This sentiment coming off hosting gameday makes it more clueless than usual.
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I seem to remember Iowa dropping five in a row to Iowa State, including a year where we were their only regular season loss, and they survived.
A lot if people also don't realize that it isn't the 1980s anymore, and there's more to building a program than winning your in state rivalry game. Regardless of how we do against the Hawks, if we continue to have 8 win seasons we'll get attention and we'll fortify the program. Hell, the Hawks get the national attention they do just by stringing together a bunch of 7 to 9 win seasons without winning their conference or even division. We need the series to be competitive, which it has been over the past 20 years. The games are almost always close. The streaks are painful but when the teams are evenly matched they don't last forever.
OP probably wants to drop down to a non P5 conference since we've never won a Big 12 conference title.
Yes, we.
I'll never understand why people have an issue with that?
Anyone who supports the ISU football program through buying tickets, donations, etc.... is all apart of this. It all matters. Without the support from fans, the program would be nowhere.
Yeah, when I was leaving I ran into a particularly belligerent lady in the parking lots. As usual, the every other car thing was going on as I was exiting the S-lots onto the road ringing the stadium and this lady started honking and screaming about how she'd been in line for so long (join the club lady!) and that she'd hit me with her car if I turned in after the car ahead of her (which would have ended well for her considering the amount of witnesses that heard her threaten that...). Had her kids in the back too, was being a really great example for them.
However, that car ahead of her, seeing she was being ridiculous, pulled off to the side a bit and let me squeeze in ahead of them. (I assume she had been that way to them whenever they turned in)
Ferentz started 0-4 vs ISU during our 5 year win streak. That 4th loss was the Hawks only regular season loss that year. We will have our day.
If you don't have the passion that @clonedude showed in his post, why are you even on CF?
I guess we don't Einstein. Maybe you could enlighten us? We're not supposed to say "we" when referring to the ISU football team, or basketball team, or any sports team? Is that "the point"?
I have all kinds of passion about Iowa State athletics.
Yesterday was crushing. But the same people were losing their **** last year around this time. Then they would have shared their wives with Campbell by mid October.
Too many ran their mouths to the dumbass hawk fans like we see here. Now they have to eat it, and so they pout and whine.
Now clonedude does this every week, so it’s expected from him. But Jesus perspective is ******* necessary at some point.
He’s assigning himself fandom, and not necessarily sincere about it.
Calm down. Tough l last night. You’ll be fine.
I wondered when someone would realize this. The cities of Ames and Iowa city, also the spillover to Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, benefit from these games. People in decorah, not so much
There's no denying that the best strategic option for the program is to load up on cupcakes and start every season 3-0. It literally doesn't hurt our current program state in any way.
I couldn’t disagree with this more. Sounds like a great way to guarantee some rough lessons in conference play.
This team knows it’s weaknesses and has a month to fix them before conference play starts. They aren’t competing for the big 12 the last two years playing 3 powder puffs.
I've been a fan since the 80's, graduated from ISU, but I'm not a fan. Um, ok. Got it.
In what scenario does a loss to an Iowa or UNI benefit us more than being 3-0 against garbage teams? Did those losses to Iowa help us win the conference lately?
I'm sure the coaching staff can identify weaknesses in practices and in camp, as well even during these garbage games. These games would also give us valuable time to play and coach our depth. Hopefully they'd give our starters both stats and rest. We learn rough lessons in conference play as-is, we're still going to do that either way. We should be stacking W's as much as possible, 'cuz at the end of the day, any W is greater than any L.
Putting the bravado and bragging rights aside and just looking purely at program state, there's never a reason to take a non-con loss. We've taken, what, 5 of them in 4 years?