Lots to go thru if you're a subscriber. I noticed Marial is listed in the most underrated column.
https://theathletic.com/900891/2019...underrated-best-coach-were-you-offered-money/

Welcome back to On That Note, a music-listening and discussion series hosted by @MeanDean, @CycloneRulzzz and me, cyclones500.

This time, in observation of National Library Month, we’ll explore songs with literary themes or based on literature; lyrical references to books and authors; and musical retellings of stories. Also, you may include group names inspired by literature. In those cases, you’re allowed to post something by tan artist already cited, as long as it's a different track.

If a literary reference isn’t obvious, elaborate when you post the sound clip.

• General OTN note: We’ve received suggestions from frequent OTN followers for music topics. We haven’t forgotten about you, look for a few in the coming weeks.

I’ll post a few of my choices in a bit. Meanwhile, let ‘er rip.

• Last week’s OTN: The Kids in the Hall

"Illinois Athletics expands beer sales to public seating areas of Memorial Stadium and State Farm Center for home @IlliniFootball, @IlliniMBB and @IlliniWBB games this fall."

"Illinois joins Maryland, Minnesota, Purdue, Rutgers and Ohio State as schools permitting in-stadium alcohol consumption. In 2017, Ohio State made a reported $1.23 million in profit from beer sales."


https://www.mlive.com/sports/2019/0...big-ten-schools-selling-alcohol-at-games.html

Looking for a recommendation for a site to share youth team photos among the parents. I would be the primary contributor of the photos. I created a Shutterfly account but it seems to want to much information about the kids. I don't need it to be a communication portal/calendar, ect. I just need to share photos. We have used the teamsnap photo feature in the past but they take forever to load and view. Any suggestions out there?

Pretty good. Focuses on Ben Askrin. I am not a wrestling fan but I do find it interesting that so many wrestlers now see MMA as the next logical step to use that skill. I also generally hate when wrestlers start out in MMA. It's hard to watch them just take someone down and hold them down for the win. Luckily they have to eventually improve in other areas and they are athletically good enough to do so. So the older they get the more watchable the fight is.

http://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/26424694/more-college-wrestlers-fighting-on

On his extension, last season, the future, next year's roster, Talen/Lindell and more. Enjoy.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/podcasts/off-the-record-steve-prohm/

A fantastic listen is the Pollard interview from Alex Halstead on CycloneAlert 247sports. Half way through is the message to fans. https://247sports.com/college/iowa-...s-facilities-Cyclone-Scoop-podcast-130810557/

A real priority this summer for Pollard is communicating this message:

"Starting to see it..." Cyclone fans a majority are awesome. We take pride in being different and are more loyal.

.."some of our fans are starting to behave in ways that our fan base likes to make fun of other fans for behaving that way"

Saw it with Matt Campbell playcalling/coordinator, saw it with men's basketball this winter, saw it last season with women's basketball.

"When you ultimately achieve the success you desire, remember who you were because that's who you still are"

Iowa State fans ran off Earl Bruce. Three 8-3 seasons in a row and ran him off. If we run off Matt Campbell or Steve Prohm because we changed, we will regret it forever.

"This is a great time to make hay" Across the board athletically, we've never been higher in the all-sports rankings. Only have finished in the top half 1 time (5th out of 10) and are currently 2nd going into spring.

JP's biggest concern right now is protecting the brand and he's "starting to see some erosion". Fans make us different at Iowa State and if we lose that, we lose the advantage over other places.

It's interesting he mentions it's not just social media. He's had donors express frustrations in person. He understands wanting to win and being disappointed during a loss. But don't be irrational.

I myself am guilty of this too, so I'll need to work on this as well. Go Cyclones!

Looking for suggestions to be funny, and could help in communicating Hoibergs change over to Nebraska. Mine would be have a thick German accent added for a bit of dark flair. Post your suggestions.

Any chance this ends up a Thursday night game?

OU up 18-7. ESPN2.

This came up in the office today. What was on the corner NW of the clock tower before Jimmy John's? Late 90s/early 2000s.

I typed 'red tape' in an email this morning and thought, where did that term come from. Of course wikipedia was where I ended up and found it interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tape

What are some other terms that you use that you have no idea where it comes from, or when you did find out you were surprised, or that you weren't using the term properly now that you know. I love this kind of knowledge.

Runzas are inherently sexual, kind of like tacos and hot pockets. I feel like Hickory Park didn’t satisfy Fred. We need to develop a food in pocket form in Ames to make us more attractive to coaches.

and check my twitter feed last night. There's a radio woman (AM1460) named Heather Burnside who is a foul-mouthed fool. Any of you followers? If so, does she act that way all the time?

Note: (I am unable to figure out the proper way to insert a pic or PDF and I can't figure out how to get to HTML here, so please see the attached pic for thre table in a readable format. Thanks, CYDJ)

A response by Stewo in another post spurred a question I am not sure has been discussed / explored here yet , or at least recently.

Is there a chance that part of the split in ISU fan base expectations has to do with some people remembering what being "Iowa State" meant "back in the day" vs. what "Iowa State" has meant in the recent past? The premise here is that what people expect might directly correlate to what they have experienced in the their "ISU life." I would like to start a conversation about what you expect and when you became an ISU fan.

Stewo showed a great reminder of the results from the Johnny years. Johnny, is mostly revered by our fan base, but his overall record was rather average. It WAS a huge improvement to what came directly before it, but it would not be acceptable to much of the fan base today.

I segmented his results by splitting out the 4 year period where he was rebuilding. 80-84 culminated in an NIT birth. Those 4 years were a steady improvement, but probably not what most people remember as the golden Johnny years. Remember also, it was harder to achieve the NCAA Tournament prior to 1985 as there were only 48 teams selected. So here are Johnny's results broken out by total and after the NCAA "breakthrough" / NCAA Tourney expansion AND then all the coaches since.

Key:
Total% - Total winning percentage
Big% - Big 8 or Big 12 conference winning percentage
BigChamp% - Percentage of years ISU won the Big 12 or Big 8 season championship
BigTChamp% - Percentage of years ISU won the Big 12 or Big 8 tournament championship
NCAA% - Percentage of years ISU was in the NCAA Tournament
Aveplace% - Average conference placement as a percentage from bottom (0%) to top (100%)

Total% Big% BigChamp% BigTChamp% NCAA% Aveplace%
Johnny Total (80-94) (14) 52% 40% 00% 00% 43% 40%
After BThrough (84-94) (10) 55% 43% 00% 00% 60% 44%
Floyd (94-98) (4) 63% 50% 00% 25% 75% 47%
Eustachy (98-03) (5) 63% 53% 40% 20% 40% 48%
Morgan (03-06) (3) 59% 46% 00% 00% 33% 44%
McDermott (06-10) (5) 46% 28% 00% 00% 00% 17%
Hoiberg (10-15) (5) 67% 56% 00% 40% 80% 58%
Prohm (15-Present) (4) 61% 49% 00% 50% 75% 54%

With no statistical significance here, I made what looked to be relatively higher than average numbers in each category red. We have steadily been getting "better" it seems. We have had more success in getting to the NCAA's and Big 12 Tournament championship games in the past 9 or 10 years.

I didn't intend for this to be a comment on the coaches or teams and don't really want to pick apart why they had lower or higher totals, etc. I'm just using the coaches as "eras" in an effort to determine if frame of reference has anything to do with your expectations of ISU basketball.

Do the old fogies who remember Johnny's years (and/or before) believe it is OK to make the tourney only 50% of the time, to NEVER win a conference championship or conference tourney championship? And likewise, do the whippersnappers only remember the recent success and conference tourney championships and wonder why we are not in the final four more often? Or maybe that only Hoiberg can do great things at ISU, when they might have been in diapers when Eustachy was crushing the Big 12? If you got started in the McDormott years and Hoiberg came along and pulled you from basketball h___, do you expect that is a regular jump that should be taken about every 5 years?

Talk amongst yourselves. Let us know your expectations and when you became an aware Cyclone Basketball fan. "I was a fan at 5 because I had a cyclone cap" is not really "aware". Try to be accurate with when your basketball awareness really happened, either year or era. ;>)

BTW, if you spot any statistical inaccuracies, just comment and I'll correct them. I looked everything up and did a quick spreadsheet, it's not likely to be perfect.

I have a family member looking at buying a used travel trailer for a permanent camping spot. I have pretty much no experience with them and am wondering, seasonally speaking, is there a good time to purchase?

I figured it would be at the end of the camping season, but somebody mentioned that now can be a good time with people trading/looking to sell older models to upgrade.

Any seasoned camping people that care to offer an opinion?

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I love movie quotes. I am guilty of being that guy who is always quoting some movie. My favorites

Funny
The truth hurts doesn't it, Hapsburg. Oh sure, maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts. Frank Drebbin

Serious

Our Scars have the power to remind us that the past was real. Hannibal Lector


Inspirational

“Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.” “Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. “It Ain't How Hard You Hit…It's How Hard You Can Get Hit and Keep Moving Forward. Rocky Balboa

I'm sure most of you have heard about the feud between Corn Growers and Bud Light over the corn syrup commercials. Here the level of pettiness that this has reached.

The National Corn and SB Growers Associations sponsors a huge grower conference every year called Commodity Classic. A good client of mine exhibits there and has a social hour at their booth 2 nights. The person that takes care of the booth for my client was ordering beer for this years event in Orlando. He ordered a keg of Abita Amber (Good choice) and a keg of Sweetwater 420.

An hour later the conference rep called him back and said they could not serve Sweetwater 420 at the conference because it goes through an Anheuser-Bush owned distributor in FL. So the Corn Growers pettiness punished a craft brewery because Bud Light made them mad.