The Wave
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ILikeCy the funny is for the stickers and patches not for the passing the hat idea.
We should take Iowa's wave - a great new college football tradition - as an opportunity to do something even bigger than the kid captain thing that we currently do. We don't need a children's hospital next door to really capitalize on the best part of the sport which is using the visibility of the team and its players to make people's lives better, especially kids. Iowa did that with the wave brilliantly and we should use that as motivation to come up with our own thing as well. We shouldn't need to just latch onto Iowa's and be their backup when they happen to be on a bye week. We can do something more creative and more impactful than that.
Heck send them with CWilliams and save the postage, he's going down there Mon. anyway. By the way CW hope your daughter is ok.
I liked the idea . . . a first reaction. But, the mechanics of it, making it understood rather than a sort of weird non-sequitur with some thousands in JTS attempting to do it with thousands of others not having a clue about what's going on. . . .
It's an eiu thing, let it remain in that realm. It's a good thing, we iSu fans can applaud it as something above and beyond partisanship, but our involvement might confuse the whole issue.
Let it be eiu's thing.
It's an eiu thing, let it remain in that realm. It's a good thing, we iSu fans can applaud it as something above and beyond partisanship, but our involvement might confuse the whole issue.
Let it be eiu's thing.
So many of you are over thinking it or only thinking about it in hawk terms.
There is NO such thing as a spontaneous display of compassion by 50,000 people. Of COURSE it's contrived but it's not about the hawk haters on this board or who gets credit...
If it gives a sick kid and his family a brief respite from their possibly terminal disease - regardless of which team they like - no harm and I would gladly wave like a goof for the moment.
But we can't let the Hawks have any press that is possibly good - I get it.
There is NO such thing as a spontaneous display of compassion by 50,000 people. Of COURSE it's contrived but it's not about the hawk haters on this board or who gets credit...
If it gives a sick kid and his family a brief respite from their possibly terminal disease - regardless of which team they like - no harm and I would gladly wave like a goof for the moment.
But we can't let the Hawks have any press that is possibly good - I get it.
So many of you are over thinking it or only thinking about it in hawk terms.
There is NO such thing as a spontaneous display of compassion by 50,000 people. Of COURSE it's contrived but it's not about the hawk haters on this board or who gets credit...
If it gives a sick kid and his family a brief respite from their possibly terminal disease - regardless of which team they like - no harm and I would gladly wave like a goof for the moment.
But we can't let the Hawks have any press that is possibly good - I get it.
This argument is dumb.
There are a million things we could 'send a nice message' to. We could literally spend the entire game going from one issue to the other.
So many of you are over thinking it or only thinking about it in hawk terms.
There is NO such thing as a spontaneous display of compassion by 50,000 people. Of COURSE it's contrived but it's not about the hawk haters on this board or who gets credit...
If it gives a sick kid and his family a brief respite from their possibly terminal disease - regardless of which team they like - no harm and I would gladly wave like a goof for the moment.
But we can't let the Hawks have any press that is possibly good - I get it.
How would waving to the intramural fields give any sick kids respite from anything? They can't see the stadium from anywhere but in the stadium, and they won't be showing the crowd during the break between 1Q and 2Q. It has nothing to do with letting the hawks have good press. It's about letting them have their thing and not trying to force their thing into our stadium where it makes <0 sense.
He also has a multitude of charges including duis and doesn't pay child support.
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So many of you are over thinking it or only thinking about it in hawk terms.
There is NO such thing as a spontaneous display of compassion by 50,000 people. Of COURSE it's contrived but it's not about the hawk haters on this board or who gets credit...
If it gives a sick kid and his family a brief respite from their possibly terminal disease - regardless of which team they like - no harm and I would gladly wave like a goof for the moment.
But we can't let the Hawks have any press that is possibly good - I get it.
There are plenty of kids and families that need good thoughts. Not only in Iowa City.
If it wouldn't be misinterpreted as directed to kids in a hospital, I'd suggest we all wave our middle finger in the direction of Iowa City after every first quarter. Too bad we didn't think of this first.
@cyIclSoneU whats to disagree about my post? You can look up the guy's record online.
Then DO something. All you and most others are just running down the hawks for trying to make a sick kid's day a little brighter.
Ya, for this to work you'd have to get a lot of people on board. First the athletic department would have to back it so they could announce it a few times before the end of the 1st half so you don't have 50/50 doing it vs. not doing it from spite/not knowing what's going on.
Then you'd have to get the media outlets heads up early enough so they can talk about it and be prepared to cover it from several angles. Show it on the field, and maybe a camera at the hospital.
Both of these would have to happen before then alerting the Children's hospital so they could prepare for it.
Too many cooks in the kitchen for this to work properly.
IMO, we already do the kids captain thing which is really cool, and it's never got the press its deserved until Boykon did his thing. Do the wave in JTS would be stupid. It makes perfect sense, and is awesome, in Kinnick, but it's not for JTS. Let's do something else that benefits the same cause.
You're out of line.
People are not running down the Hawkeyes for the wave. Most have applauded it, in fact. What people are saying is that if WE did it, it would be contrived. Half of the stadium wouldn't know why it was happening, and the kids are completely unlikely to see it or even hear of it.