I guess he went to the game last night. How bad would it suck if you had a top 50 player coming to watch your team and you had to give away student tickets for them to show up. Then the place was less than half empty. Then you get beat by an average team. Hopefully we wait until conference time to start getting the big time recruits to come in and see a full Hilton.
Chasson Randle at the Iowa Game
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I was at the game last night, and I would say there were no more than 5,000 people there. It's really sad....:no:
CycloneErik
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The way they were playing, and as hard as they played, I really thought they had a shot last night. I was listening on the way to work, but didn't know the results until a buddy told me at work.
These guys play hard. No doubt about that.
These guys play hard. No doubt about that.
They do play hard. I can't help but watch, because they are going to win a game they shouldn't have and I want to see it. If they had someone who could penetrate I think that would be a huge help to them offensively.
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CycloneErik
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I respect these guys. They're terrible, and they must know it, but they do not give up.
Jake Kelly could penetrate, couldn't he? They would look entirely different if he hadn't gone home (with good reason).
I've said it a million times: Most Hawk fans will not follow a losing product. They do not like to associate themselves with losing. I've always prided clone fans in that we support our team even when the programs are down.
Yes, really. The state of iowa is probably 70 percent hawk fans and maybe 30 percent clone fans (that's not counting the diehard UNI and drake fans). We don't have the number of fans you have to fill up a stadium. Hilton will never look like carver, never. The iowa program is not far removed from success and look at you're arena. If you're football and basketball teams were reversed, I would bet that kinnick would look like carver does now. You do have a lot of loyal fans, but there are many who jump on the train when the going is good. As a percentage, the cyclones have more loyal fans.
I'm not going to get into this with you in the "non rivalry forum" but tell me again how well did you sell out the Missouri game at JTS a few years ago when the winner would be the North champ?
It's true about basketball. But not football. Not even close. Of course, Iowa State has had a pretty decent run in bball since Tim Floyd was the coach so I'm not sure it says too much about the loyalty of the fans when nearly every fan can remember when ISU was the second best team in the nation.
Of course, the fact that the game was on Thanksgiving weekend and all of the students were gone had nothing to do with attendance. At least we didn't stoop to giving away free tickets and free pizza to beg folks to attend.
You couldn't fill a stadium with a conference championship on the line, you can make all the excuses you want, YOU COULDN'T FILL THE STADIUM! You can rip the Iowa basketball crowd all you want (not once have I said the crowds have been even average)
