What are your predictions and what do you need to see from the Clones?

Heading to Oklahoma to watch the Clones. Any suggestions on nice hotel near stadium and bars for best game day experience much appreciated. Assuming ISU football team stays in Oklahoma City which is an option too. Thx in advance.

SOLD

4 tickets in Section 30 Row 24 Seats 12-15 with seatbacks and a D4 parking pass for $400 for all. Prefer to sell together but will separate. Parking pass only $125. All 4 Tickets only $300. Pair of tickets $150. Transfer via Ticketmaster. Venmo payment.

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Vet med lot.....TCU game $75.....or last 3 games $200.....email me at [email protected] or text me at 319-631-3012 to set up the transfer

Looking to buy a B1 parking pass for the TCU game as we have extra friends joining us.

The following attachment looks at ISU's & their opponents points per game average since 1987. Initially it to take a deeper dive to see just how inept our offense has been compared to our history, and on the flip side, how much stronger our defense has been. Obviously one of the first things I've noticed is while our offensive ppg is obviously sh*t, historically it could be and has been much worse. Second thing I'd like point out is we might be the only power 5 team to actually be currently averaging more offensive ppg & less opponent ppg vs conference foes compared to the non-con. I'm sure it change as we start facing off against the tougher members of the Big 12, but still surprising nonetheless. Third thing is Campbell still has the highest offensive ppg average and lowest opponent ppg average of any of the 4 previous head coaches (not particularly a high bar all things considered). So as we get ready to stare down the Sooners I'd like everyone to remember just how bad we used to play in this game vs since Campbell came to ISU:

Record against Oklahoma prior to Campbell
5-72-2 .076 Win %

Record since Campbell hire
2-6 .250 Win %

Average score vs Oklahoma prior to Campbell
ISU 9.0 Oklahoma 30.9

Average score since Campbell hire
ISU 27.8 Oklahoma 32.0

Most ISU points vs Ok prior to Campbell
40

Most since Campbell hire
41

Most Oklahoma points prior to Campbell
63

Most since Campbell hire
42

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Has anyone transferred a Ticketmaster ticket that is in their Apple wallet? Google says that you should be able to do it in the wallet, but it appears Ticketmaster doesn't allow that. It also says you can do it in the Ticketmaster app, but it doesn't show the tickets I have in my wallet.

Listening to @ChrisMWilliams and Danny Mac. Hearing coach get emotional about stopping Iowa's streak and for ISU fans to have some pride again.

Any industry, any profession, throw out your best example of someone heading to "the enemy."

I'll start off with an obvious one, Lee Iacocca.

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TCU Saturday, October 7th. Kickoff 7 pm

4 tickets, section 11, row 16 - $120 each SOLD

4 tickets, section M, row 2 - $50 each OBO

Message me if interested in other games except Kansas

I wrote this before the season started and just found it. Thought it would be fun to post my thoughts through 4 games (8 games left).

Best case:

Rocco is BP2 and/or Kohl is a decision-maker prodigy as a freshman
Norton is a bulldozer we hoped for
The Oline looks a lot better - Miller is a bookend, violence is seen in the run game
WR's share the load keeping defenses on their toes - Gains, Bitter, Essex make big steps forward.
TE's are the second coming of Kohler, Soehner and Allen. Dean looks like the most talented TE ever.
Coach Nate Scheelhaase is the real deal and makes the offense run like a well oiled machine

Defense is just as good as last year
Ezeogu, Onydeim and transfer all make a step forward
A surprise improvement from the young LB's
DB's are everything they're hyped to be

Special Teams coach turns a weakness into mediocrity
Kickoffs can actually reach the endzone regularly
PK turns redzone trips into points
We get positive yards on punt returns

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Clearly that hasn't happened. I had hoped we'd be 3-1 at this point.

The good:

• Rocco is the decision-maker I had hoped for
• Daniel Jackson has stepped up as a viable #2 receiver
• TE Brahmer has looked good, overall I'm relatively happy with the group as a whole
• Bacon is the surprise LB that no one saw coming
• DB's are every bit as good as we hoped, maybe even better
• Special teams are much much better

The mixed bag:

• Coach Nate Scheelhaase has looked good at times and horrible at others. Hard to tell who that's on more (him or CMC), but the trend at the moment is in the right direction. Some small things look a TON better: QB sneak, fewer false starts/substitution issues/getting the play call in issues, etc. Some play designs have been way too predictable and therefore completely unsuccessful. Other play calls are not to our strengths (e.g. zone read).
• Defensive line: Orange, Onydeim, Ezeogu etc have looked good at times, but don't consistently cause as much havoc as you'd like. Not bad/not awesome.
• The defense as a whole has been a little underwhelming overall. The talent is there in the back end and the INTs show for it. But the numbers as a whole don't look as good as you'd expect

The not so good:

• Offensive line - it all starts here and it's not pretty. There are no players that have stepped up noticeably. Probably the best thing I can say is fewer false starts and snaps have been good. James Neal and Darrel Simmons have been particularly underwhelming
• Running backs - yes, you could put it all on the line, but I'm not going to do that. While yes, there haven't been many holes to hit, when they are there, they haven't been attacked like you'd want to see. Norton seems to be at the point where he expects a hole to not be there.
• The WR room again has zero breakout players outside of Jackson. Where in the world are guys like Gains, Adams, Bitter, Essex? This is the biggest head scratcher for me. With the number of guys we have on the bench, none of them are good enough to see the field? With the run game unlikely to improve much this year, we have to identify more weapons.

Every season is a wild ride... how are we now compared to what you though we'd be at this point in the season?

Let's start this off with a BANG

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RECRUITING: "It's gonna be hard to top this."

Standout '26 forward Eddie Smajic (@smajic_eddie) recaps his visit to Iowa State with @cfchangs9.

STORY: https://cyclonefanatic.com/2023/09/...top-this-missouri-prospect-says-of-iowa-state

We had two boxes show up from Walmart today. Two different names but our address. My wife opened them and each box has one cheap off brand school glue bottle in it. (Yes I know she shouldn’t have opened them but she did)

Asking $85 per ticket. Venmo is preferred payment. Direct message if interested.

Didn’t see that anyone had started a thread on this yet.

Europe looks loaded to me. Going to be tough for the U.S. IMO.

Good morning CF!
A group of us are going to Cincy for the game, but had 2 individuals who backed out after we bought the tickets. We have 2 tickets for the game and I am only looking to get back what I paid for them, $67.73. Heck we have room for 2 more people to ride out if someone wants to ride with 4 Cyclone fans! We are leaving Thursday and coming back Sunday after the Bengals/Seahawks game. @ChrisMWilliams we won't leave you high and dry like @brentblum did?!?!

Looking to buy RV Village pass

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