No kidding. What's worse is I have to move to Texas at the end of the year, so I'm probably only going to be able to see two games per year, IF I'm able to get up to Ames for one (fortunately, we play one game somewhere in Texas every year, so I'm at least guaranteed one)
Fair weather fans...
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No kidding. What's worse is I have to move to Texas at the end of the year, so I'm probably only going to be able to see two games per year, IF I'm able to get up to Ames for one (fortunately, we play one game somewhere in Texas every year, so I'm at least guaranteed one)
Fair weather cyclone fan.:biglaugh: That's very funny.
Please tell me when the "fair" weather was, because I think I missed it. Was it those invites to all those really great bowl games that would be an embarassment to most respectable programs?
There might have been a few years of mostly cloudy, but "fair?" There hasn't been any "fair" weather in Cyclone country for the 20 years I have been following them.
If you don't like cheering for an underdog, and being hopelessly optomistic about rooting for a potentially up and coming program, you just might be on the wrong bandwagon.
I think the coaches and players should be embarassed and ashamed of their performance so far this season. I know I am.
It's tough to be a cyclone fan at a distance, but I wear my gear and hang my posters, and it's tough to face Monday at work when some smug duck fan comes over and says "Dude, I heard you guys lost to Kent State? Ouch." Then the next week the same guy is laughing his *** off barely able to stop long enough to spit out "Northern Iowa? Seriously?" and the next guy I see says "Look at it this way, you aren't Notre Dame or Michigan, I mean, your supposed to lose most of the time, right?"
Fans should be pissed. Players should be pissed. Coaches should be pissed. Nobody should be complacent or satisfied or OK with starting this season 0-2 to this kind of competition.
Please tell me when the "fair" weather was, because I think I missed it. Was it those invites to all those really great bowl games that would be an embarassment to most respectable programs?
There might have been a few years of mostly cloudy, but "fair?" There hasn't been any "fair" weather in Cyclone country for the 20 years I have been following them.
If you don't like cheering for an underdog, and being hopelessly optomistic about rooting for a potentially up and coming program, you just might be on the wrong bandwagon.
I think the coaches and players should be embarassed and ashamed of their performance so far this season. I know I am.
It's tough to be a cyclone fan at a distance, but I wear my gear and hang my posters, and it's tough to face Monday at work when some smug duck fan comes over and says "Dude, I heard you guys lost to Kent State? Ouch." Then the next week the same guy is laughing his *** off barely able to stop long enough to spit out "Northern Iowa? Seriously?" and the next guy I see says "Look at it this way, you aren't Notre Dame or Michigan, I mean, your supposed to lose most of the time, right?"
Fans should be pissed. Players should be pissed. Coaches should be pissed. Nobody should be complacent or satisfied or OK with starting this season 0-2 to this kind of competition.
How did Troy Davis improve? And for every Ennis & Ellis you show me, I"ll show you a Meyer, Blythe, Seneca, etc...
All players who played their best games when they first played and went downhill from there....
And how about that awesome offensive line and special teams development outside of Steve Loney's years?
Key injuries prevented us from going to a BOWL... Are you refereing to the Toilet Bowl...
I'm done being nice... What the heck are you smoking??? I have the colored glasses on but we were no where near a bowl last year...
Lets rehash...
Toledo--- 3 ot game. Win by chance. Could of gone either way. They probably will beat us this year..
UNLV--- Last second stop on D.. We should of of lost...
Iowa--- Good first half. Winded seconded half. Not enough weapons. Don't tell me a healthy Stevie Hicks would of won the damn game. Poor coaching in this one.
UNI--- We should of lost to them last year. Thank god they borrowed Shaggy for that last kick.
Nebraska-- rival kept it close....
Rest of the season we got blown out after the first qrter. Oh I forgot we lost our stud CB and our stud RB. Yeah... that changed the course of the whole season didn't it..
You need to wake up.... WOW... you might not be a fairweather fan.. But uneducated. BINGO
Edit: Is your nose perminantly stuck up Dan's rear cause you bat for him way too much. He is gone.
Well, the injury thing doesn't fly too far, because our guys were healthy until the Big 12 season hit, as I recall. So I wonder how you'd explain the near-losses to a good UNI team and a pair of poor teams (Toledo & UNLV) at home.
We were not good last year, period. And we're still not good this year.
We were not good last year, period. And we're still not good this year.
Call me a fair weather fan, band wagon jumper, whatever you want. The fact is watching another pathetic season of cyclone football has gotten too painful.
I became a cyclone fan in 1994. I was 12 years old and for some reason I came to love that group of losers. I followed them through the infamous 0-10-1 season and into the McCarny eara. I've rooted my guts out for some really bad teams always thinking, "next year it will be different." But now, I'm just tired of watching horrid football. Talk of building for the future makes me want to scream and throw things. Cyclone football is always building for a future that will never come.
Now with the cyclones on the brink of another potentially winless season, I realized I can't wait for next year. Wasn't this team supposed to be much improved? Wasn't Chizik going to change everything?
This is the worst football I've seen since the mid-90s. 0-12, 1-11, or 2-10 (optimistic) is going to be a real blow for this program, and I'm not sure Chizik and co. will recover. I think we've just entered the second Walden era.
I would love to eat crow on this believe me, but I am no longer the optimist. The one consistent with cyclone football is that at any given opportunity it will tear your heart out, drag it to the thirty yard line and pooch kick it out of bounds for a penalty.
I've had enough; I'll see you all around basketball season. :sad:
I became a cyclone fan in 1994. I was 12 years old and for some reason I came to love that group of losers. I followed them through the infamous 0-10-1 season and into the McCarny eara. I've rooted my guts out for some really bad teams always thinking, "next year it will be different." But now, I'm just tired of watching horrid football. Talk of building for the future makes me want to scream and throw things. Cyclone football is always building for a future that will never come.
Now with the cyclones on the brink of another potentially winless season, I realized I can't wait for next year. Wasn't this team supposed to be much improved? Wasn't Chizik going to change everything?
This is the worst football I've seen since the mid-90s. 0-12, 1-11, or 2-10 (optimistic) is going to be a real blow for this program, and I'm not sure Chizik and co. will recover. I think we've just entered the second Walden era.
I would love to eat crow on this believe me, but I am no longer the optimist. The one consistent with cyclone football is that at any given opportunity it will tear your heart out, drag it to the thirty yard line and pooch kick it out of bounds for a penalty.
I've had enough; I'll see you all around basketball season. :sad:
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They didn't borrow Shaggy. That attempt was from over 50 yards and they barely missed. Doesn't sound like Shaggy's MO at all.
Sorry you're feeling that way already. It's not easy to be patient, but it will pay off. I believe we'll see a marked improvement in
-recruiting
-on field coaching (gotta give these guys a break)
-size
-speed
This is our best bet of building a program.You want to see us emerge from the pack of mediocrity? We have the AD and coaches in place to do it. Give it a little time. Not 2 games with someone else's players.