This is my 19th year as a season ticket holder and taking in a game at JTS has been a great experience...it gets better every year! I would love to see ISU handout towels to everyone going into the game or at least the majority of everyone going into the game. Looking over and seeing the towels waving in the students section was awesome! I can only imagine what it would look like if most everyone in the stadium had a towel waving. Penn St. did this a couple weeks ago and it certainly added to the atmosphere.
I don't have a ton of specifics as far as information goes but did ask around for general thoughts on the scrimmage vs. Wisconsin over the weekend.
The final score was pretty ugly but I'm hearing the damage was done in the second half. Apparently ISU was very strong in the first 20 and then just collapsed in the second.
Not sure exactly what to take from it other than inconsistency should somewhat be expected with this group early on. ISU did lose 80 percent of its scoring from a year ago.
I'd be really interested to hear about lineups, etc. Is ISU exclusively playing with 2 bigs?
Heard that the defense has been rough early, which is gonna be a problem, as this team isn't elite offensively by any means. I guess the good thing is the defense will no doubt get better with more reps. It generally always does.
Sorry I don't have more in the form of specifics. Will work on that today.
This summer we cranked through another couple thousand rounds of simulations to get a new and improved algorithm for the WrestleStat rankings. The 2 major components that were changed and implemented were 1) incorporating the RPI into the algorithm, and 2) moving the 14-match equilibrium to a "per-season" basis. The reason for this change is for the wrestlers that make big improvements later in their careers.
Now that these changes have been applied, we updated both of the dual and tournament rankings. If you've looked at the rankings at all this summer, then you'll notice the difference at the top/#1.
Let's talk media day and the overall season what we're expecting from me. What you're looking for. I can share some stuff I have planned for Tuesday too and see what ya'll think!
I will also be attending on Wednesday for the C+G finals. So let me know what you're thinking for that. I was going to focus on just video and social stuff and then I was going to throw it all into a post with highlights to make it easily accessible for anyone!
Please turn the gaming and hobbies forum back to opt out and make it public for all to see!! You have killed a once great sub.
It was only opt in because people whined that a mafia thread was always on the front page. Well now it's cool that there are 10 stupid threads about trump constantly on the top of the front page?
And you can't even opt in correctly to the gaming sub without a mod trying to figure out how to force it through.
Take 10 seconds out of your day to fix this as mafia was once a great staple of this site.
It appears TCU has opened up the play book for Duggan and are letting him run a lot more now. His stats are dang good for a true freshmen. To beat Texas as a freshmen has to be a rush!
Buddy called me and said his nieces were sitting in his seats and some guy fell from the upper deck onto the people seated behind them. Two were stretchered out.
Anyone see this?
Got other stories?
Edit: From posts below the guy was hurt, maybe badly
I have dropped links to the videos I tweeted from the post-game stuff at your convenience in case you missed them and the link to the full interview with Brock Purdy.
I’m kind of confused. Some games we seem like a power running game and some games we seem to fling it all over. Like we have no identity. We will be fine. Hopefully Brock gets back on track next game
