Let me tell you, it'll be 100% the latter until after the fact because of our self serving society that wants attention.
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Let me tell you, it'll be 100% the latter until after the fact because of our self serving society that wants attention.
The Greek system at ISU does a Dance Marathon each year. The money raised goes to support children at U of I Hospitals. This would be a great way to wave.
Agree. except I wish there was a mechanism to give the money to the families as well.
And please no cardinal and gold Wave billboard shirts. If you want to actually help, just send the whole $30 to the hospital, I'm sure they'll take it without you buying a shirt.
Or maybe support Blank Children's Hospital and our kid captain's families too.
Honestly, it makes more sense to wave at Blank Children's Hospital, since they are closer and actually sponsor some stuff for ISU.
Yeah I think it's cool what they do and would be nice if we could do something. However, I am not sure who I would be waving to unless the kids in the hospital were watching the game on TV I suppose. Just seems forced. It's a good tradition at Iowa. What Hawk fans should do on the bye week is go buy some toys and take them up to the kids in the hospital every year. That would make more sense than me waving at nothing.
No, there isn't a hospital to wave to. Great tradition they have started, but this would just be a way for them to continue their circlejerk when they are on a bye week.
Since the Red Sox were eliminated and won't be playing Saturday, we should sing "Sweet Caroline."
How about when they announce the kid captain in the end zone we wave to him/her. Is that done at the end of the first quarter?
He spends a lot of time with Hawk media.
I might be more receptive if every time I got on social media, I didn't since Hawks ripping on Joel Lanning of all people.
Obviously a great idea for home games and cool when the opposing teams do it for the away games. Just doesn't make a lot of sense for us to do it when it's pretty unlikely many of those tvs would be tuned to ISU/KU, plus Fox would probably not even show it on tv.
If we do the wave, then we should pass buckets during the wave to collect donations. Then this could become something with actual tangible benefits. I'm not too excited about doing this wave, but I could get on board if we one-up the Hawks and take it to another level. Then put helmet stickers or patches on their uniform that say "AHC".
#ActuallyHelpingChildren
Edit: If we actually do this, don't ask for something weak like quarters. Ask for whatever people can donate. It should be easy to collect at least $50k-100k.
dumb idea that doesn't make a lot of sense imo. These kids won't be watching the game, and it doesn't involve the Hawkeyes at all. Sure we played them, but Michigan State also played them. Does that mean they'll be waving on Saturday too?
Why don't we have the band play "In Heaven There Is No Beer" while we're at it?
And to participate in another Hawkeye Gameday Tradition, let's feed a bunch of shots to Walters and Heft before kickoff.