Love me some random crack pot theories. Consciousness is a quagmire we can't explain but this article has a pretty cool way of looking at it.

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1 ticket for sale for $15.
Open to offers.

Its a four hour drive for me and I'm taking the family.

Wondering people's thoughts on Louisville’s basketball court.

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The standard WE WILL logo is great and obviously is inspired by our boy Jack.

BUT!

What if WE WILL was around in the 1980s - what would the logo have looked like? I often draw mock vintage logos but it's hard to find time to make an actual semi-finished design. For this one, I was inspired by three specific things from the 1980s:

1. Action cartoons and toy graphics
2. Wrestlemania and wrestling rings
3. Fonts from space/futuristic movies etc.

Another one I'm noodling around with is an intriciately woven monogram inspired by early 1900s school and athletic logos (including ISU).

I wonder if we could get 10,000 ISU fans to buy one shirt a year for $30 with $20 going to WE WILL? Using my calculator, that works out to $2.75 million. Yes, many monies. Problem solved.

Looking for 4 tickets in SEZ for Kansas game! Thanks so much!! Go Cyclones!!!

Enjoy.

I pondered putting together a post on how to illustrate the improvements in recruiting under Matt Campbell. I considered breaking down the incremental advances in recruiting rankings over the past seven or eight years, but that’s a metric flawed at it’s very root. For multiple reasons.

One, because the rankings themselves are wholly subjective. Two, well…there are other reasons, but that one’s good enough. Besides, it’s boring!

So, I thought about what metric could clearly and cleanly illustrate a substantial improvement, with unarguable, objective data?

And there’s really only one. Verified track speed. High school track results.

Let’s be honest. For ages, speed has been a real Achilles heel for the Cyclone football program. Even unquestioned all time stars like Tracy Henderson, Troy Davis or Todd Blythe weren’t known for their blazing speed.

And while occasional HS track stars did appear in the program—guys like Danny Harris (400m hurdles), Ellis Hobbs (24” long jumper) or Nik Moser (400m), they were just that, occasional unicorns, once a decade guys. The guys on the team who had run a sub 11.0 100m could usually be counted on one or two…fingers. If that many.

I seem to recall that Ellis also ran a 10.61 100m—but that was a very long time ago.

As a measuring tape, Kene Nwangwu was an all around unicorn, with a 10.54 100m, a 24’ 5” long jump, a 6’11” high jump and a 44’ 8 1/2” triple jump. He also just happened to.be the zenith of Paul Rhoads’ recruiting. And, under Coach Campbell, the start of a new Cyclone era.

Okay, sure, so some guys like Breece Hall didn’t seriously run high school track. Still, rather than one or two “fast” guys on the team, here’s what the established results for current team members and recruits looks like—and remember, most coaches consider an 11.0 100m to be the gold standard:

Dimitri Stanley 10.70 (HS) 10.80 (CU)
Quaron Adams 10.49 (HS)
Eli Sanders 10.71 (HS)
Abu Sama 10.84 (HS), 21.76 200m, 24’10” LJ
Carson Hansen 10.85 (HS)
Darien Porter 10.68 (HS), also 46.99 400
Jeremiah Cooper 10.65 (HS)

Plus:
Brett Eskildsen 10.70, 44’ 1 3/4” TJ, senior season yet to come

Also:
Michael Parkes 11.01 (HS)
Beni Ngoyi 11.02 (HS JR)
Beau Freyler 11.05 (HS)
Jaylin Noel 11.07 (HS Soph, did not compete again)
Jamison Patton 6’6” HJ (only occasional track exp)
Myles Norwood 47’ 8 1/2 Triple Jump (State Champ in HS), 23’ 4 1/4” LJ (HS), 23’ 11 1/2” (as frosh at JC)

Not bad, huh?

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Guys (and ladies).

I must admit that I did not have the excitement to make another one of these threads due to the struggle with the team that began at the end of 2021. With the recent success (and also me reviewing my evaluations of guys like Becht and Cooper), I feel energized and excited to share my thoughts on these players. I look forward to seeing what you guys think. I will do my best to post a couple guys every week.

*****IMPORTANT NOTE*****
I want to make clear the vocabulary that is the "Player Comp." Over the past few years, I have given player comps in these evals to try to paint of picture of the play styles of a prospect. When I make a player comp, I am not projecting the career that the prospect is likely to have, but moreso the play style they have. For instance, I may compare Deon Silas is comped to Darren Sproles (rather than a guy like Jerome Bettis), meaning he is a short back that makes quick cuts to get yards and not his body. I am not saying that Deon is likely to be a Heisman finalist and have a 15 year NFL career; that projection is in a different section.

I don't want you to think I'm incredibly delusional and believe that we are going to have a team full of Heisman hopefuls.

Let's get started......

PLAYER RATINGS

Freshman Rating:
Dylan Lee 71
Cooper Alexander 70
Connor Moberly 70
Khijohnn Cummings-Coleman 70
Cael Brezina 68
Wade Helton 68

Potential Rating:
Khijohnn Cummings-Coleman 96
Dylan Lee 96
Cooper Alexander
Cael Brezina 92
Connor Moberly 92
Wade Helton 89

SUPERLATIVES

Most likely to be your dad's favorite player
TBD

Most likely to have the longest NFL Career
TBD

Most likely to start first game of collegiate career
TBD

My Top 5 Favorite
TBD

Iowa fans who are 6 - 1 and have a terrible Offense but good special teams and elite Defense
OR
Iowa State fans who are 4-3 but seeing the Offense - Defense - and Special teams improve?

Cyclone commits Adrian Meza (132) and Daniel Herrera (285) competing at the Super 32 tournament this weekend. 132 is absolutely loaded with the top 3 guys all being former World team members. 285 has a bunch of pretty equally ranked guys at the top who have all beaten each other. For what it's worth, this Flo writer picks Herrera.

Super 32 preview

we are sitting 3-1 in conference right now with 3 very winnable games coming out of the bye before texas comes to town in november. if everything goes out way we could be 6-1 in conference and playing texas in a game that would be huge.! anyone think that was possible early in the season when we were playing so many freshman in weeks 1-3.

i love the way nate is calling the games. and higgins has been a great complement to jalen on the other side. im starting to feel real good about the rest of the season.

feel free to chime in

Looking for 3 tickets for the Texas game. Would prefer to buy from a cyclone fan than Ticketmaster.

I am heading up to the 49ers vs Vikings Monday night game. I have never been to a Vikings home game. Interested in hearing what options are available for tailgating? I can bring up all my ISU tailgating stuff but is there anywhere to setup camp? Thanks for any information.

Live and farm along I80 and I notice a new light pole and electric junction boxes(?) along the road. I know their is fiber optic lines, but for what reason? IDOT camera systems, or what? I guess I will have to be more careful when I have to relive myself!

Been meaning to start a new thread for this season. I probably will not check in or post for a few days after each episode as right now my Wednesday nights are busy and my kids are into the show now so we usually don't get around to watching the new episodes until the weekend.

Episode 1 - I hate when players quit like that. There are so many people that apply for Survivor and when someone flat out quits especially the very 1st tribal council it has to really piss off people that made it through interviews and didn't get selected. Even as a fan it frustrates me as I want to see players that actually want to be there and do everything they can to stay in the game.

Episode 2- No shock to see Brandon voted out, he has the weak link from day 1 with challenges

Episode 3 - great blindside with Sabiyah, another 1st in Survivor with someone using the fire at tribal council to melt wax down to get an idol only to go home with it in their pocket

Random thoughts so far: Guessing a mix up is coming soon but would be fun to see if Lulu tribe can just decimate themselves by continuing to lose challenges. If there is a puzzle involved they pretty much are doomed as they've not come close in any challenges that have had a puzzle in it. I can't stand Emily, was hoping she would get voted out by now but she's somehow taken the target off her back and weaseled her way into the right side of the numbers on Lulu. She seems like the type though that as soon as there is a merge she'll be a snake in the grass. I think some of the people on Belo who don't like Bruce are overplaying the "this is his 2nd time playing." While that is true the dude didn't even make it past the 1st episode last season so just how much of an advantage does that really give him when he barely played the game and didn't even go to a tribal council. I like some of the new twists with the immunity idols so far too. A lot of people used to complain how it was too easy to find idols and there were too many of them in play that messed up the votes and now they have added some more risks and disadvantages to finding them that makes them a temporary negative if you lose your vote in order to find or keep an idol long enough where you can use it later in the game.

Below are the rules.

Pick a team you think will win that weeks game. Pick only 1 team per week.
Don't pm me the pick, post on here you pick.
You can only pick that team ONCE the entire time you are in the game.
The goal is to advance and be the last person standing.
You have till the start of the last game of week 1 to enter.
You have up until the start time of the game you picked to switch When making a switch please edit your original pick post. If you make a second post I will take that as your switching picks.
If your team loses, you are out for the competition.
If you skip a week of picks, you are out.
You can switch as many times up until the game you have picked officially starts.
If you have questions, pm me
Post 2 of the thread will have the possible games you can pick.
Post 3 of the thread will have players left and who they have picked.

Since it’s October, we at OTN want to do something with a Halloween tie-in. This week, the topic is focused solely one one Halloween monster/creature: the vampire.

We’re looking for songs with the words vampire, Dracula, bite/biting, suck, blood and other associated terms. It may appear in either/both the title or lyrics.


“On That Note” is presented weekly by @MeanDean, @cyclones500 and myself.

Last Week: Toys in the Attic/Games People Play

Hey all,

Have seen some questions about where We Will stands on a couple of different topics as it relates to our peers. Note that it is very difficult to find exact data on these because collectives aren't obligated to share info and most won't for competitive reasons, but based on what I can tell this is where things stand.

The largest collectives have an annual budget of $10M plus. We aren't anywhere near that at the moment. We are staying afloat for now, but need everyone's help to compete with our peers who are at the $4-6M level, which is where the majority of the Big 12 lives. We don't have a huge marketing budget because we want to use as many resources as possible for the Cyclones, so word of mouth is the single best way to share. We have 800 monthly contributors as of this second giving $10 or more per month. I really would love to get that number to 2,000 by the time the portal opens. We will need it. Please tell your Cyclone colleagues and friends. You may not think the beer, coffee, golf balls, merch and everything else adds up, but it really does to make Iowa State competitive. Go to www.wewillcollective.com to learn more and if you have individual questions reach out at [email protected]. Thanks all!

-Brent

Sec 213, Row 15, Seats 1-4 (aisle closer to midcourt)

$25ea - Mon, Nov 6 @ 7pm - Green Bay
$25ea - Thu, Nov 9 @ 7pm - Lindenwood
$25ea - Sun, Nov 12 @ 12pm - Idaho State
$25ea - Sun, Nov 19 @ 12pm - Grambling State
$200ea - Thu, Dec 7 @ 7pm - Iowa
SOLD - Sun, Dec 10 @ 12pm - Prairie View A&M
$25ea - Sun, Dec 17 @ 5pm - Florida A&M
$25ea - Thu, Dec 21 @ 7pm - Eastern Illinois
$25ea - Sun, Dec 31 @ 12pm - New Hampshire

Selling a D3 parking pass for the Texas game. $175 obo