Are we the medias favorite team?

cyclones12321

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I swear you can't watch any game these days without hearing isu randomly brought up in it. Seems every person on espn anyways has isu as their favorite team to watch. Got to love it, constant advertising for us and good for recruiting. Only team i can think of brought up as much as isu is Kentucky. Have to think recruits are getting our fun style of play and constant attention being drilled in their heads. When comparing fast fun styles of play to football we are the oregon of football. When does nike want to do a huge endorsement with us like oregon.
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With the TV guys tonight, I'd say yes. Felt a little strange when they were heaping praise on us while KSU was hanging close or had the lead. Watched the KU/OU game last night and Musburger was pumping our sunshine pretty hard as well.

Most of it is deserved, cause what's not to like? It may take a bit of getting used to after years of the Dangerfield treatment.
 

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ESPN is blowing us up. I don't fully buy it though. Since they're playing so many big 12 games, I think they're trying to pump us up to make the conference race more interesting. KU just winning the league every year could get boring to a disinterested fan of a team in another conference.
 

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Also when teams around the country are struggling to score 50 in 40 minutes, watching the Cyclones put up 60+ every night is a breath of fresh air.
 

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We aspire to be champions, not media darlings.

That being said. It's pretty awesome to hear Hoiberg/Hilton/Cyclone basketball being talked up on the ESPN family of networks more and more. I think they realized only talking UK gets old.
 

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Every basketball game I have watched since the ku game we have been mentioned. I love it! Gameday was huge for us.
 

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I would agree, but I think it has to do a lot with the TV contract....they are self-marketing the games they are showing, but we will take it. Much better than where we came from just 4 years ago.

Remember CFH first year, all the games the team could not hold on to second half leads and some fans were thinking that was going to be how it was....
 

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We are the hot name right now. It's becoming quite clear that Fred's built something powerful that isn't going away.

I've only been tuned in for a few seconds of Iowa-Wisconsin, but I expect that we'll come up in that one, just like we did in Pitt @ Duke.
 

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Over the long haul? Probably not.

Holberg's story is intriguing, and his style/approach is too.

I think there's something there where it's easy for them to play the NBA speculation pretty easily, which makes the story interesting to bigger markets.
 

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I would agree, but I think it has to do a lot with the TV contract....they are self-marketing the games they are showing, but we will take it. Much better than where we came from just 4 years ago.

Remember CFH first year, all the games the team could not hold on to second half leads and some fans were thinking that was going to be how it was....

This.

ESPN has the Big 12 TV contract for bball = ESPN love fest for ISU and the Big 12.
FOX has the Big 12 TV contract for football = ESPN meh the Big 12, especially meh ISU.
 

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We are the hot name right now. It's becoming quite clear that Fred's built something powerful that isn't going away.

I've only been tuned in for a few seconds of Iowa-Wisconsin, but I expect that we'll come up in that one, just like we did in Pitt @ Duke.

They gave us props for the win at halftime. Suck it Hawks
 

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Early in the KU-OUT game on Big Monday, it seemed like announcers mentioned Iowa State as much as either of those teams. Or maybe I just happened to notice it more when they did. And it makes some sense, since KU had just come off a schooling two days earlier.