You know what great marketing is for your organization? Actually being paid handsomely by those doing the work for you, rather than pay those folks to do the work. It’s called leverage, power, and money.
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There is some truth to this. As an IOWA alumus, B1G snob, and Iowa native son, I cheer for Iowa State, with the exception of when they play IOWA. Why? Because overwhelmingly they are good schools, with good people, and the majority of fans have humility, are fun, realistic, and generally not ridiculous.
The question was asked who has an advantage over in Iowa in football, all things considered. Nebraska has a great history but it’s haunting the program now. The big advantage it has over Iowa is its NIL program. Although exact numbers are hard to find Nebraska is near the top ten in NIL money in the country. So yes, that is a huge advantage over Iowa at the moment. But yet they still lose time and time again to us.
So what is it when the Hawks win in lames by 10 points and the clowns were never really in the game?
Quite a bit actually. When the Big Ten does well it increases the overall worth of the conference which translates to increased revenue for Iowa. Or maybe the massive difference in TV contracts between the Big Ten and leftover league is just because the networks want to be nice to the Big Ten.
Four top ten teams (Indiana’s schedule ranks 106, played one team and got smoked). Absolutely nobody of any substance behind those three + Indiana. Need I remind that Iowa has been our scores 127-7 in its last four top 20 contests? The 7 came late in Q4 while down 35-0 vs what turns out to be a very beatable Ohio State. It’s a joke to compare any conference to the SEC.
So, no correlation or benefit to the Iowa football program winning... Just more money? That's not what I want, I want meaningful games in the postseason.
Nice post by the OP. Congrats to ISU.
Over the next 3 years the BIG and SEC will go 24 teams and we will have another subdivision of college football, where the P2 teams Will be swimming in cash and have huge payrolls. Guess what little clown team won't be part of that. In just a few short years your little conference won't have a seat at the big boy table.
The BIG and the SEC want the big 12 to die. In a few years there will be two 24 team conferences that will get a playoff spot. ISU won't be in either of those 2 conferences. It's just a matter of time.
Who knows what the future will bring? Iowa State is happy where we are today. I believe Iowa would say the same.
They won't. Even the NFL needs some lower teams. You have to have some numbers to keep things interesting.
ISU fans in southwest Iowa have a fair amount of dislike for Nebraska. The Omaha stations are all-in for the Huskers and it gets really old. For ISU fans in Cedar Rapids, the local media is pro-Iowa with almost nothing about Nebraska. So there is little animosity toward Nebraska now that they are out of their league. They may get some entertainment about seeing them struggle though when they play Iowa. Hard not to.
I'm not worried about the B1G at all honestly. You do have a point about Texas considering their history but the SEC won't play around. If anything, the jumps would be from the SEC to the B1G and vice-versa. I doubt much, if any, of that happens but you never know. None of can predict this entirely for sure.
