as Butcher Holler). She became a wife at 15, a mother at 16 and a grandmother in her early 30s, married to a womanizing sometime bootlegger who managed her to stardom. That story made her autobiography, “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” a best seller and the grist for an Oscar-winning movie adaptation of the same name.



Redshirt / Participation update (through Week 9)

According to (https://cyclones.com/sports/football/stats) here is where our players that have never used a redshirt stand on participation: (this is through 9 games [post WVU])

Freshmen (5+ games played, cannot redshirt)
- Jeremiah Cooper DB (9 played, 7 starts)
- Will McLaughlin LB (9 played, 2 starts)
- Domonique Orange DL (9 played)
- Jace Gilbert K (9 played)
- Tyler Perkins P (9 played)
- Cartevious Norton (5 played)

Soph/Jrs (5+ games, cannot redshirt)
- Myles Purchase (9 played, 9 starts)
- TJ Tampa (9 played, 9 starts)
- Beau Freyler (8 played, 8 starts)
- Jaylin Noel (9 played, 6 starts)
- Mason Chambers (9 played, 1 start)
- Joey Petersen (9 played)
- Deon Silas (8 played)
- Treyvon McGee (7 played)

Freshmen (less than 5 games played)
- Greg Gaines WR (4)
- Trevon Howard DB (3)
- Rocco Becht QB (2)
- Gabe Burkle TE (2)
- Jacob Imming LB (2)
- Jason Essex WR (1)
- Carson Willich LB (1)
- Myles Norwood DB (1)

Soph/Jrs (less than 5 games, still could redshirt)
- Blake Thompson (3)
- James Neal (2)
- Jacob Ellis (1)

Losses by 8+ Last 20 Years

I realize losing close is frustrating but have to remember where we came from. 8 losses by more than a TD the last 6 seasons and only 3 of those by more than 10 points. Just need this young team to get out of their own way. Some painful perspective here but outside of '04/'05 when ISU avoided OU and Texas, the demolition days are over.

Campbell
2022:
2021: Iowa 27-17
2020: Louisiana 31-14
2019: KSU 27-17; Notre Dame 33-9
2018: Iowa 13-3; Oklahoma 37-27; Texas 24-10
2017: Texas 17-7
2016: Iowa 42-3; TCU 41-20; Texas 27-6; Oklahoma 34-24; WVU 49-19

Rhoads
2015: Iowa 31-17; TTU 66-1; TCU 45-21; Baylor 45-27; Oklahoma 52-16; WVU 30-6
2014: NDSU 34-14; Baylor 49-28; OSU 37-20; Oklahoma 59-14; Kansas 34-14; WVU 37-24; TCU 55-3
2013: UNI 28-20; Baylor 71-7; OSU 58-27; KSU 41-7; Oklahoma 48-10
2012: TTU 24-13; OSU 31-10; Oklahoma 35-20; Texas 33-7; Tulsa 31-17
2011: Texas 37-14; Baylor 49-26; Missouri 52-17; TA&M 33-17; OU 26-6; Rutgers 27-13
2010: Iowa 35-7; Utah 68-27; Oklahoma 52-0; Colorado 34-14; Mizzou 14-0
2009: Iowa 35-3; TA&M 35-10; OSU 34-8; Mizzou 34-24

Chizek
2008: Iowa 17-5; Baylor 38-10; Nebraska 35-7; TA&M 49-35; OSU 59-17; Mizzou 52-20; KSU 38-30
2007: Kent St 23-14; UNI 24-13; Nebraska 35-17; TA&M 42-17; Texas 56-3; Oklahoma 17-7; Mizzou 42-28; Kansas 45-7

McCarney:
2006: Iowa 27-17; Texas 37-14; Nebraska 28-14; Oklahoma 34-9; TTU 42-26; KSU 31-10; Kansas 41-10; Colorado 33-16
2005: Baylor 23-13
2004: OSU 36-7; TA&M 34-3
2003: Iowa 40-21; NIU 24-16; Oklahoma 53-7; TTU 52-21; Texas 40-19; Nebraska 28-0; KSU 45-0; Colorado 44-10; Kansas 36-7; Mizzou 45-7

Fall Foliage Trip Suggestions - IA, MN, or WI

Family has some time off the week of Oct. 16-22. We'd like to head a little north from the DSM area to see some Fall Foliage.

Per the national foliage map, it would be peak at that time in NE Iowa, SE Minnesota, and SW Wisconsin.

What are some national/state parks, cool outdoor locations we should consider for a 2 or 3 day trip in that area you might recommend? Wife, myself, and 2 Jr. High age boys. We are OK with some limited hiking (a mile or two) & climbing, but we're not master outdoorsmen. We're staying in motels! ;) We'd like to stay within a 6 or so hour drive of Des Moines.

Also, if you had general recommendations of places the boys might like in that area, I'd take those suggestions, too!

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(The area circled would be the best bet for that week)

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