COLUMN: Good riddance, big brother

[ChrisMWilliams]

My column on what I believe will be Texas' final game ever in Ames.

WILLIAMS: Good riddance, big brother - Cyclone Fanatic

We all can look back on our lives and recall somebody we idolized during our childhood. This person, in your not-yet mature mind, was larger than life. They looked cool when they walked. They exuded confidence, smiled with a swagger and captured the attention of all upon walking into a room...

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[DSMCy]

Bring that fire! Love it CW.

 

[Farnsworth]

Great read!

To stick with the above analogy, back then, Cyclone athletics were maybe in third or fourth grade. Jack Trice wasn’t a power five stadium. The football team practiced in front of random coeds at the Lied Rec Center (imagine that in 2021) while hoops prepared for the conference slate in State Gym. I’ve heard stories from those days about certain times during the week when the athletic department would shut off electricity in the Jacobson Building to save money.

The great Dan McCarney tells stories of visiting frat houses to beg ag business majors to attend next Saturday’s game.

I'd like to hear more stories around things like this. Insanely different time. Imagine the amount of people standing around the State Gym track during Hoiball.

Mercifully, Iowa State did not play the undefeated, national championship 2005 Longhorn squad that beat Big 12 North champs Colorado 70-3 in the league’s championship game.

I was in school during these years and this made me laugh. Just reminds you how these mega-conferences can help a team look decent with scheduling. The years we looked alright were also years we didn't play TX/OU in conference.

 

[clonedude]

My column on what I believe will be Texas' final game ever in Ames.

WILLIAMS: Good riddance, big brother - Cyclone Fanatic

We all can look back on our lives and recall somebody we idolized during our childhood. This person, in your not-yet mature mind, was larger than life. They looked cool when they walked. They exuded confidence, smiled with a swagger and captured the attention of all upon walking into a room...

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You ended by saying that Texas won’t be missed, which I technically agree with, but their money and influence definitely will be…. we can never deny that fact. TX and OU move the needle, no matter how much we might wish they didn’t.

The Big 12 will be much weaker without them. That’s a fact. Sucks, but still doesn’t change the facts.

College athletics is becoming more and more less attractive to me, and many others I know. We generally are caring less and less. And we can thank TX for that. If they want to ruin college athletics, so be it.

 

[KnappShack]

Great read!




I'd like to hear more stories around things like this. Insanely different time.




I was in school during these years and this made me laugh. Just reminds you how these mega-conferences can help a team look decent with scheduling. The 'years' we looked alright were also years we didn't play TX/OU in conference.

I remember doing some stationary bike work and timing the players as they ran 40s.

JTS wasn't anything like today and you couldn't give tickets away.

Then and now are different worlds. We all need to forgive Jim Walden. God would've had trouble putting together back to back winning seasons with those facilities and support.

 

[cyclone1209]

Texas sucks. That's all.

 

[Farnsworth]

And Oklahoma … You are nothing but a convenient pawn in their game.

I guess I wonder how you write this same article about final game with OU. Texas is seen as the ******* in all of realignment and for good reason, but OU was a Big 8 member and turning their backs on everything for who again, Texas, wtf.

 

[cyatheart]

I will miss them, but I live in Austin. I liked playing them. Sort of fun seeing them roll into jack trice. Ou and Texas games at home are a little more special.

 

[Farnsworth]

I remember doing some stationary bike work and timing the players as they ran 40s.

JTS wasn't anything like today and you couldn't give tickets away.

Then and now are different worlds. We all need to forgive Jim Walden. God would've had trouble putting together back to back winning seasons with those facilities and support.

Reminds me of this poster my wife got me for a present one year.

 

[fcclone]

I guess I wonder how you write this same article about final game with OU. Texas is seen as the ******* in all of realignment and for good reason, but OU was a Big 8 member and turning their backs on everything for who again, Texas, wtf.

Tipped his hand already, calling them a pawn.

 

[RonBurgundy]

uhh, we better win now, or this column kinda feels dumb.

 

[deadeyededric]

I will miss them, but I live in Austin. I liked playing them. Sort of fun seeing them roll into jack trice. Ou and Texas games at home are a little more special.

You have to have teams in your league you hate or it's not nearly as fun.

 

[ClanCy]

Wish this game meant more.

 

[nfrine]

The whiney bastard Horns may be a better fit in the B1G. That has worked well for Nebraska.

 

[jctisu]

uhh, we better win now, or this column kinda feels dumb.

Why is that? Win or lose it doesn't change anything that CW wrote. We have been even with them on the playing field in the last decade.

 

[awd4cy]

Goodbye Texas. Hello G5 conference that never has a chance at making the playoff and makes us about 30 million less per year. Yay!

 

[JM4CY]

Whorns Down.

 

[jctisu]

Goodbye Texas. Hello G5 conference that never has a chance at making the playoff and makes us about 30 million less per year. Yay!

The problem with this line of thought is that you act like Iowa State has a chance at the playoff right now the way it is…

Unless we go undefeated we likely aren’t/weren’t ever getting in regardless because we don’t move the needle nationally. And since we’ve had SOOOO many undefeated seasons in our programs history, we are getting hosed here. Hell even if you want to go 1-loss Big 12 champion and we’d make it in. Well I will say the same thing. We’ve done that SOOOOO many times in our history.

The money part absolutely, and that sucks a lot. We still don’t know how that will shake out. But this whole good luck getting into the playoff in the new Big 12 is just putting up an argument that we hardly if ever will have to deal with anyway.

Edit: I will add that if the CFP does move to 12 teams I could make the argument OU and Texas leaving may actually make this easier for us to make the CFP because at 12 teams, winning the new Big 12 (which will absolutely still be good enough to justify this) probably sneaks you into the field or at least gets you right there depending on your record. Now we don’t have to go through OU though.

 

[intrepid27]

You have to have teams in your league you hate or it's not nearly as fun.

That's why we are getting BYU.

 

[CyBobby]

I told a friend of mine, who is an ISU Alum while we were working out at the gym....."When Matt Campbell came to ISU"...."MATT WAS THE HUNTER AND NOW HE IS THE HUNTED."

I sincerely think that we will summon up enough courage and strength to send the Horns home with a LOSS...

And remember...GO CYCLONES!!