Originally Posted by isucyclone4 
well that is your opinion and you are, well, wrong. the MAJORITY of Iowa State fans are saying that we will hover somewhere in the 5-7 area this. very few are saying that we will be 7-5 or better...whereas pretty much year in year out when august rolls around all the hawk fans and boards seem to stop being so quiet and talk up 9, 10, or 11 wins and a BCS bowl game no matter the year or team they try to predict. And every QB they think will be a heisman candidate for them, drew tate and jake christensen? really? I don't think I heard any Iowa State fans dumb enough to say Bret Meyer was gonna be in the heisman hunt. Overall, we are just more realistic. Once we do have bowl game and big 12 championship game success, then I am sure our heads will be more inclined to be in the clouds like hawkeyes, but until then, we are the realists. Not that I wouldn't mind going to KC or Houston and BCS bowl games and drinking that cardinal and gold koolaid double fist style baby!
This is also your opinion, and that's cool.
I'm just stating a fact. Iowa has had higher expectations over the past 8 years for good reason. Four straight January Bowls, 3 straight 10 win seasons, and 2 Big Ten Championships in 3 years gave Hawkeye fans big reason to hope big. I don't think it's being idiotic to expect big things based on the recent past.
That being said, I think you will be hard pressed to find any Iowa fan this year expecting to do anything special, and if you do find them, they will be similar in numbers to those
ISU fans who were/are hoping for a 10 win season this year.
Look at it this way. Remember when
ISU was winning Big 12 championships in basketball, and really making serious runs in the NCAA Tournament? That built up high expectations in Cyclone country, where every year was a Tourney year, and every year was a competition for the B-12 Title.
The past few years have been the same for Iowa fans and their football. Now that it's been 4 years removed from the last Big Ten Title, you aren't hearing the BCS predictions nearly as much.
