It would be tough having to cheer for Kim Mulkey, Geno Auriemma, and now Dawn Staley. That’s a lot to put yourself through in less than a week.
Clone board meltdown...
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It's truly insane isn't it? I sure as hell wasn't cheering for Stanford when they played ISU women. Imagine being from a small state with two power 5 schools that split what little talent there is, and cheering for stacker coastal schools that constantly win titles.
Jealousy is a really powerful emotion.
Maybe it all dates back to one of their lower tier bowl games a few years ago where the announcers kept referring to them as the Iowa State Hawkeyes? Not aware the State has two D1 programs.
Don't worry folks, I've been wearing black and gold all week here. Nobody has had the testicular fortitude to say anything to me.
no=it goes back to the early 80's when Hayden got it going and they were going south, Mark Hansen wrote back then the loudest cheers of the day at Cyclone events would be when they announced the Iowa scores when Iowa was losing.....now the Dm Register kisses their ass every chance they get and it creates a lot of false narratives--
When listening to cyclone fans describing some event in their favor I always laugh and say you must read and believe that Peterson guy's BS
Mark Hanson
Ron Maly
Donald Kaul
Back when the Register and “The Big Peach”
was a must read.
It really does not make sense does it… I’m gonna tell you there have been many times in the past. I was very frustrated about an Iowa State loss in multiple sports….
Now it doesn’t eat me up and as I’ve said before I don’t live in the state and haven’t for 30 years. I know living in close proximity of a rival fan is a whole different deal, but I generally have nothing but respect and appreciation for them….
I don’t particularly understand our vitriol nor theirs. It’s one thing to not care for a team and believe me when I was 20, 25, 35 maybe even 40 I could still muster up some significant hate for a lot of teams but to me it’s an absolutely ridiculous emotion at this stage of my life. …
Each to their own however…🤷♂️
PS…. i’m not gonna list off all the teams in my life, I used to have a monster chip about. But ISU isn’t even in the top 10 to be perfectly honest with you.
This still might be my favorite thread in message board history
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Time for a Real Discussion About Caitlin Clark
I can respect the fact she may be the most talented women's basketball player we have seen. But this isn't the first time I watched her act like a complete a$$ on the court for whatever the reason. She is a poor winner and even worse loser. IMHO... Discuss...
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307 pages to that thread????This still might be my favorite thread in message board history
Time for a Real Discussion About Caitlin Clark
I can respect the fact she may be the most talented women's basketball player we have seen. But this isn't the first time I watched her act like a complete a$$ on the court for whatever the reason. She is a poor winner and even worse loser. IMHO... Discuss...
I think the word is "OBSESSION".
Ridiculing lil bro never gets old.
And a lot of them complained about how the media was too obsessed with CC. It's amazing
Yep. He graduated from West 2 years before me. We had some pretty good Falcon basketball AND football teams back in the mid to late 70's. Coach Wessel was an ASS though.....
One of the craziest state title runs I've ever heard of too. Losing record entering the playoffs to state champions. I can't remember the year though. I think Bill Seals and Jim Wessel played on that team but I could be off.
Update....Clone board now at 18 pages and growing.
Walmart just delivered their 3rd truckload of Kleenex to Ames.
LOL
Walmart just delivered their 3rd truckload of Kleenex to Ames.
LOL
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Had to be before my time. was Jim related to Dave Wessel (the head coach)? Dude was an ASS. I played junior high at Wallace Wood, (which later became North high school). After our 9th grade season our coach talked to all the players who were heading to high school. Wood was a feeder for both Central and West, as it was on the boundry line. He told the guys going to Central that they'd be fine, but the guys going to West would have a hard time making the team at West. Wessel wanted all the junior highs running his programs and plays. Since Wood fed both high schools our coach would not play ball, so we started behind the 8 ball. I Made the soph team, but not the varsity, (because I was on the football team) supposedly. Come to think of it Roger Harrington (the varsity football coach) was an ASS also. Lolol. Really liked Cy Robinson though. He was a tough SOB, and was on the Washington Redskins roster for a couple of years as a center, I think..
I’ve said this for years but an Iowa loss makes them more happy than an Iowa State win.
Due to location, I went to a lot of ISU fball games in my childhood. They might be down 50 points but if they announced a score of Iowa losing....standing ovation
I don’t mind the school, players, or coaches.
But Jamie Pollard and their fanbase can suck a fat one.
Agreed to a point….its the fans, theirs, ours, others that ruin sports for me and I’m serious.
Lots of idiots out there and we have many ourselves…🤷♂️
Iowa State has a lot to be excited about, especially in basketball, but they still seem to get more pleasure out of Iowa losing than they do Iowa State winning.
Agreed…it totally confounds me that an Iowa fan would also cheer for trashy in-state rival like iswho. 😜
I attended the Iowa vs ISU women’s game in Ames this year. Don’t recall CC getting booed, but suppose I maybe missed that? There were certainly a lot of Iowa fans there, so that prolly drowned out any booing.
Maybe it’s just me, but IDGAF about what is said about Iowa on an Iowa State message board. Seems like a waste of energy to me.
I know the cyclone fan base definitely does not like that Iowa nationally is known as the “Hawkeye State”. 😉
This.... I hate all things ISU...wish all their fans stayed in Lames and in their lane
If we pull the upset tomorrow and I was a bus driver in Ames, I'd keep my head on a swivel Monday morning.
If we win today, you do know that living in Ames, you will need to wear these tomorrow:
If we win today, you do know that living in Ames, you will need to wear these tomorrow:
I don't have a pair. But I'll be wearing hawkeye clothes randomly walking around campus town until some farm boy wants to fight me. Then I'll gladly take a punch to the face and then own his Ford F-250
When ISU does well, that actually hurts Iowa. That is why I will never root for them.
A few years ago, there was a campaign by some Clone fans to boycott the Kum and Go convenience stores in Ames because the Krause family are big Hawkeye boosters.
If you go to the women's basketball forum on Cyclone Fanatic, the discussions are (and always have been) reasonable.
I have to be honest. I would like to see ISU lose at everything. Nothing against their athletes and coaches.
It is all about Pollard and the fan base.
It is all about Pollard and the fan base.
I think every fan base has its fair share of insufferable fans. As an ISU alumnus and fan, I have taken a lot or crap over the years from Hawk fans. I think Hayden Fry had a lot to do with the animosity between fan bases.
He rubbed it in. Hawk fans loved it. Cyclone fans hated it, and things grew from there.
Most of it is good natured ribbing. Some of it is just sheer meanness + stupidity. I have seem the same from ISU fans to Iowa fans. The MOST I have seen or read) is on message boards. No one has ever called me a "Clown" or "Hillbilly Dork" to my face, but I see it all the time on message boards. I guess anonymity allows for that. It's weird.
As for Clark, I think most (not all) Cyclone fans dislike the attention she gets because a lot (not all) Hawk fans + especially the media seem to ignore her antics on the floor. My argument is "how would Hawk fans respond to her behavior if she played for another team (especially Iowa State)". It's all about perspective. Iowa State fans felt slighted by the media this year. Probably the 2nd best team in their basketball history, but there were times you would never know it. KCRG in CR was awful about it (again from my perspective). We understand WHY Clark + the Iowa women got so much attention, but the media is supposed to be objective. Oftentimes they were not. It will be interesting next year to see how much attention the Iowa women get without Clark.
I think people see what they want to see sometimes, and are blinded by their Fandom. Clark is a great player, but her behavior on the floor is "questionable". That is what I see. A Hawk fan maybe sees something different. Switch uniforms, and perspectives sometime change. A questionable illegal screen call might depend on what team you cheer for? Same goes for DeJeans fair catch call, and the "blarge call" on Paul Shirley in the 2000 Elite 8 game vs. Michigan State. The list goes on + on with every team at every level.
Anyway Hawk fans, enjoy the game today. Although I'm not a Hawk fan, I am pulling for Iowa because I am an Iowan. It's pretty cool to have a team down the road play in the Final Four + title game.
He rubbed it in. Hawk fans loved it. Cyclone fans hated it, and things grew from there.
Most of it is good natured ribbing. Some of it is just sheer meanness + stupidity. I have seem the same from ISU fans to Iowa fans. The MOST I have seen or read) is on message boards. No one has ever called me a "Clown" or "Hillbilly Dork" to my face, but I see it all the time on message boards. I guess anonymity allows for that. It's weird.
As for Clark, I think most (not all) Cyclone fans dislike the attention she gets because a lot (not all) Hawk fans + especially the media seem to ignore her antics on the floor. My argument is "how would Hawk fans respond to her behavior if she played for another team (especially Iowa State)". It's all about perspective. Iowa State fans felt slighted by the media this year. Probably the 2nd best team in their basketball history, but there were times you would never know it. KCRG in CR was awful about it (again from my perspective). We understand WHY Clark + the Iowa women got so much attention, but the media is supposed to be objective. Oftentimes they were not. It will be interesting next year to see how much attention the Iowa women get without Clark.
I think people see what they want to see sometimes, and are blinded by their Fandom. Clark is a great player, but her behavior on the floor is "questionable". That is what I see. A Hawk fan maybe sees something different. Switch uniforms, and perspectives sometime change. A questionable illegal screen call might depend on what team you cheer for? Same goes for DeJeans fair catch call, and the "blarge call" on Paul Shirley in the 2000 Elite 8 game vs. Michigan State. The list goes on + on with every team at every level.
Anyway Hawk fans, enjoy the game today. Although I'm not a Hawk fan, I am pulling for Iowa because I am an Iowan. It's pretty cool to have a team down the road play in the Final Four + title game.
