Iowa State’s Most Bone-Headed Athletic Change?

[deadeyededric]

Hiring Kevin Jackson was the worst thing the wrestling program did. Bringing back the block I singlets was one of the best moves ever!

 

[deadeyededric]

I think Snyder would have been an interesting hire.

But as an ISU fan or administrator, if Fry is recommending something and said it's good for you, it's probably a trick. There's no way I'd think he would do anything nice for us.

It's hard to imagine him being able to use the Jayhawk Conference as a minor league from Ames the way he did at K-State. I think he would have done okay in Ames but I don't know that he would have had a HOF career.

 

[DesertClone1]

Gene Chizik

I gotta disagree with this one. While he jilted us and I hate him passionately. Chiz brought money to the program.

 

[everyyard]

What do you think are the worst changes within or around the various programs? Parking, game-day traditions, cutting programs, etc?

Personally;

1 - Not using running Cy enough.
2 - Getting rid of the blimp in Hilton.
3 - Getting rid of the Helmet mobile at FB games.
4 - Plan to get rid of half the big parking between Hilton and JTS (BB parking is going to suck ass).

None. Getting rid of Hamm’s beer song.

 

[Kinch]

Not filling the gopher hole or whatever that Jerry Moses tripped on.

 

[Nor'MidWester]

Not using real gold. Or not being consistent in our gold. Basically any shade of gold/yellow would be better looking yellow than the pale yellow we use randomly sometimes.

Definitely not the biggest miss but a pet peeve of mine

 

[brianhos]

All the blue in the 90s.

 

[BigTurk]

Wearing black in football

Personally I hate the black uniforms (really don’t like the any of the current football uniforms if I am being truthful). The previous uniforms were much better and the greys that were worn during Campbell’s first year were way better than the black. I know I am in the minority.

Not making hockey an NCAA sport.

Absolutely agree. A D1 hockey program would be so cool.

 

[psycln11]

Too lazy to scroll through and read all the posts, but I'm going with the hiring of Jim Criner!!

 

[Pleasanthillclone]

What do you think are the worst changes within or around the various programs? Parking, game-day traditions, cutting programs, etc?

Personally;

1 - Not using running Cy enough.
2 - Getting rid of the blimp in Hilton.
3 - Getting rid of the Helmet mobile at FB games.
4 - Plan to get rid of half the big parking between Hilton and JTS (BB parking is going to suck ass).

Adding blue as an accent color

 

[Nor'MidWester]

Shhh, we’re labeled haters if we say that. I fully agree though.

Decent sales on basketball days and that’s even questionable since most of the time people are already struggling to get there after work before tip off.

It’s not a destination place (ie concert venue) and not enough casual traffic during weeknights and summer to make it profitable, let alone a financial driver of any sort. Places with many times the realistic traffic barely survive.

Could be wrong, would be happy to be, but seems like a high risk, low reward gamble.

Malls are dying and this sounds like a glorified mall but without the metro area to support it. Then when you add that Ames has campustown, downtown Ames, and even the somerset area you got a lot of options for a smallish city to support.
Hope it works out, I'm sure it would be cool during game days

 

[CyNews]

Chose to play at the south end.
Then Wyoming selected defense.

People didn’t have the strategy stone-cold for that yet.

 

[madguy30]

I think Snyder would have been an interesting hire.

But as an ISU fan or administrator, if Fry is recommending something and said it's good for you, it's probably a trick. There's no way I'd think he would do anything nice for us.

Fry probably knew ISU wouldn't go for it since he was the one pushing for it and he still won because ISU looked stupid for not taking his advice.

LIke something Gary from Gary's Old Town Tavern would do to the Cheers crew.

 

[cyclone1306]

Not finding a way to keep the two greatest collegiate wrestling coaches ever in Gable and Sanderson.

 

[AllInForISU]

#1 Removal of the hot tub Jack Trice.

#2 Bugle

 

[jcisuclones]

I will die on the hill that the Chizik hire was not really that bad

I agree. I think if he stayed for year 3, that team still goes to a bowl game like they did during Rhoads' first year. Chiz' heart clearly wasn't here in Ames, but he wasn't a bad coach, and honestly was a pretty solid recruiter. Notice how the program started to die once Chiz's recruits left the program.

 

[cyclones500]

Hasn't Duke been like pretty much consistently good since like 1940.

Fairly steady. Wasn't in ACC until mid-'50s. 1960s had a lot of conference titles and deep tournament runs.

 

[cyclones500]

hot tub Jack Trice

Sounds like a sequel to "Hot Tub Time Machine."

(Ducks)

 

[JUKEBOX]

I gotta disagree with this one. While he jilted us and I hate him passionately. Chiz brought money to the program.

I kind of agree in retrospect. Obviously the results were poor with Eugene, but he brought in some good recruiting classes, Jack Trice was pretty full & there was excitement around the program, and he left before he did any long-term damage. Could have been a lot worse.

 

[CascadeClone]

In the moment, it was actually seen as an above average hire and a lot of national pundits really liked it.

There should have been huge red flags on a potential culture fit though. It was definitely a roll of the dice and how it was handled is actually one of the few blemishes on JP (one example being the ludicrous coin).

I think that hire was a big learning moment for JP. All the smart guys and on paper it looked great. But culture fit was garbage, and really, he was just here to put "head coach" on his resume.

Since that time, look at the hires. Much more "are they good fit" rather than "do they have the resume".