*** Official IOWA STATE vs Memphis Liberty Bowl Game(Day) Thread ***

ISUTex

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But it really is an exhibition game. The game is a reward to players for having a good year. Coaches want to win because their contracts typically have an incentive clause for bowl wins. The game gives fans the opportunity to take a small vacation to watch the team play one more game for the season.

A team’s success or failure for the following year has no merit on the outcome of a mid level bowl game. But a NY6 game can be meaningful

Does any of that matter? I don't care if they were playing at my niece's wedding dance for sh!ts and giggles. Zero yards is embarrassing.
 

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Funny to see Zuri trolling the YouTube CW lives
 
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Just want to post on a couple of other posts I saw during the game. I saw a couple of times, "We are getting worked by a less talented team." or, "We are the more talented team, but getting beat." I don't know. I think you could pick a couple of positions and we have better talent there, but over all, I would take either of their lines over ours and their linebackers played really well.

What it comes down to in my opinion, neither of our lines, D or O are even close to D1 level, let alone P5. We got absolutely worked in the trenches and when that happens, it doesn't matter what your other positions do.

I think the Dline was better than the O, but none the less, the only impact either had on the game was negative.
 

NWICY

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Ok I won’t. Along with lots of others. Don’t then complain when jack trice is empty on Saturdays

All you need is a nice day and ISU can sell 40,000 tkts. To fill you need acceptable weather, a decent opponent, and a team fans are excited about. That's why the only mbb game not sold out is the last one of the season.
 

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Why???



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This was bizarre to say the least. Cyclone fan asked where the Hawk fan was at. We all pointed at him. Hawk fan was around 4 other guys. Cyclone guy starts talking to him. Then it got heated. Lots of jawing back and forth. One guy says the hawk fan is rooting for ISU. Lots of trash talking went on. Finally Cyclone fans wife kinda walks over to him to get him to leave. Just really weird but more excitement than the game.

There is always at least one. Extra points for the face paint on someone that is all of 60 I'm guessing.
 

t-noah

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Need to land some athletic linebackers and dbs in the portal. And hopefully some o linemen
I'll reply to this. I've seen this comment a lot, specifically about the LB's.

I'm not too impressed with our LB's either. Is it the scheme, or do they seem like they just stand there and wait to be blocked or run around? Not all the time but enough to notice for gad sake.
 

t-noah

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Literally none of us give a flying **** about your schedule. This was one hell of a year, and we won 7 games when most of us thought we’d win 2-3 after the Ohio loss. Yes, it sucks getting bullied in a bowl game and it looking like the team wasn’t prepared. Know what sucks more? Only winning 4 games. Whether anyone believes it or not, this team has a bright future with the realignment, youth coming back, etc. You mention them not being a perennial top half team and having their lunch ate by Utah. The same Utah that lost to a bad NW team?

Today was a bad game. Life goes on. Yes, CMC seemed to go back to old habits which sucks ass. But at the end of the day, life goes on. At least we aren’t Iowa fans
Well some of us anyway.
 

t-noah

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I was just thinking….I believe Cyclone fans probably stepped up more financially in the last 90 days than in any time in our history from the new landscape. I literally donated more than I wanted to which isn’t a ton. Would my extra 2000 or 5000 matter? Sure maybe idk…but it didn’t show today and “keeping our guys” by donating more showed up like this today. I will continue to donate and buy tickets etc but good god I may just specify differently if this is the result for a large group of people stepping up the best they can. Sorry…rant over, don’t want to be so negative but damn
This is an honest feeling. I can relate.
 
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t-noah

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Probably a hawk fan who lived in Memphis. Most Hawk fans are too cheap to drive to an away Hawk game, let alone to an away Cyclone game.
Hawk fans like this are to be ignored. If they get in your face they rightly deserve to be kicked in the ass. I don't caare how old he is. He should know better.

Can you imagine the entitlement, the audacity, the pomposity, the plain ole 'Iowa is just better attitude' it takes to even dress this way and go to an ISU game?