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[AllIowaTeams]

For gawd's sake folks, when I was at ISU as an undergrad iowa was the laughing stock of the country,...... held the record for number of consecutive losing seasons. And ISU had two of the country's best coaches and teams. We were IT in the state of iowa. Of course it will happen again.

I take it you were an undergrad in the 1960's?

[terryk]

For gawd's sake folks, when I was at ISU as an undergrad iowa was the laughing stock of the country,...... held the record for number of consecutive losing seasons. And ISU had two of the country's best coaches and teams. We were IT in the state of iowa. Of course it will happen again.

actually as they like to point out they had 19 NON winning seasons. According to them there is a big difference. Stupid hoks

[CyBer]

I take it you were an undergrad in the 1960's?

I was going to guess late 1800's but you might be right.

[Clark]

The premise is simple, the best football talent is in the south. If the sec and big 12 appear to be working together to separate themselves from the rest, If successful Iowa state gains on Iowa. Not really that hard to comprehend.

Did Iowa State move to the South? Isn't ISU the northern most member of the Big 12? So Iowa is competing against other northern schools who you believe will be losing more and more talent to the South. ISU is competing against southern schools who you believe will be gaining more and more talent. How is this an advantage for ISU again?

[CarolinaCy]

The part I found most strange about that guys post was where he was talking about being at a disadvantage against the Big 12 but not the Big 10. Maybe I missed something but doesn't ISU play 9 games against Big 12 teams and 1 game against a Big 10 team? I'm not sure how that helps ISU. I think we can all agree that what ISU becomes in the future will be determined by how successful they are in the Big 12.

You are absolutely correct that a 9 game conference schedule hurts ISU, as long as everyone else is playing an 8 game schedule. If everyone goes to 9 games, as many are speculating, then that evens the playing field.

On the bolded part, I couldn't agree more as well. Iowa didn't get to be more popular in the state of Iowa through the 80s and 90s by beating ISU 15 times in a row (though that didn't hurt). They accomplished that by being successful in a nationally recognized conference. On the flipside, ISU completely sucking in a nationally recognized conference doomed us much more than our lack of success against Iowa.

[only4cy]

Plenty of stupid Hoks and closet-Hoks around here, unfortunately.

[rebecacy]

For 19 seasons, Iowa never won more than five games in a season (twice). In those 19 years Iowa won two or fewer games five times, including two zero win seasons. This streak ended in 1980 or 81 I believe. THEY WERE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL

[EddieISU]

For gawd's sake folks, when I was at ISU as an undergrad iowa was the laughing stock of the country,...... held the record for number of consecutive losing seasons. And ISU had two of the country's best coaches and teams. We were IT in the state of iowa. Of course it will happen again.

I'm assuming your talking about the early 70's....funny, my father was telling me the same thing today. Even said Florida State was in the top 5 bottom teams in the country too.

[Hawkeye11en1]

For 19 seasons, Iowa never won more than five games in a season (twice). In those 19 years Iowa won two or fewer games five times, including two zero win seasons. This streak ended in 1980 or 81 I believe. THEY WERE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL

If you put it in CAPS it makes it more CONVINCING.

[CyBer]

If you put it in CAPS it makes it more CONVINCING.

YOU ARE A STUPID HAWKEYE FAN GO BACK TO MCDONALDS.

[IsUaClone2]

I take it you were an undergrad in the 1960's?

I'm thinking the 70's. I was an undergrad in the 60's and we really were not very competitive although we thought Dave Hoppman, Tom Vaughn, or Tim VanGelder might get us there. Didn't work out.

[Hawkeye11en1]

YOU'RE A DICK !!!

See? Now I'm CONVINCED!!!!

[CarolinaCy]

YOU'RE A DICK !!!

I'm convinced.

[Hawkeye11en1]

I'm convinced.

Too late.

[CarolinaCy]

Too late.

No, I'm still convinced you're a dick.