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I'm pretty sure every single town in america has a "welcome to god's country" sign, doesn't matter if you're in alaska or new jersey.
 
Trice said:
You mean like...next season?
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You're right.

2023 at Ohio
2025 at Arkansas State (there's an Arkansas State?)
2027 at Bowling Green (OH or KY?)
2029 at Tulane (okay this one is fine)
assuming 2031 at UNLV (okay, again fine)
 
An easy way to shut Iowa fans up when they make fun of Iowa State as an ag school is to remind them that 70%+ of big tin schools are ag schools.

Hell, Roy Carver, one of Iowa's biggest givers, graduated from a land grant/ag school. Illinois. He never took a class at Iowa.
 
Mr.G.Spot said:
An easy way to shut Iowa fans up when they make fun of Iowa State as an ag school is to remind them that 70%+ of big tin schools are ag schools.

Hell, Roy Carver, one of Iowa's biggest givers, graduated from a land grant/ag school. Illinois. He never took a class at Iowa.
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Iowa fans talking down to Iowa State, the land-grant university of the state of Iowa (and not them) that focused on agriculture, engineering, and science, is pretty funny on a few levels.

(1.) Iowa has an "ANF" sticker on their helmets purporting that they support farmers. I would imagine a very disproportionate amount of Iowa farmers are Iowa State grads, not Iowa grads.

So... do you support farmers or not, Hawkeyes?

(2.) It is my understanding Iowa chose black and gold as the black for Iowa soil and the gold for Iowa corn. That might be apocryphal, but if not, then their very colors are a homage to agriculture.

So Iowa State grads are dumb yokel farmers... who you claim to support and chose your school colors to honor?
 
madguy30 said:
This isn't just a regional thing.

UW is a really good place for all sorts of reasons, but many of their fans act like Iowa State is 'little ol' Iowa State'.

And then there's TOE fans with the 'it's surrounded by corn fields!' angle.

Ames is a sleepy town but maybe some players feel a need for more of a close knit community.
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Having lived in Chicago, L.A., S.F., Oregon, MN, and now WV, I say 'embrace' the uniqueness of Ames. It's that very simple, peaceful lifestyle, I've realized is what makes life so wonderful for me now.
 
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Sigmapolis said:
Iowa fans talking down to Iowa State, the land-grant university of the state of Iowa (and not them) that focused on agriculture, engineering, and science, is pretty funny on a few levels.

(1.) Iowa has an "ANF" sticker on their helmets purporting that they support farmers. I would imagine a very disproportionate amount of Iowa farmers are Iowa State grads, not Iowa grads.

So... do you support farmers or not, Hawkeyes?

(2.) It is my understanding Iowa chose black and gold as the black for Iowa soil and the gold for Iowa corn. That might be apocryphal, but if not, then their very colors are a homage to agriculture.

So Iowa State grads are dumb yokel farmers... who you claim to support and chose your school colors to honor?
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I have no doubt the contempt from Iowa fans toward ISU is real. Dumb tribalism, but real. Which really lays bare the total emptiness of "ANF." It is and always was a complete sham PR campaign.

The U of I loves, loves, loves its empty gestures.
 
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brokenloginagain said:
That UCLA bit was hilarious!

I've been lucky to live in different parts of the US at different times in my life, and what I will say, is that people from SoCal, midwest, east coast, southeast, etc., nearly all love where they live, and can't understand why anyone would live any place else.
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I live in the midwest, I can totally understand wanting to live anywhere else.
 
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The thing that bothered me most from the UCLA thing from their "self-selection" comment was that implication that Iowa State is full of intolerant hicks and that if you would even consider that, it means you are also an intolerant hick and they (hypocritically) didn't want that.

At least that's how I took that comment and not in regards to opportunities, academics, etc. But it definitely wasn't explicit so I could easily see other interpretations
 
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How would you like it if Jack Trice Stadium was in Ankeny? That's about how far the Rose Bowl is from the UCLA campus (and with LA traffic).

Although the Rose Bowl is iconic and Pasadena is nice, I would hate having our football stadium 25 miles from campus.
 
Trice said:
Fans making fun of other fans for characteristics they have in common is my all-time favorite. You have to be the dumbest person alive to make fun of an ag school in an ag-dominated state.

I'll never forget going to the ISU game at Northern Illinois in 2003. After the tough loss, we trudged back to the parking lot and some drunk NIU fan taunts us with, "Iowa is nothing but cornfields and losers!" Meanwhile, not a couple hundred yards away in three different directions were...you guessed it. (And in a town named Dekalb, no less.)
We must have walked out at same time.
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I’m not going to sit here and say Ames has more opportunities and things to do than LA, but I know there is an exodus from California because of how poorly these cities are run. Rampant homelessness and crime. But hey at least the girls are fine haha.

Not knocking LA and the lifestyle. I’m sometimes envious I am not a coastal elite. But I love central Iowa and ISU has given me the option to move and work anywhere. I chose to stay in Iowa because of how great it is.
 
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