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SI Says Cyclones Go 1-7 and 3-9
I just opened up my Sports Illustrated college football issue and it pegs the Cyclones for last in the Big 12 North going 1-7 and 3-9 overall. My guess is they think ISU will beat Texas Tech, Northen Illinois, and Northern Iowa. They say Rhoads is the up and coming coach of the conference but that he faces a tougher schedule than last year with the addition of Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. I believe the Cyclones do better than this, but it does suggest they will have to "over-achieve" to become bowl eligible.
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 Originally Posted by GlenEllynClone  I just opened up my Sports Illustrated college football issue and it pegs the Cyclones for last in the Big 12 North going 1-7 and 3-9 overall. My guess is they think ISU will beat Texas Tech, Northen Illinois, and Northern Iowa. They say Rhoads is the up and coming coach of the conference but that he faces a tougher schedule than last year with the addition of Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. I believe the Cyclones do better than this, but it does suggest they will have to "over-achieve" to become bowl eligible. Doesn't surprise me. It will take awhile before ISU starts garnering respect. I'm ok with it though. I'd rather our guys have a chip on their shoulder than the weight of the world on their shoulders like those guys over in that smelly city named after our state.
Here's to surprising everyone this year!!
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion man"
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I just opened up my birdcage and there was the Sports Illustrated College Football Issue.
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I love it, bulletin board material. Take all these predictions and blow em up and stick them in every square inch of the locker room.
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.
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It really sucks when big national publications come out and say we are going to essentially suck. What is nice, is we have grounds to dispute their predictions because our success last year. Last summer, we didn't have a leg to stand on when everyone said we were going to suck. We kind of had to just take it.
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This just in. SI is wrong. Back to you.
"Blamo"! The new CF approved swear word.
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Originally Posted by Cyhart Doesn't surprise me. It will take awhile before ISU starts garnering respect. I'm ok with it though. I'd rather our guys have a chip on their shoulder than the weight of the world on their shoulders like those guys over in that smelly city named after our state.
Here's to surprising everyone this year!! Not good enough to be named after our state. Iowa City is named after the Iowa River.
"There are five real good recruits in the state. We got three of them. One couldn’t get into school, and the other went to (the University of) Iowa...which is about the same thing." - Coach Johnny Orr
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Originally Posted by VeloClone Not good enough to be named after our state. Iowa City is named after the Iowa River. +1
 "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion man"
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Originally Posted by thatguy I love it, bulletin board material. Take all these predictions and blow em up and stick them in every square inch of the locker room. This is the correct answer. Let the national pubs and the rest of the conference underrate us at their own peril.
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Once again we are presented with a national media magazine that spends 98% of their time researching the top 25 teams and letting their interns handle the other teams.
If the injury bug hits ISU their predictions could be right. As I stated before, the difference between KU, KSU, CU, MU and ISU is very small, and anything can happen after the season starts. It just makes us mad that ISU is always the team that is picked to be the worst of these teams.
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i agree with it maybe one more win. 4-8
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Originally Posted by thatguy I love it, bulletin board material. Take all these predictions and blow em up and stick them in every square inch of the locker room. There is a fine line. You don't want to go overboard with the bulletin board material. At some point, you have to expect too much would result in the team starting to believe it.
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Originally Posted by CloneInColorado i agree with it maybe one more win. 4-8 i think we got, Northern Ill., UNI, KU, KSU, CU and can sneak one somewhere else. I'll take 6 wins.
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.
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I can see this team going anywhere from 2-10 to 7-5, just depending how good we come out of the gate. SI just provides us some added motivation to prove them and everyone else wrong.
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