The players need to know....

[livinthedream]

Not only are our fans there, they are there sometimes days ahead of the game waiting for our team to be there. I remember from living in willow hall a couple years ago that on thursday you could always tell there was a game that saturday by the noise from some of the 'early' tailgaters who would stick around for 2 days waiting for the game. I also know that we have not just several, but several hundred or several thousand fans who stick around until the players, band, cheerleaders and every other student who is on the field for gameday has left the stadium. Especially this year, there was a large contingent of people who would come to the corner where everyone leaves the field to congratulate everyone, no matter if we had won or lost. Yes, we may not always win, but that group of fans has been, and I believe allways will be, there to support the team. I haven't ever heard them yell out "go chizik" or "go mac" at the end of the games, it has always been "go Brett" , "go Ryan" ,"go Shaggy", "go Austen" . I personally couldn't care if we decided to let whichever freshman gets stuck with the job be the coach. We aren't there for the coach to whom this may be just another job, we are there for the team, we are there for those who know what it is to be a Cyclone.

+1

 

[jsmith86]

Thanks. You know, I've been here for two (soon to be three) head coaches, and to them it has always seemed like just a job. To the players that I've had classes with, it is MUCH more than that.

 

[MontyBurns]

The players had something to do with it, but Mr. Pollard is the one who really drove people into the stands.

No, Pollard wasn't. He may say he is, he may even believe it (actually I'm sure he believes it), but it isn't so. I was going to ISU football games long before Pollard got here and I'll be going to them long after he's gone. Just like 99.9% of the rest of the fans.

 

[Wesley]

For the Mizzou game, fans wanted to help the players out and just showed up to support them. Not a bad fanbase at all.

 

[tazclone]

No, Pollard wasn't. He may say he is, he may even believe it (actually I'm sure he believes it), but it isn't so. I was going to ISU football games long before Pollard got here and I'll be going to them long after he's gone. Just like 99.9% of the rest of the fans.

99.9% weren't going to the games before Pollard got here even when we were winning. Need I remind the Mizzou game when we had theBig 12 North on the line.

I amnot saying Pollard is resposible for putting fans in the stadium but he has done a wonderful job marketing. Not to mention the fact that fan support was going down in Mac's last year. The chizik hire energized the fan base and sold hope

 

[Landshark]

The players had something to do with it, but Mr. Pollard is the one who really drove people into the stands.

Leonard Johnson kept this 36 year old man in the stands and going to games.

If this young man leaves it will break my heart. I love this freshman class, it kills me they have to go through this, they don't deserve it. By far the best frosh class in the history of ISU.

 

[CycloneErik]

I had a discussion with a Hawk at work who believes that Cyclones are the more fair-weather fans, until he admitted that Hawk fans don't show up when the team is losing.

We showed up in the cold for a team that was 2-10 because we care, fair weather or foul, win or lose, about our Cyclones.

Guys, if you stay, you have a chance to become legends here. The team that bonded together when their coach ditched them. The team that went from 2-10 to a bowl game. The team that never quit on themselves or on each other.

Stick around, and you will be the ones that drive something special. I know two folks in Section 18 that are ready to go right now.

 

[jsmith86]

I know about 300 people who sit at the North endzone who can't wait for it to be august again.

 

[CycloneErik]

I know about 300 people who sit at the North endzone who can't wait for it to be august again.

You sit in the Jake?

 

[cyfan50438]

There are a ton of young talented players on this team. They have plenty of opportunity to win games next year. Just take a quick look...

North Dakota State
Iowa
@ Kent State
Army
Kansas State - Arrowhead
@ Kansas
Baylor
@ Neb
@ A&M
Colorado
@Mizzou

If our staff was still here with all these redshirts coming in and the younger players involved I would have thought at least 6-7 wins next year. But there not so we need to find someone that can lead this team asap.

I don't hope to be negative but I only see two sure wins (North Dakota State and Army) and 2 games that we could win but will go either way (Kent State and Colorado) and 4 games where we are an underdog but will probably end up losing but will be close (Iowa and Missouri and maybe Kansas and Kansas St) And our chances are probably not good on Nebraska, A&M and Baylor. so best case record of 8-3 probably won't happen, I am looking at 4-7 with the worst case scenario of 2-9.

Either way my butt will be parked in Section B rooting for my team on game day.

 

[jsmith86]

You sit in the Jake?

Nope...A little closer to the field.:biggrin:

 

[CycloneErik]

Nope...A little closer to the field.:biggrin:

The bandwidth on the subtlety was too much for my processor to handle:no::wideeyed:

 

[jsmith86]

The bandwidth on the subtlety was too much for my processor to handle:no::wideeyed:

We make a lot of noise? That help?

 

[CycloneErik]

We make a lot of noise? That help?

I'm not in the varsity guessing group.:wink: