ISUtoBig10.com

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Originally Posted by jdoggivjc

Gimme a "P"... Gimme an "M"... Gimme an "S"...

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ewwww.....that's dis-gus-ting.

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Originally Posted by snowcraig2.0

Negative posts do nothing good for ISU. Please stop with them.

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Don't start a thread asking for comments if you can't handle it. Just because a post isn't positive, doesn't mean it's negative either.

ISU to Big 10 | Welcome

This website is an absolutely fantastic idea! Great job to all those involved!!!

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Originally Posted by jtd9046

I wasn't discounting it as a sport of ISU's dominance in it. But do you really want that to be your first foot forward in courting the Big 10? It would be the first and last step.

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Does it really hurt to point out one of our strengths? And besides, it's not the first thing on there.. it does point out our loyal fan following, which for traveling purposes does help to generate revenue for ticket sales, which would be nice for all those schools that would be geographically VERY close to us in the Big 10. Carver Hawkeye Arena would get to sell tickets for 1 game every year, instead of every other year.

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Originally Posted by snowcraig2.0

Negative posts do nothing good for ISU. Please stop with them.

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AMEN. Thank you.

Posting over and over again how it doesn't make sense for ISU to be in the Big 10, and nobody cares about Volleyball, Wrestling, WBB, etc. etc. blah blah blah doesn't do anyone any favors.

Although, if people have a concrete suggestion on something to add to the website that would look good to include.. I think this would be a good place for it.

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Originally Posted by Skyh13

Does it really hurt to point out one of our strengths? And besides, it's not the first thing on there..

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Not at all. But it WAS the first thing on there when this started. It's not now. I digress.

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Originally Posted by jtd9046

Not at all. But it WAS the first thing on there when this started. It's not now. I digress.

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Ah, I see. I was starting to wonder if that was the case. Anywho...

Nice site. Good listing of things to consider for Big 10 expansion. Not sure I can add anything to it, but I like the site and would consider sending it to JP and GG (plus Senators Harkin and Grassley) so they are aware of it.

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Originally Posted by Whin4Cy

Nice site. Good listing of things to consider for Big 10 expansion. Not sure I can add anything to it, but I like the site and would consider sending it to JP and GG (plus Senators Harkin and Grassley) so they are aware of it.

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Not a bad idea.. I wouldn't be surprised if they (more likely JP and GG) found it anyways, but still.

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Originally Posted by snowcraig2.0

ISU to Big 10 | Welcome

In a post started by timh4isu, yesterday, a bunch of reasons were posted as to why ISU should be considered for the Big 10. Within that post, there was a call for more organization in such an effort like there was in the mascot voting a few years ago.

CR.com member TravISU answered that call and created ISU to Big 10 | Welcome based on the info posted in that thread(not all posts are credited, yet, due to the late night - they will be soon) Now the challenge is to you to come up with other logical reasons and post them here (not flames). We'll get them transfered to the public site but want this community or other Cyclone online communities to source them.

No need to post about how this maybe too late or meaningless (we understand that) or that TV sets are the only possible criterion (we're looking past that to make a case).

Feel free to start with these topics
*AAU membership
*Stated criteria from the Big 10
*Wrestling's fit & the loss to that sport if ISU has to cut budget by going to a smaller conference.

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I would suggest that most people outside of Iowa think ISU is a very small school. It isn't. It is just as large as Neb and Mizzou. Seriously, even a lot of Iowa fans think ISU is much smaller than Iowa and it is not.

I would look into average ACT/SAT scores, my guess is ISU stacks up ok with the other b10 schools.

I would do some work on how many research dollars ISU brings compared to others. Lot of people have no idea ISU does research, lot of people think it is a junior college type of thing on the level of K-State.

I would also suggest showing people how many people ISU draws to home games for Bball and Football, again, most people think we draw 15K for football games.

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Originally Posted by Skyh13

Posting over and over again how it doesn't make sense for ISU to be in the Big 10, and nobody cares about Volleyball, Wrestling, WBB, etc. etc. blah blah blah doesn't do anyone any favors.

Although, if people have a concrete suggestion on something to add to the website that would look good to include.. I think this would be a good place for it.

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Let me see if I can be more clear.

Concrete suggestion: The Big 10 doesn't care about the non revenue sports. They just don't. IMO it's foolish to include that as a reason for them to come calling.

They care about cold hard cash. That should be your focus.

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Originally Posted by snowcraig2.0

Negative posts do nothing good for ISU. Please stop with them.

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Says the guy who posted a parents private post to shed negatively on a current ISU coach! :wink:

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Originally Posted by jtd9046

And many do care, but the majority don't. The fact of the matter is the Big 10 isn't going to come calling because we have a great wrestling program. Or a WBB program.

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Now that is true.

This website is actually very well done and looks professional the only thing i would add is a map of the geographic fit and some rankings of iowa state in different things

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Originally Posted by mksmith2

ewwww.....that's dis-gus-ting.

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Apparently you don't know your hockey cheers... :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by jdoggivjc

Apparently you don't know your hockey cheers... :rolleyes:

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okay...

what are they gonna do?

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