WOOOEEEE! Helluva Game, Clones!

Just wanted to pop on and show y'all some of we "Red Iowa" folks are definitely in your corner! I wish I could have watched live, but I don't have the proper service. In any case, congrats on your contribution to this years Big 12 Circle of Suck. I have totally lost track of who beat who, who beat someone else, etc. We had a frozen game, but dry here in Salt Lake today, but no real excitement to warm us up.

Very happy for you fans and for the players especially. Wonderful wrapup for the season. Here's wishing you best of luck in landing a good bowl. I'm curiosu about that 3-way tie for 4th place though.

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Farmageddon Feelings?

What do you care more about right now?

  • Beating K-State for Bragging Rights

    Votes: 52 19.7%
  • Beating K-State to eliminate any B12 Title Chances

    Votes: 12 4.5%
  • Beating K-State to troll John Kurtz

    Votes: 14 5.3%
  • Beating K-State for better Bowl Game

    Votes: 130 49.2%
  • Who cares? Where are we bowling at?

    Votes: 20 7.6%
  • This poll is dumb.

    Votes: 29 11.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 7 2.7%

I have not seen any threads about K-State yet this week, so I wanted to ask why.

I don't care too much at this point since ISU has clinched a bowl game and doesn't have a chance for the title game.

I think it'd be hilarious if we won, because John Kurtz has nicknamed CMC, "Mr. 7-5," so it'd be funny if we knocked them down a peg by getting to 7-5 by beating the Wildcats.

We're actually due for another 7-5 season based upon history.

CMC's Regular Season Records
  • 2016: 3-9
  • 2017: 7-5
  • 2018: 8-4
  • 2019: 7-5
  • 2020: 8-2
  • 2021: 7-5
  • 2022: 4-8
  • 2023: 6-5 (so far)

Unofficial Big 12 Strength of Schedule

I ran through the schedules of the Big12 teams with winning conference records just out of curiosity to see who had the hardest schedule:

TEAMRECORDOPPONENTS RECORD
KANSAS5-445-36
IOWA STATE6-341-40
OKLAHOMA 7-241-40
KANSAS STATE6-341-40
OKLAHOMA STATE7-238-43
TEXAS8-138-43
TEXAS TECH5-437-44
WEST VIRGINIA6-332-49

Takeaways:

1. West Virginia confirmed my suspicion as to how they achieved a 6-3 record. Easiest schedule by far.
2. Kansas deserves some kudos for obtaining a winning record with the hardest schedule (and QB issues all year).
3. I miss the round robin format.

Bug Can't log in to my CF account from anywhere

Yesterday I hit my 30 days and had to log in to my CF account on my phone. It wouldn't let me log back in. I get no error message or any indication something has gone wrong, it appears to accept the login but then simply goes back to the forum list, not having logged me in.

I've tried numerous browsers and devices and the behavior is consistently the same everywhere, so I assume this is related to my account or a site bug. And yet - obviously because I'm posting under my account - it hasn't logged me out in places where I haven't hit my 30 day limit yet. Of course, I want to get this solved because within days I'll be logged out everywhere and won't be able to get in.

I also discovered accidentally that if I am in a device/browser that is still within its 30 days, I can log out and it will log me back in successfully.

Any ideas?

ESPN Events Invitational - We Will Challenge

It is 12 days until the portal opens and we still have a ways to go to hit the $600,000 WeWill goal. With that said, I was thinking we could crowdsource our efforts over Thanksgiving weekend in a way that corresponds with the basketball team's success in Orlando.

The Challenge: For each basketball game, simply match each level below

A. Win = $10 for every win at the tournament
AND
B. Point total of Cyclone's leading scorer each game = $__

For example, if the Cyclones win on Thursday and Milan leads us with 17 points that's $10 + $17 = $27

You can fulfill this donation by Venmo @wewillclub OR directly online https://www.wewillcollective.com/

A reminder that all donations through the end of the year are doubled dollar for dollar up to $300k!

We can bring many of our most impactful players back next season just like Will McDonald and TJ Tampa in previous years. However, we NEED to be proactive these next two weeks and get ahead of this. You can make a difference in our future. Go Cyclones!

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Long term implications

Winners and new coaches draw in the best players. Will be interesting to see how this season impacts recruiting classes moving forward. We are only three games in, but a trend has appeared. If this season tanks like last year…we might see recruiting take a nose dive further cementing our nose dive as the KU replacement at the bottom of the Big 16. It’s a slippery slope.

Advice needed: budget friendly laptop for basic needs

with today being cyber Monday, my wife wants us to look for a replacement laptop. Our current one is about 10 years old and is showing it's age.

Primary uses would be running Office applications such as excel for budgeting, Word and PowerPoint for various reasons and storing family photos.

I haven't kept up on brands and specs to look out for.

Budget, maybe $400? Not sure what that gets you nowadays.

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Which player loss hurts the most. Pick 2

Which loss hurts this team the most?

  • Dekkers

  • Brock

  • Remsburg

  • Lee

  • Hanika


Results are only viewable after voting.

assuming all are gone for at least half a season if not all.


QB Dekkers. Although, he wasn't spectacular by any means last season, that was his first season as a starter at this level and was the clear favorite to be the starter again this season. Completely unproven very young backups.

RB Brock. When he was healthy, he seemed like the clear number one to me. An important part of a RB's job is not just to run, but to pick up blitzes and protect the quarterback (that will no be 100% inexperienced with the loss of dekkers). Remember, even when Hall was running the show, Brock would come in on passing downs because he excelled in pass protection.

OL Remsberg. Seemed like he was hurt the bulk of last year but got starts towards the end of the year. ISU seems to never get over the hump on the OL. This hurts a lot now that ISU will be missing the Likely RB1 and QB1 and TE1 (or 2)

DT Lee. Tough to replace a RS senior this late in the game. Was the best returning DL ISU had coming back, especially with MJ anderson somewhat unexpectedly declaring for the draft.

Deshawn Hanika. Led all TE in receiving yards, TD's, yards per reception. Apparently Easton Dean was banged up all year, so perhaps he wasn't really the best TE on the roster. Was the best on the field last year though.
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STORY: Cyclones lead by 21, but can't close the deal in loss to No. 12 Texas A&M

Iowa State led No. 12 by Texas A&M by 21 points on Sunday, but couldn't close things out.

"The competitive spirit, the effort and the energy is there, but we've got to do things to keep ourselves out of deficit," coach T.J. Otzelberger said.

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VIDEO from post-dual - Dresser, Frost and Swiderski

Hello!

Here is the video from the press conference. My phone was being weird so excuse the weird quality. Casey surprised me in his answers. Not what he said but how he said them. He was very confident and came off as a leader. I liked seeing that.


A few tweets I sent:

Dresser om no challenge at 141 pounds:
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Dresser on MJ Gaitan:
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Missed opportunities frame No. 8 Iowa State’s Cy-Hawk wrestling dual loss to No. 4 Iowa

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