See!!!! You cannot understand ---- like I said above. Class of '75 '78 and '81!!!!!!!!!!
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To be fair, I don't know what "choice" you're referring to, and I'm an alum as well
I graduated from ISU too, thank you. That doesn't mean I have the foggiest idea of what you're talking about though.
Wait. What? I graduated from Iowa State after living and breathing Ames and all it's glory for 6 years. What the heck are you talking about?
FWIW...I thought it was a well written blog, but maybe left a little out. A "fan" maybe defined as someone not invested? I know exactly the type of "fan" the author of the blog is talking about. A person who 'gives' to the school with no regard for reciprocation from 'on field success' is "a Cyclone."
This is oppossed to a 'fan' of a football program, who doesn't follow basketball...for example.
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I think being an alumni gives you a perspective and an experience with and about the school that you can't really get without going to school at ISU. It doesn't automatically make you a better fan or even make you a better fan the majority of the time. But if you don't think investing 4 or more years of your time and near $50,000 of your money to ISU will give you any kind of special bond to the university, then you are wrong.
It isn't something that can be obtained by someone who didn't attend ISU, but it sure as hell isn't the only thing that matters.
Al4State's example of being a Vikings fan from Iowa is very spot on IMO. I am a Vikings fan as well and I consider myself a very big fan, but I am not a Minnesotan and there isn't that connection between the Twin Cities and I that Minnesotans have.
It isn't something that can be obtained by someone who didn't attend ISU, but it sure as hell isn't the only thing that matters.
Al4State's example of being a Vikings fan from Iowa is very spot on IMO. I am a Vikings fan as well and I consider myself a very big fan, but I am not a Minnesotan and there isn't that connection between the Twin Cities and I that Minnesotans have.
This needs to be bumped. :yes: :yes: :yes:
She wrote what I've tried to explain to people for years. WELL DONE. If I rep you, will you give it to her?
She wrote what I've tried to explain to people for years. WELL DONE. If I rep you, will you give it to her?
This needs to be bumped. :yes: :yes: :yes:
She wrote what I've tried to explain to people for years. WELL DONE. If I rep you, will you give it to her?
I'll do my best.
