Iowa State’s Most Bone-Headed Athletic Change?

[mred]

These are all sort of funny.

But boy do you all enjoy being miserable. We are coming off 5 straight bowl games, a MBB and WBB sweet 16.

Misery is part of the ISU identity. If we can't have it organically, we have to manufacture it.

 

[4cy16]

Except we weren't after him, we wanted fischer (i think that was the assistant we wanted), JO just started asking questions and then took it himself.

I thought they called Johnny to ask about Bill Frieder his assistant. Frieder got the job after Johnny left for ISU and later Frieder left for ASU and that's when Steve Fischer got the Michigan job.

 

[theshadow]

To be fair, ISU attendance at the last home series in school history was pretty good (and I don't think they knew it was the final season at that time). They drew a 756 average over the three-game weekend series. Although it was against Nebraska, who likely brought a decent contingent.

The announcement was made on April 2.

At that point, they still had home games left against Winona State (2), Grand View, Kansas (3), Minnesota, St. Ambrose, Texas (3), Western Illinois (2), and Nebraska (3).

 

[Jer]

These are all sort of funny.

But boy do you all enjoy being miserable. We are coming off 5 straight bowl games, a MBB and WBB sweet 16.

It's not about being miserable - there was enough of that naturally for decades. It's about thinking about some of the decisions that in retrospect (or even at the time) changed things either just for the sake of change or even for the worse. Clearly we're better off now, but that doesn't mean there weren't stupid decisions along the way.

 

[jcisuclones]

These are all sort of funny.

But boy do you all enjoy being miserable. We are coming off 5 straight bowl games, a MBB and WBB sweet 16.

Surprised you're not here to mention that the TJ hire was the biggest bonehead change given how pissed off you were that we fired Prohm and hired TJ.

 

[CloneFanInKC]

It says "Jack Trice Stadium" on the outside of the stadium in big, lit up letters. They have the "Jack Trice" stripes on the exterior of the Stark Performance Center. They JUST finished building a new plaza area outside the stadium that is a pretty wide open canvas. If you want a statue the size of Iowa's Nile Kinnick statue outside of the stadium so badly, I suggest forking up some cash. You can't say the athletic department, let alone the football program, hasn't done enough to honor Jack.

Show me where I said this.

 

[WalkingCY]

Show me where I said this.

They still have this up inside the stadium:

 

[BCClone]

I thought they called Johnny to ask about Bill Frieder his assistant. Frieder got the job after Johnny left for ISU and later Frieder left for ASU and that's when Steve Fischer got the Michigan job.

Could be, I remembered bill f, but Fischer was all I could think of.

 

[jcisuclones]

Show me where I said this.

Iowa State’s Most Bone-Headed Athletic Change?

Bone head decision. Frankly, f&$@in’ stupid decision. Only stadium in D1 football named after an African American and a person has to enter the stadium to see a representation of that person. (Facepalm) Maybe it's stupid that they don't have a statue or something bigger memorializing him...

cyclonefanatic.com

 

[madguy30]

Surprised you're not here to mention that the TJ hire was the biggest bonehead change given how pissed off you were that we fired Prohm and hired TJ.

There's a few that will always cling onto Mac or CPR because they beat Iowa no matter what ISU has done since, and then some will pine for Prohm or at least have a bit of 'needed one more year'-ness with it which doesn't hold a lot of weight.

 

[madguy30]

Lighting in Hilton. New lighting is just the absolute worst. Give me old Hilton lighting.

Moving the rowdy folks out of the lower sections would go with this.

 

[cycloner29]

If I remember right didn't KJ Kindler leave after she wanted to have A/C put their gym and was flat out told not going to happen? Five National Championships later.......

 

[CyGuy5]

Since this thread has some smaller gripes in it too: I know he retired, but I miss the old football PA announcer

 

[CYEATHAWK]

Surprised you're not here to mention that the TJ hire was the biggest bonehead change given how pissed off you were that we fired Prohm and hired TJ.

I'm surprised you aren't here wringing your hands that the biggest mistake made by any ISU fan was having lunch with Steve Prohm.

 

[CYEATHAWK]

Since this thread has some smaller gripes in it too: I know he retired, but I miss the old football PA announcer

And Benson Motors.

 

[Max57]

Letting Earl walk

I was going to reply, "Jim Criner", "Jim Walden". (Directly related to yours.)
Letting Earl walk was a huge mistake, not hiring John Cooper another miss.

 

[jcisuclones]

I'm surprised you aren't here wringing your hands that the biggest mistake made by any ISU fan was having lunch with Steve Prohm.

Never said he wasn't a good guy. He was always friendly to me. Sports is a business though. No results = No job.

 

[KnappShack]

In the colder months you can put beer cans in your jacket as well and as long as the DMACC baseball player who got roped into working security for fundraising doesn't see you pounding them down, or you have a whiny Karen near you, you should be fine.

That's what the woman folk are for. Beer mules.

 

[jcisuclones]

Since this thread has some smaller gripes in it too: I know he retired, but I miss the old football PA announcer

I miss his voice at Jack Trice, but I miss Gary Wade even more. The new guy is good, but its just one of those nostalgic changes that will be hard to adjust to

 

[jsb]

It's not about being miserable - there was enough of that naturally for decades. It's about thinking about some of the decisions that in retrospect (or even at the time) changed things either just for the sake of change or even for the worse. Clearly we're better off now, but that doesn't mean there weren't stupid decisions along the way.

Didn’t say there weren’t bone headed decisions. Said that we are determined to be miserable. And you, in general, seem to be focused on the negatives lately.

Put it this way, I’d bet my life that if you put up a positive post it wouldn’t have near the number of comments as this one.