Iowa/ISU at Soldier Field
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CycloneErik
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CycloneErik
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Exactly. There are a lot of businesses making money off of this game. Moving it to Chicago (or anywhere that's not the current home-and-home) is ridiculous.
If we had an NFL stadium in Des Moines, maybe that's another story. But we don't, and we're not about to build one.
What is up with the threads this afternoon? Chizik v. Gmac for the thousandth time? This wacko idea? Are there more threads like this floating around?
Stupid, stupid idea, plus it'd be like a home game for Iowa, since you know "a third of chicago are hawk fans" 
Well, considering Oklahoma has to play all there Texas series games at the Cotton Bowl in Texas it's not a horrible idea......
But yeah, it's a horrible idea.
But yeah, it's a horrible idea.
Moving our rivalry out of state is silly.
With the upcoming unbalanced schedule in the Big 12-2, I can see adjusting the CyHawk HOME game to the years we only have 4 home conference games.
With the upcoming unbalanced schedule in the Big 12-2, I can see adjusting the CyHawk HOME game to the years we only have 4 home conference games.
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That's a little different, though - it's halfway in between Austin and Norman and Dallas people couldn't give one iota about college ball - I used to live there and was driven insane by Cowboys, America's Team, the hole for God to watch - agh!
So, that game is pretty much like a fair sideshow - oh wait, it IS a fair sideshow..
ISU/Iowa could play in Des Moines - that would make more sense, but no stadium...
You guys are acting like I brought this up for a way to improve the series or something. This cannot be that difficult for you to understand. Of course nobody wants to bring the game out of state. What's that Tombstone quote?? "It's like I'm playin cards with my sister's kids or something." Wow.
One more time, I brought this up to generate ideas on possible ways this series can continue if the worst case scenario unfolds. Those of you who are saying this series is going to go on business as usual really have little understanding of the obstacles that are going to be faced in the next few years. I definitely wasn't implying that this would make the rivalry better.
All I hear on this site is how Iowa is scared of ISU and that's why we want to back out of the series and blah blah blah(even though we have pretty much righted the ship after getting killed those 5 straight years). We've already seen an extended break in the rivalry before so it's kind of funny reading posts of people saying this series will never end.
I agree it would be ideal if there were a neutral site instate to play the game. Unfortunately, there isn't. And I assume ISU wouldn't want to travel to Kinnick every season or vice versa. So if I had to choose between ending the series completely or playing at neutral field, I would pick the neutral field.
One more time, I brought this up to generate ideas on possible ways this series can continue if the worst case scenario unfolds. Those of you who are saying this series is going to go on business as usual really have little understanding of the obstacles that are going to be faced in the next few years. I definitely wasn't implying that this would make the rivalry better.
All I hear on this site is how Iowa is scared of ISU and that's why we want to back out of the series and blah blah blah(even though we have pretty much righted the ship after getting killed those 5 straight years). We've already seen an extended break in the rivalry before so it's kind of funny reading posts of people saying this series will never end.
I agree it would be ideal if there were a neutral site instate to play the game. Unfortunately, there isn't. And I assume ISU wouldn't want to travel to Kinnick every season or vice versa. So if I had to choose between ending the series completely or playing at neutral field, I would pick the neutral field.
Iowa isn't scared of ISU, or vice versa. Neither school can afford 6 home games, though.
