Interesting to see the Sweet 16 team builds
Williams & Blum: The Monday after
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Interesting to see the Sweet 16 team builds
Yeah, that's kinda the thing about these podcasts as we know they DO have info they can't share or they have to speak in vague terms....i also recognize this is a fansite and they don't have to be true journalists (didn't CW originally say he wouldn't cover TJ due to his friendship?)
I appreciate the insights they have and are able to share.
I think this is true but would love clarity. Isn't this the true last "wild west" of NIL as this next year the revenue sharing happens? Then won't these discussions truly be "we know ISU will commit $XYZ to bball, $XYZ to football" from a budget perspective? And then non-football schools could give more to bball, but any other discrepancies would be based on school priorities?
Good to know!
I will just keep forming my own opinions based on what my eyes tell me like an actual rational person!
Purdue doing it right!
I hate that this site is full of so many people there’s the need to note sarcasm. But this is sarcasm.
Guarantees your "Culture" stays solidified with minimal outside influence.
Teams that have lots of original players have had a coach in place for a while.
Teams that have multiple transfers have a fairly new coach there.
Not breaking too much news
At the end they had shared how a few players had been sent negative messages from "fans"
I hate that for the young men...but this is the wild new world we are in. Like when Hawkins from KSU was crying and mentioned the hate he received from fans and wish the amount didn't get out...i think it also is just a weird spot for fans....we can all agree no name twitter trolls are just NASTY in all parts of life.....but I think a lot of fans also probably DO get a little more frustrated now knowing likely most on the team make over a quarter million a year and a lot of that is based on fans being asked to contribute to make that happen.
Again, I don't want the students to get this "noise"...but I think the days are gone where we just look at them as "kids" (and I'll tell ya, I think MANY of our student athletes are still wonderful people who DO want to connect with fans and kids, but the purity certainly has been clouded)
I hate that for the young men...but this is the wild new world we are in. Like when Hawkins from KSU was crying and mentioned the hate he received from fans and wish the amount didn't get out...i think it also is just a weird spot for fans....we can all agree no name twitter trolls are just NASTY in all parts of life.....but I think a lot of fans also probably DO get a little more frustrated now knowing likely most on the team make over a quarter million a year and a lot of that is based on fans being asked to contribute to make that happen.
Again, I don't want the students to get this "noise"...but I think the days are gone where we just look at them as "kids" (and I'll tell ya, I think MANY of our student athletes are still wonderful people who DO want to connect with fans and kids, but the purity certainly has been clouded)
A rational person would use the information from people more knowledgeable than them, not ignore it, but you do you I guess
Look at Iowa State top 8: two original anchors and rest are non P4 moving up. To be fair, UNLV & St. Mary's are traditionally good programs in and out of rankings.
Lipsey - ISU
Mom - ISU
Gilbert - UNLV
CuJo - Buffalo
JJ - St. Mary's
Jackson - UNC-Charlotte
Heise - UNI
Chatfield - U of Seattle
Hopefully Batemon, Mitchell class can have a couple of anchors too.
“We’re not gonna waste time analyzing yesterday’s game. We’d rather look at the big picture.” Followed by 20 minutes of analyzing the game. Lol.
The one thing about the podcast that is so disappointing... is some people dogging on the players and the players hear/read/see it.
We all love ISU and want them to win every single time they compete regardless of sport. These are 18-24 year old men and women competing their asses off. They want to win even more than we do. They wear the ISU uniform and go to battle while we watch and cheer. We need to dial it back a little when mistakes are made. Let's not go hating on them.... let's support them regardless. Let's not be A-holes. When these kids are done competing at ISU, I want them to look back on their time in Ames with good vibes for the rest of their days.
If you want to hate on athletes and their performances, channel it towards the NFL, NBA, MLB. NHL, etc.
We all love ISU and want them to win every single time they compete regardless of sport. These are 18-24 year old men and women competing their asses off. They want to win even more than we do. They wear the ISU uniform and go to battle while we watch and cheer. We need to dial it back a little when mistakes are made. Let's not go hating on them.... let's support them regardless. Let's not be A-holes. When these kids are done competing at ISU, I want them to look back on their time in Ames with good vibes for the rest of their days.
If you want to hate on athletes and their performances, channel it towards the NFL, NBA, MLB. NHL, etc.
I like the Houston and Duke makeup, need to regularly make the S16 to get to that level. 5 homegrown guys provides consistency but filling the spots as needed. 4 might be more realistic with COVID done.
You can scream that as loud as you can and we all should, unfortunately humans suck. And suck even worse behind the anonymity in social media
I bet there’s a great deal of sabotaging going on with the social media burner accounts. Like pretending to be your rival’s fanbase.
Also a bunch of degenerates with gambling addictions.
Also a bunch of degenerates with gambling addictions.
AND (going back further) ISU was ranked #5 in preseason AP poll, and a large chunk of reliable sources + bracketologists had it pegged in 2 to 4 seed range pre-November. All of that seemed within reason to most fans (even those of us who tend to be a little cautious about these things).
If Williams & Blum did "overhype," they weren't alone.
Exactly we can still call out the ******** online, but most of them are fake fans or bots. At some point players need to either realize that or get off social media if they can’t handle it.
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Not pointed at you @madguy30, but It's all such ********. To a point, I appreciate metrics (as a splitting hairs thing among equals), but all of the Team X won and moved from Q2 to Q1 and Team Y lost and dropped from Q2 to Q3 stuff is just a bunch of the tail wagging the dog. At the end of the day, ISU losing to K-State at home and @ Okla. State were just lame ass bad losses regardless of their Q rating.
I don't need a math geek telling me that Q1 is better than Q2 is better than Q3, etc. No matter how you shake it, those were two "U-G-L-Y, You aint' got no alibi" losses! I'm not mad at ISU players or coaches, they busted their balls all year. Just get sick and tired of all of the metric B.S. (regardless of whether it helps or hurts ISU). There is no glory in pummeling a lesser team to meet a metric standard, and there are no excuses for losing badly to a lesser opponent.
Had a few. Just venting.
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Is it organized left-to-right based on the minutes-per-game? Or random? Seems like it'd be the former, otherwise it'd be every original player from each school first, then maybe alphabetically.
