COLUMN: Good riddance, big brother
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Sorry but I have to disagree Johnny Majors won 13 games and went to two straight bowl games, While Playing in Clyde Williams Field....Which was an astounding feat.....
I also agree that Jim Walden DID NOT GET THE SUPPORT HE SHOULD HAVE and I was also one of those Very Few People in Attendance for those Dreadful Games.....I only missed a few home games in over 30 years!!
Actually Walden had decent fan support at the beginning. The facilities sucked, but he was the coach that started to kill the attendance when he would speak so negatively about the team he coached.
Sorry, but reality is Iowa State and the Big 12 just fall further in the arms race with the rest of college football. As long as the playoff stays at 4, all 12 Big 12 members have zero chance.
kcbob79clone
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"Texas is pompous, past its prime, tired and ungrateful."
Truer words have never been written
Truer words have never been written
The university administration played a big part in that.
With all due respect to the bulletin board crowd, I would have written this column if Iowa State was a 20 point underdog. It has nothing to do with this game. It's about the last two decades. Iowa State can lose by 30 tomorrow night and everything I wrote will still remain true. And I can guarantee you that Steve freaking Sarkisian isn't concerned about a hack from Des Moines' feelings right now when he's getting in fights with players at practice and has assistant coaches' stripper girlfriends' monkeys assaulting children.
Lol ignore them Chris. Horns down.
that is true. He gave up on the program and the administration didn't even care.
IMO this is a lot of 2000's talk. Most of the Big 12 schools have spent a ton of money over the last 15 years and have made huge upgrades. The whole arms race thing is overstated. What else do these schools need and does it lead to more wins? Everyone wants to talk about the money but what does that do for the bottom half of the B1G and SEC? Nothing! Absolutely nothing!
From a conference SOS standpoint we have lost Oklahoma and that's it. In regards to Texas, Cinci is actually an upgrade on the field and in the long run I think Houston will be too. Top to bottom the new Big 12 is actually going top be a really competitive conference and still holds P5 status. Here's the deal, until the playoff moves to at least 8 teams current Big 12 or new Big 12 won't matter. This has always been an Oklahoma or bust playoff slot.
Money in the future is going to play an important role in paying players I believe. If that happens, you will see a conference like the Big 12 fall further behind. And I would downplay how significant it’s going to be for our athletic department when they receive several million less dollars every year.
This exactly. People thinking making $30 M while Big 10 and SEC make $80-100M is going to result in ISU and the like falling further behind haven't been paying attention. For the past 20 years ISU and teams like it have had a huge financial gap with these schools while the arms race was at it's peak, yet here we are.
The arms race is largely over. Everybody has at least passable facilities. Are some way better than others? Sure, but they are no longer at a point where it is anything but a marginal factor at best in recruiting.
So in the most critical two decades of college football build-up, ISU dealt with a massive financial gap between the Big 10 and others. If ISU didn't get left in the dust during that period of financial disadvantage, it sure isn't in the next era. The marginal value of college football dollars has completely eroded. The difference will be potentially in boosters paying via NIL, but there's little ISU is going to do about that if they get $20M or $60M in media dollars.
It will be a very angry stadium tomorrow. I am guessing the most angry Texas will experience. A must win game.