Just my 0.02 for all you CF'ers. Take it for what its worth!
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Sorry Ace, I quit reading when you called 18-22 yr olds "kids". College students are not kids, unless it's Doogie Howser.
Exactly. The amount of fan support behind Cyclone football is far beyond what some would call a reasonable amount for a team that many fan bases would feel isn't worthy of support. Anyone who feels the need to tell us that we need to do better and we need to support them more is a ******* idiot.
A lot of people on this forum greatly overestimate how much we Fanatics actually matter in the grand scheme of things.
On the World Wide Interweb feedback and discussion from customers or fans of any product is what they like to call the "The Vocal 1%". For arguments sake, let's boost that number to 5%.
If half of us here, 2.5% of Iowa State's entire fan base, are on CycloneFanatic hating on fellow fans I would like to say those are pretty good numbers. 97.5% of the fan base is composed enough and emotionally stable enough to not be negative nancies and ***** endlessly on the Internet about "pointless things".
On the World Wide Interweb feedback and discussion from customers or fans of any product is what they like to call the "The Vocal 1%". For arguments sake, let's boost that number to 5%.
If half of us here, 2.5% of Iowa State's entire fan base, are on CycloneFanatic hating on fellow fans I would like to say those are pretty good numbers. 97.5% of the fan base is composed enough and emotionally stable enough to not be negative nancies and ***** endlessly on the Internet about "pointless things".
This is exactly how I feel.
Yes, I am one of the people who now likes to poke fun at the football program often. (I deal with stress through humor)
But I'm still a fan and I will still watch every game. If I was anywhere near the state I would go to every game like I did when I lived in Ames.
If you watch games of other teams that went 5-19 in the last few years you would not see very many people in the stands. Watch our team and you still see JTS pretty much packed. That alone says how dedicated our fans our.
But UNI is a nationally relevant team... it is a major coup that we are able to bring an elite FCS program to our front door. I think it is sad that a majority of our highest selling games are for playing UNI... we can't "Pack the Jack" for a good program but we will sure show up for a coin flip win/loss against UNI. Or maybe it is all the UNI (Hawkeyes) that are showing up in that game because they want to see ISU lose to an FCS program we shouldn't be playing to begin with.
Cool thread. I bet we see 100 more of these like the op made. Feel like we have seen this 100 times before in the last few months.
I am left wondering what most of you tell your children that participate in extra-curricular activities like sports. Do you tell them they suck and that they are wasting their time? If they suffer through losing seasons do you threaten to withdraw your emotional and financial support from them? Do you stay home from the games rather than wasting your money on admission and transportation for attending the games? Do you encourage other parents and community residents to withdraw their support from the teams?
Just wondering.
Just wondering.
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For my own kids some day? Dear Lord no. Someone else kid who I did not raise and spend countless hours and dollars on? Yes.
If I have been getting "spoiled" by the football program, I would hate to see what things will be like when the program stops spoiling us.
With that said, I would love to see the program see the success that the fans are hungry for. The enthusiasm has been there, the support has been there, we are investing more financially into the program. The cost for the product has continually gone up. To not expect results along with all of that is pretty naive. If anything I would say that that fans have been incredibly supportive. IMO if us as fans are guilty of anything it is setting too high of a bar for expectations for what the team may have been able to achieve. But to call ISU fans fair weather fans is pretty absurd.
With that said, I would love to see the program see the success that the fans are hungry for. The enthusiasm has been there, the support has been there, we are investing more financially into the program. The cost for the product has continually gone up. To not expect results along with all of that is pretty naive. If anything I would say that that fans have been incredibly supportive. IMO if us as fans are guilty of anything it is setting too high of a bar for expectations for what the team may have been able to achieve. But to call ISU fans fair weather fans is pretty absurd.
I spent my season ticket dollars on a trip to Florida over spring break, turned out to be less stress and pain than enduring the last two seasons. If I need tickets for a game here and there I'll get them for pennies on the dollar.
We have reached the point where Chizik's team was more capable of winning the next home game than CPR teams. That is the point we are starting at with UNI.
Tell you what, once they get rid of athletic scholarships, they stop paying coaches and ad's millions of dollars, and they stop charging hundreds of dollars per season ticket I will start treating the team like it is my family. Give me a break.
