What's ISU's Skeleton in the Closet?

[ISUCubswin]

What's an embarrassing moment in Iowa State history, sports or otherwise, that we try to suppress?

And I'm thinking more in terms of "that's a really bad look for the university" bad, not necessarily bad losses (UAB)

Examples from other places: Pierre Pierce at Iowa, Baylor and Penn States scandals, USC rowing.

What most comes to mind for me is the Veishea riots. Any others?

 

[fcclone]

What's an embarrassing moment in Iowa State history, sports or otherwise, that we try to suppress?

And I'm thinking more in terms of "that's a really bad look for the university" bad, not necessarily bad losses (UAB)

Examples from other places: Pierre Pierce at Iowa, Baylor and Penn States scandals, USC rowing.

What most comes to mind for me is the Veishea riots. Any others?

Sam Mack.

 

[cytor]

Eustashy

 

[isufbcurt]

I can't think of anything from ISU that embarrassed me.

 

[Nor'easter]

I can't think of anything from ISU that embarrassed me.

Besides our entire history of performance on the field I agree

 

[dahliaclone]

Bruce VDV as our AD and having a profile on message boards and replying...all the time?

 

[AuH2O]

Royce is really making a run for it here as of late.

 

[cytor]

What's an embarrassing moment in Iowa State history, sports or otherwise, that we try to suppress?

And I'm thinking more in terms of "that's a really bad look for the university" bad, not necessarily bad losses (UAB)

Examples from other places: Pierre Pierce at Iowa, Baylor and Penn States scandals, USC rowing.

What most comes to mind for me is the Veishea riots. Any others?

The Hoks have a LOT of Skeletons.... but the Pierce was a good start.

 

[laminak]

Jim Criner being caught for cheating scandals and didn't even result in a good record.

 

[HGoat1]

VEISHEA "riots" were not ideal. But i still love VEISHEA.

 

[GMackey32]

Graham Spanier

 

[Cyforce]

Dan McCarney hire.

Alright somebody explain to me how the domestic abuse coming to light in the 11th hour wasn't embarrassing?

 

[cytor]

Dan McCartney hire.

Is that Paul McCartney's brother?

 

[keepngoal]

Pres crashing a plane he should not have been using.

 

[CYdTracked]

Eustachy scandal was probably most embarrassing I can remember and would have been even worse now with social media and smart phones that would have spread that story quickly. The loss to Hampton much lime the UAB loss was embarrassing.

 

[casey1973]

I rather hear about skeletons in the hawks many, many closets and probably in all their homes......

 

[ISUCubswin]

Sam Mack.

Had to Google this. Yeesh. That is a tough one.

 

[Ayagi]

Besides our entire history of performance on the field I agree

The ENTIRE HISTORY should not embarrass anyone.

 

[AuH2O]

Is that Paul McCartney's brother?

Guessing he means this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1995/03/11/iowa-st-coach-says-domestic-abuse-case-overblown/32d9b208-d887-46c7-891b-65954e207f1e/

 

[jdoggivjc]

Dan McCartney hire.

I will never understand this dumb take. I will outright acknowledge McCarney didn’t win nearly as much as he should have, mostly because anytime he got a lead he would get conservative to protect it instead of crushing the opponent’s throat, and by the end of 2006 it was past time to move on from him. But calling him embarrassing is one of the worst takes there is. This current era of Cyclone football we’re enjoying doesn’t exist without McCarney laying the foundation for it.