<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(garn91 @ 07-06-06 7:51 am) [post=6487]Quoted post[/post]</div><div class='quotemain'> I've been lurking on this message board and other Iowa State message boards for awhile and have come to a conclusion:
Iowa State fans are nothing but a bunch of whiners.
From the Big 12 TV package to the changes at Clear Channel Des Moines to whining on this board about not being able to find Cyclone gear in KC, whining about how anti ISU the DSM Register is, and now this.
I'm neither an Iowa or Iowa State fan and IMO, you want to know why Iowa State sports isn't taken seriously in this state? It's your non stop whining.
Steve Deace, perceived by ISU fans to be their leader, nailed it last month when he said that ISU fans need to quit their complaining and support their team. Case in point, I got dragged to Merle Hay Mall last Saturday and while sitting in the playland watching my son, I made an effort to see how many people walking by me were wearing either Iowa or Iowa State gear and in one hour, I saw one ISU shirt and that was worn by a Nigeran woman, compare that to being in Omaha on the 4th of July and Husker gear was everywhere.
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Hey garntwit.....What did you do, hop on your bosses computer on your break from flippin burgers, or do you get free access now that you have eclipsed your 15th yr working for Burger King as manager of the grill.
In all of your infinite travels, did you spend one minute at Pukeyereport.com after they won the Little 10 tourny???????? Whining because Alfraud was the best thing since the invention of the wheel and if the Bowlsby didn't take care of him, Indiana was going to steal him away???????? Did you spend another minute after the Northwestern State (14 seed) win over the overated #3 seeded EIU when the whiners once again showed up to complain that they now couldn't get rid of the red headed stepchild Alfraud because noone wants a worthless coach and their only way out was to sneak antifreeze into his orange juice slushy????? Better yet, get with any Pukeye after we light them up this Fall at the Kinnick toilet bowl on September 16th. Dairy Farmers love EIU cause they eat a lot of cheese with their WHINE. EIU fans whine more in one hour than ISU fans to in a whole season....but then again, they have such a lopsided view of themselves that they can't help but become dissapointed when they don't meet their own expectations.
Now, go take a shower and get all that burger grease off your head cause you obviously are affected by the lack of circulation to that gap between your ears.......
Now to the intelligent Cyclone fans........Another problem with the marketing side of ISU caps, cups, chairs, memorabilia, etc is the fact that the ISU expects way too much royalty fees on any merchandise with the ISU logo on it. EIU and UNI expect next to nothing compared to ISU and so it is more lucrative for a retailer to sell their products and make a little money. I have a guy who worked for me a year back that built a machine to turn thrown away bowling pins into cool basketball and football decorations that he put logo's on from all sorts of colleges, but couldn't do it for ISU because they wanted more in royalty fees then he was selling the other university versions for, which included that university's royalty fees, manufacturing fees, and his profit. I have been told after getting on stores that sell more Pukeye stuff than Cyclone that they are in the same boat........thats terrible!!!! We as Cyclone fans need to start writing checks to the university so they don't have to rely on royalty fees for a majority of their budget so they can thus drop the royalty fees, making it more profitable for a company to make ISU branded products and getting them out on an equal basis to the Community college in Eastern Iowa.
