The Truth (with no dare involved) .........
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Grew up a hawk fan. Decided Iowa didn't have the academics I was looking for (I am an EE). Fell in love with the campus and the people at ISU and decided I was going there. Didnt even visit anywhere else or apply anywhere else. ISU was cost effective plus I got the Hixon Scholarship so that was a huge plus going in.
Once I decided I was going to ISU (jr - sr year in high school) I started cheering for ISU and hating the Hawks. I also worked for the video crew in Hilton as well as the setting up the bball floor for two years while I was in school.
Once I decided I was going to ISU (jr - sr year in high school) I started cheering for ISU and hating the Hawks. I also worked for the video crew in Hilton as well as the setting up the bball floor for two years while I was in school.
Went to school at ISU starting in '81, after getting out of the service. Wanted an EE degree and my younger bro was going there too, so we roomed together. Bought season tix for football and basketball. Dwayne Crutchfield was in my Poli Sci class. Watched him beg the prof for a D. Got to watch Johnny Orr basketball and was hooked.
Those guys anchored the best defensive line ISU ever had!! To bad Mike doesn't enjoy sharing his football past. I hope he at least remembers his educational experience fondly, I know I do!
Joe Henderson and Sylvester Nickerson cheated off of me for a final exam. I didn't have the heart to tell them it was a Red/Blue exam.
I was in the marching band from 93 to 97 and the pep band until 98.
Memories:
1993- ISU beating #18 Kansas State at Cyclone Stadium. I froze during that game, but wouldn't trade it for anything.
1995 - Meeting Coach Mac before the season began. I maintain that man could fire anyone up about cleaning a toilet with a toothbrush.
I ended up sitting behind Marcel Howard in several classes...never saw the blackboard or the instructor on those days...
I also traveled to Dallas, Detroit and San Antonio for the NCAA Tournament. I remember the energy and excitement of being there with the team..that is why I still love the tournament to this day.
There are several Trick or Beering stories that I don't feel comfortable sharing...but I can say that Coach Mac, Coach Floyd and Coach Fennelly were extremely gracious hosts. Gene Smith, however...uh....not so much...
Memories:
1993- ISU beating #18 Kansas State at Cyclone Stadium. I froze during that game, but wouldn't trade it for anything.
1995 - Meeting Coach Mac before the season began. I maintain that man could fire anyone up about cleaning a toilet with a toothbrush.
I ended up sitting behind Marcel Howard in several classes...never saw the blackboard or the instructor on those days...
I also traveled to Dallas, Detroit and San Antonio for the NCAA Tournament. I remember the energy and excitement of being there with the team..that is why I still love the tournament to this day.
There are several Trick or Beering stories that I don't feel comfortable sharing...but I can say that Coach Mac, Coach Floyd and Coach Fennelly were extremely gracious hosts. Gene Smith, however...uh....not so much...
Balrog,
how is it you started this thread 2 years ago and you only have 400 some posts? I swear there are a couple hundred in this thread alone easy.
how is it you started this thread 2 years ago and you only have 400 some posts? I swear there are a couple hundred in this thread alone easy.
Born and raised in the belly of the beast known as eastern iowa. Was raised a hok fan but went to wrestling camp at ISU and always liked ISU. Came to ISU and worked at Cyclone Stadium (now Jack Trice) but being a hok fan sat in the maintenance offices and watched iowa on TV instead of ISU in the stands. Converted fully to the cyclones during the 0-10-1 season and have never looked back. Guarded Thigpen and Bayless at the Rec and stole the ball from both(not bad for a wrestler) and met Tinsley a few years after he left through a mutual friend. Had an interesting conversation with him that I prefer to forget.
Best and most importantly...grew up a ton and met my wife and we had our oldest daughter while at ISU. Not sure where I would be today if it wasn't for ISU and that life change.
Best and most importantly...grew up a ton and met my wife and we had our oldest daughter while at ISU. Not sure where I would be today if it wasn't for ISU and that life change.
This is definitely an interesting thread. Here is my two cents worth.
My family is actually from Iowa, but I was born in Seattle, WA. My parents moved back so I could attend kindergarten in the mid '80's, not far from Ames. A neighbor kid in my class was a big Iowa fan. So that is where I was leaning toward. In the first grade, our class was split into groups for some reason. He was of course put into the Hawkeye group and I was put into the Cyclones group. That was the first part that made me become an ISU fan. (Its crazy, I know!)
That same year my mother went back to school for her degree in education, and she went to ISU. I believe it was the following summer, she brought me to one of her classes. I recall parking near Jack Trice and riding the CyRide to her class where I met one of the baseball players in her class. I've always been a huge baseball fan. I thought that was one of the most amazing things during my first 8 years of my life. That was the final straw.
I went to a number of Cyclone Baseball Camps as a kid when Bobby Randall was coaching. I thought Cap Timm was an amazing baseball facility. Boy was I wrong. I experienced severe home sickness that first camp, at age 10, in one of the dorms that has since been imploded. My first game I attended was a men's basketball game, not sure the year, but ISU lost to Nebraska during the early Hoiberg days. My first football game was the last game of the 1997 season against Kansas State. Froze my butt off!
Went to and graduated from UNI because I thought I would try something new, since I basically grew up going to Ames. I loved everything about UNI. Since I graduated from college and moved to Omaha, I would attend a football game a year and a basketball game if I was lucky, until this year. Became season ticket holder for football for the first time and we are looking forward to a number of years going to football games. If I could make it back for more basketball games, I would sign up for those too.
My family is actually from Iowa, but I was born in Seattle, WA. My parents moved back so I could attend kindergarten in the mid '80's, not far from Ames. A neighbor kid in my class was a big Iowa fan. So that is where I was leaning toward. In the first grade, our class was split into groups for some reason. He was of course put into the Hawkeye group and I was put into the Cyclones group. That was the first part that made me become an ISU fan. (Its crazy, I know!)
That same year my mother went back to school for her degree in education, and she went to ISU. I believe it was the following summer, she brought me to one of her classes. I recall parking near Jack Trice and riding the CyRide to her class where I met one of the baseball players in her class. I've always been a huge baseball fan. I thought that was one of the most amazing things during my first 8 years of my life. That was the final straw.
I went to a number of Cyclone Baseball Camps as a kid when Bobby Randall was coaching. I thought Cap Timm was an amazing baseball facility. Boy was I wrong. I experienced severe home sickness that first camp, at age 10, in one of the dorms that has since been imploded. My first game I attended was a men's basketball game, not sure the year, but ISU lost to Nebraska during the early Hoiberg days. My first football game was the last game of the 1997 season against Kansas State. Froze my butt off!
Went to and graduated from UNI because I thought I would try something new, since I basically grew up going to Ames. I loved everything about UNI. Since I graduated from college and moved to Omaha, I would attend a football game a year and a basketball game if I was lucky, until this year. Became season ticket holder for football for the first time and we are looking forward to a number of years going to football games. If I could make it back for more basketball games, I would sign up for those too.
I don't know for sure Jer, but you are right!!!
I have to run to an appointment at 5:00, but I can't wait to get back and ask some of these great poster's some questions.
I can't help but respond because there are some great stories on how people became Cyclones.
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO CYCLONES:yes:
Interesting how many grew up iowa fans then joined the good guys, I am in that group. Went to ISU for Ag and because most of my friends went there.
I know a former basketball player and have met a few others.
Most interesting story was running into a former head basketball coach in Vegas 5 or 6 years ago. He bought me and my buddies a beer and told me "I'd have one with you but I gave it up because I get into too much trouble when I drink". Talked to him for about an hour and heard some great stories. Don't get any ideas, he wasn't partying, it was during the afternoon in a hotel lobby.
I know a former basketball player and have met a few others.
Most interesting story was running into a former head basketball coach in Vegas 5 or 6 years ago. He bought me and my buddies a beer and told me "I'd have one with you but I gave it up because I get into too much trouble when I drink". Talked to him for about an hour and heard some great stories. Don't get any ideas, he wasn't partying, it was during the afternoon in a hotel lobby.
Well if i had to thank one person for making me a cyclone fan it would be jake sullivan..i was just starting to get into sports expecially basketball and he was so much fun to watch. he probably saved me from being a hawk fan cuz my whole family is pretty much hawk fans. So thank you jake
Thanks for posting in the "Truth"
with no dare thread.
I won't be responding to all of the poster's of last night and today, because I don't want to run the thread in the ground.
However, I appreciate all for responding this time around as well as two years ago.
I just think it is nice to know of a person's relationship to the program so that when you see their avatar, you'll have a story to relate it to.
I plan on "dredging" it up in two years again.:twitcy:
Thanks again to everyoine for sharing their stories and experiences.
GO CYCLONES:yes:
with no dare thread.
I won't be responding to all of the poster's of last night and today, because I don't want to run the thread in the ground.
However, I appreciate all for responding this time around as well as two years ago.
I just think it is nice to know of a person's relationship to the program so that when you see their avatar, you'll have a story to relate it to.
I plan on "dredging" it up in two years again.:twitcy:
Thanks again to everyoine for sharing their stories and experiences.
GO CYCLONES:yes:
Back in 1976, when they were finishing the new stadium, there was a movement back then to name in Jack Trice Stadium. Didn't work then, but I took a picture of the stadium with a sign in front saying "Jack Trice Stadium" and sent it to Donald Kaul at the Register. He printed it in one of his columns.
I've been a fan pretty much as long as I can remember, but I had split loyalties as a kid. Mom went to Iowa, Dad went to ISU. My mom was actually the bigger sports fan, but I always rooted for ISU when they played. I was a die hard Hawkeye 363 days a year and a die hard Cyclone 365. I probably followed Iowa football a little closer than ISU football and ISU basketball a little closer than Iowa basketball, although I was passionate about both teams in both sports. This probably had more to do with the fact that we would go to Iowa football games and ISU basketball games.
I had visited both campuses several times and just always felt a tighter connection to Iowa State. The college and the community were better fits for me than Iowa ever was. I applied to both colleges, but knew I was going to choose Iowa State. Once I set foot on campus here, I was unable to cheer for Iowa ever again.
I had visited both campuses several times and just always felt a tighter connection to Iowa State. The college and the community were better fits for me than Iowa ever was. I applied to both colleges, but knew I was going to choose Iowa State. Once I set foot on campus here, I was unable to cheer for Iowa ever again.
I came from a family of Hawkeye fans, but I found my own nitch late one night. As a kid I used to watch ISU football game replays on sunday night (10:35 on channel 5 if i'm not mistaken) back in the 80's. Thats one of my favorite memories growing up. Growing up on a farm and spending a lot of time by myself, it sorts fit who I was...doing my own thing and taking in a game with no one else around.
The sparse crowds and the astroturf of Cyclone Stadium were pretty much the lasting memory of those days. That's all I got to say about that.
My middle school took us on a field trip to Hilton coliseum back in 89(?) and I got to see the locker of my favorite ISU basketball player. Victor Alexander. I thought that was freaking awesome!
The sparse crowds and the astroturf of Cyclone Stadium were pretty much the lasting memory of those days. That's all I got to say about that.
My middle school took us on a field trip to Hilton coliseum back in 89(?) and I got to see the locker of my favorite ISU basketball player. Victor Alexander. I thought that was freaking awesome!
