An Iowa State Cyclone Update

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Love the report thanks Cy

On one hand though. I do really feel bad for Chizik (sp) I mean he deserves better then the bottom of the barrel. There are DII (I refuse to call it playoff series or whatever) that give more support then ISU. Heck there are some NAIA schools that seem to offer more.

 
Cy the Cyclone said:
Recruiting News

ISU has once again signed up an exciting recruiting class for the 2008 season. This year’s class includes:

Two players who didn’t play their senior year due to ACL tears

One player who lived in Holland and didn’t play football till his senior year

The 109th best player in Alberta, Canada

Two kickers….

A player recruited off his high school soccer team

And a host of other potentially mediocre athletes which are sure to keep the ISU football juggernaut rolling at half speed ahead!

Though not on the list of official recruits, there is a very exciting rumor going around that ISU is holding their final scholarship open for the nation’s #1 ranked long-snapper out of Kansas! Another coup for ISU! How could anyone not be exciting with signing the best long-snapper in the country???

Athletic Department News

According to a story in the DM Register, the ISU athletic department is broke…with no reserves available. According to most fans questioned, the ISU football team has been broke with no reserves available for the past 50 years so there is no need to become unduly alarmed.

Great Strategy…or just kind of stupid?

During a press conference yesterday, Gene Chizek had the following comment about the 2008 team:

“Not only do we have a good recruiting class…but we also have around 20 red-shirt freshmen from last year coming up. Last year we didn’t practice them…we sent them to the weight room every day during practice to bulk up and be ready for this year…these guys are a lot bigger and a lot more athletic than they were when they came to us last fall...”

Hmmm….canny strategy? After all…ISU is implementing new offensive and defensive schemes and were moving from the McCarney era to the Chizek era. Could this strategy possibly work or would it have been better to do as the wily NU HC did and throw the red shirts in for 5 plays during lost causes just to burn their year of eligibility in a blindingly ignorant display of “I’ll teach you guys to mess with me!”. Only time will tell…

Great Lines Overhead At the ISU/NU Basketball Game

ISU fans are great followers of their team, no matter how bad…and quite used to enduring insults regarding our obvious lack of athletic competitiveness. However, the NU fans at the latest ISU/NU basketball game win the “Sticking it to the ISU fans without being asses about it” award. During the first half of the game, when ISU was actually ahead by 5 points, the ISU fans started some yelling about how NU should give up on basketball and stick to football…to which the huge crowd of NU fans (all 60 of them…you guys really need to show the BB team a little more love…) started chanting “Let’s Play Baseball…Let’s Play Baseball!” Instant silence from the ISU contingent….Bravo!
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What a pathetic class Cy!! Thanks for the report and good luck in 08! :sarcasm

 
I love that I work in Ames daily and get all of the updates. I still try and wear a Nebraska polo to work at least once a week. I have a couple of patients that try and get back at me by wearing some funny shirts! The first one is "There must be a God" and then has the 1992 Nebraska vs ISU score when they beat us. The other one is the "Golden Rule" shirt of Beat Nebraska. I guess I get what I ask for!

 
JGS30 said:
Cy the Cyclone said:
Recruiting News

ISU has once again signed up an exciting recruiting class for the 2008 season. This year’s class includes:

Two players who didn’t play their senior year due to ACL tears

One player who lived in Holland and didn’t play football till his senior year

The 109th best player in Alberta, Canada

Two kickers….

A player recruited off his high school soccer team

And a host of other potentially mediocre athletes which are sure to keep the ISU football juggernaut rolling at half speed ahead!

Though not on the list of official recruits, there is a very exciting rumor going around that ISU is holding their final scholarship open for the nation’s #1 ranked long-snapper out of Kansas! Another coup for ISU! How could anyone not be exciting with signing the best long-snapper in the country???

Athletic Department News

According to a story in the DM Register, the ISU athletic department is broke…with no reserves available. According to most fans questioned, the ISU football team has been broke with no reserves available for the past 50 years so there is no need to become unduly alarmed.

Great Strategy…or just kind of stupid?

During a press conference yesterday, Gene Chizek had the following comment about the 2008 team:

“Not only do we have a good recruiting class…but we also have around 20 red-shirt freshmen from last year coming up. Last year we didn’t practice them…we sent them to the weight room every day during practice to bulk up and be ready for this year…these guys are a lot bigger and a lot more athletic than they were when they came to us last fall...”

Hmmm….canny strategy? After all…ISU is implementing new offensive and defensive schemes and were moving from the McCarney era to the Chizek era. Could this strategy possibly work or would it have been better to do as the wily NU HC did and throw the red shirts in for 5 plays during lost causes just to burn their year of eligibility in a blindingly ignorant display of “I’ll teach you guys to mess with me!”. Only time will tell…

Great Lines Overhead At the ISU/NU Basketball Game

ISU fans are great followers of their team, no matter how bad…and quite used to enduring insults regarding our obvious lack of athletic competitiveness. However, the NU fans at the latest ISU/NU basketball game win the “Sticking it to the ISU fans without being asses about it” award. During the first half of the game, when ISU was actually ahead by 5 points, the ISU fans started some yelling about how NU should give up on basketball and stick to football…to which the huge crowd of NU fans (all 60 of them…you guys really need to show the BB team a little more love…) started chanting “Let’s Play Baseball…Let’s Play Baseball!” Instant silence from the ISU contingent….Bravo!
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What a pathetic class Cy!! Thanks for the report and good luck in 08! :sarcasm
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Thanks! And congratulations by the way, on your gold medal in the Special Olympics... <_<

 
I thought Iowa State made a mistake when they dumped McCarney. He did as well as anyone could do there and was not simply using Iowa State as a stepping stone like Majors, Bruce and Chizek!

:dunno

 
Cy,

Thought you might like to see a picture of Cleyon. He looks pretty laid-back.

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I hope he doesn't play dirty. We wouldn't want to have to call him the Alberta clipper! Eh?

:rollin

 
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The athletic dept has no money? Didn't Chizik only take the job because ISU said they were upgrading the program?

Kinda sucks since I do like ISU.

 
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