The Truth (with no dare involved) .........
- Thread starter Balrog
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Dustinal, thanks. I hope you got my response. That message got hit by my pop-up blocker. (I am very new to this)
Walden was a good guy. never really got a chance at isu. had to deal with a trashed program with scholarship penalties thanks to criner. no support from the athletic department. no financial support from fans. The perfect example of what happens when apathy truly sets in.
I was in the end zone probably 20 rows up. Befriended a waitress at the bar outside the stadium before the game. Payed for one beer drank free the rest of the night. Good times.
OH and the hole Billups had was HUGE. Saw it open up from where I sat and knew he was gone.
OH and the hole Billups had was HUGE. Saw it open up from where I sat and knew he was gone.
I am sorry. I am going to hate saying this but I am not familiar with the game or its outcome.
That is exactly what I am talking about. How could you possibly ever forget that? I'm getting schmaltzy but I don't care. Those are the kinds of things that the people of this University really do take to heart.
Go Cyclones.
The dude hanging from the street light over the bon fire on Welch Ave. during the 1988 VEISHEA riots...was not me.
I was out of the state at the time and even being in Illinois I got the impression that he never really had a chance either, but I was not here, nor was I close to the situation.
I was taking a girl home from a party my sophomore year ('04) and this guy who lived on her dorm floor kept following us and tried to pick a fight with me. As we were walking down Welch, I saw Nik Moser and Ellis Hobbs. It was the night after that crazy NIU game in '04, and I said "Hey, guys this guy said ISU football was a bunch of stupid n-words". Two hrs later, the kid shows up at my door (i have no idea how he found it) with a black eye, and tried to fight me. I just locked the door and ignored him. He already suffered enough beating for one night. That'll teach him to ****-block.
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I am a third generation student, lifelong fan. In the marching band. I also work in the athletic deparment.
Long-time cyclone fan but didn't go to school there. Lived in Ames with my wife while she went to ISU...great times...loved Ames. Did have to talk Hurl Beechum out of kicking my friend's *** at a strip bar one night.
Wife does the pre-game weather for Cyclone radio and on the scoreboard prior to games.
Wife does the pre-game weather for Cyclone radio and on the scoreboard prior to games.
Born in Ames, born a Cyclone!!!
Started going to games at age 7 in '79.
My dad had an ISU bus, it was awesome....he sold it when I turned 16.:sad:
Attended Johnny Orr basketball camp from '85-'89, loved staying in the dorms for a week....Lafester was a great counselor there, Johnny gave great motivational speeches, especially about the dangers of drug use.
Frosh year at ISU I took Basketball 101 with Coach Krafcism (sp), I beat out a freshman ISU basketball player named Washington from the New England area in every contest (hot shot, free throw, 3 point and lightning), he transferred after 1st semester...I would too after getting beat by a farm boy from Story City.
Otherwise, I know a guy who sleeps with a woman in the business dept. at ISU, but just don't tell his wife.:biglaugh:
Started going to games at age 7 in '79.
My dad had an ISU bus, it was awesome....he sold it when I turned 16.:sad:
Attended Johnny Orr basketball camp from '85-'89, loved staying in the dorms for a week....Lafester was a great counselor there, Johnny gave great motivational speeches, especially about the dangers of drug use.
Frosh year at ISU I took Basketball 101 with Coach Krafcism (sp), I beat out a freshman ISU basketball player named Washington from the New England area in every contest (hot shot, free throw, 3 point and lightning), he transferred after 1st semester...I would too after getting beat by a farm boy from Story City.
Otherwise, I know a guy who sleeps with a woman in the business dept. at ISU, but just don't tell his wife.:biglaugh:
The guy you are referring to lived on my dorm floor out at Storms Hall at the towers. I guess I should say the late Storms Hall as is it is no longer. It was 5th floor Nielsen. I can only remember his first name was Nick. One crazy dude.
That was quite a VEISHEA. Johnny Orr coming out to break up the riots was unreal. Not a real brightspot in ISU history.
I lived next to John Neal my freshman year, I graduated from ISU where I played on the club baseball and hockey teams, Al Murdoch is a great man. I have been a season mens & womens bball & football season ticket holder for the past 7 year.
Love Al Murdoch. I remember the Hockey Club giving blood the first year of it's existence to help defray costs. That team gave blood in more ways than one. Those kids had a lot of kahones.
Go Cyclones.
Sometime I would like to hear how Coach Orr ran his camp. I wish I knew him as well as you do. He seems to be all about young people.
Go Cyclones. :yes:
This is a really great thread.
Current student and father went to ISU. We didn't get to see hardly any games on TV in eastern Iowa, but my parents took me to games quite a bit. I was at the snow game against Colorado like 15 years ago, or whatever it was. I don't really remember it, but I'm told that I had a hell of a time walking up the ramp in Jack Trice in my snow pants. The wind got the best of me.
Current student and father went to ISU. We didn't get to see hardly any games on TV in eastern Iowa, but my parents took me to games quite a bit. I was at the snow game against Colorado like 15 years ago, or whatever it was. I don't really remember it, but I'm told that I had a hell of a time walking up the ramp in Jack Trice in my snow pants. The wind got the best of me.