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Iowa State-SDSU game cancelled
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Yes. They pulled the teams off very quickly.
Been to high school baseball games where they were not that trigger happy.
My guess is there were a few more people at the Iowa State game than the high school baseball games of which you speak. Not many, but a few.
We look like silly bishes worrying about their 1 game suspensions. I don't think any of their players killed anyone.
Yeah. I don't think you mess with lightning, but it just seems odd to cancel. I would expect it played even late at night.
Not like they opened Hilton or the practice facility for fans to get out of harms way.
Basically everybody stood in an open air concourse for over 2 hours.
Nobody is worried about it, except you. It's about principle. At this point it will only be for a week and not a game. Idc if they play against Iowa. But for anybody to say "if they reschedule the game, just suspend them then" is out of touch with reality.
Some truth here about me worrying about it. I work with like 65% ISU fans and it would annoy me to hell if we won a close one with a couple of their regulars down because of suspension for relatively minor issues. I would hear it for a year.
But I also don't care about the false "principle" here. I don't think it's accurate. They've been punished. I'm assuming ISU is smart enough to give the bulk of game week practice reps to the guys who were actually going to play in the game. I'm assuming the suspended guys didn't suit up and weren't allowed to participate in pre-game warm ups and didn't get to take the field with the team before kickoff. I'm assuming they were standing on the sideline in jeans. If I'm wrong about those assumptions, I wouldn't know because their game wasn't televised nationally anywhere because they're ISU. I don't like my fellow Hawk fans assuming that Kirk would hold Wirfs/Jackson out another week if the game today was called due to weather. That's never happened in his tenure so we don't know how it would be handled. It's fairly rare in CFB so we don't have a lot to compare it to. Limited precedence.
Yeah, I gotcha. The biggest deal will be if they dont sit out against Iowa, they reschedule and sit that game out, that's a very bad look.
I don't know why they aren't either. The game wasn't on real TV so it was all being paid for by ISU/their fans. I would think the money for the bus or plane SDSU chartered would be worth a quick negotiation between the schools. No class on Monday because of the holiday. The attendance would be hurt, but that matters little at this point. Maybe it was seen as potentially too competitive for either school to risk an L if there's an excuse to not play the game. SDSU is probably not winning the Missouri Valley and they'll be looking to get in the FCS playoffs at large. Maybe it's in the contract that SDSU forfeits some of the money if the game is called off and the ISU athletic department just got a minor windfall.
Because the sheep have been startled by the storms and need comforting, at both schools.
Who cares what these two Moo U schools do. They both suck.
That's a good point. I think if they get a 12th opponent, it probably won't be SDSU. It'll be whoever is available during their off week. Maybe let them play that game too and let the suspension stand as missing out on everything leading up to the home opener. The suspension is still on the "record."
They aren't playing because for one SDSU has no place to sleep tonight, two both head coaches didn't want to lose a day of prep for next week, and three the forecast ain't exactly rosy for several days.
Nothing to see here folks. SDSU still got paid in full also. And you don;t want to try and play the game and have something tragic occur.
Nothing to see here folks. SDSU still got paid in full also. And you don;t want to try and play the game and have something tragic occur.
How can the opponent be allowed to play 13 games?
It's going to be pure comedy seeing ISU try justifying how their guys who were supposed to serve 1-game suspension have served those suspensions when, in fact, ISU has played 0 games.
Easily, I think, if ISU wants it and wants to pay for it. The NCAA has little oversight. They approve a waiver and one G5 or FCS program gets paid a bit to visit Ames. Again, limited precedence here. I don't have the scheduling matrix in front of me, but it's also possible they find an opponent who isn't scheduled to play 12 due to weather or whatever else.
I guess it happens, but how often do college games get cancelled because of weather? I know some games were postponed after 9/11, but the last football game I remember getting called off was the 1976 College All-Star vs Chicago Bears game that was literally washed out. Probably forgetting some recent ones, but doesn't it seem as though the weather is playing a larger part in our every day lives.
I know games in the south have been cancelled from hurricanes in recent times
They said the last time an ISU game was cancelled was against drake...after JFK was assassinated. I’m guessing it’s been awhile Iowa too.
I don’t really care either way if their suspended players play, I believe Iowa will win regardless.
But it’s more about Iowa State fans being the biggest hypocrites out there, they would be throwing an absolute fit if the situation was reversed.
But it’s more about Iowa State fans being the biggest hypocrites out there, they would be throwing an absolute fit if the situation was reversed.
Not all of them. We have a thread with several people criticizing them for it. The situation is unique. Great start to a lot of dumb that this week always brings.
We’ll see how your Cyclones hold up in Kinnick. If I were you I would’ve rather played that game today win or lose.
UI CLAS 2012 = University of Iowa, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2012 graduate. Not "I'm in colorado but my dad loves Iowa."
Lol, lil boy! You’re dumb entertainment but still entertainment I guess.
Who they going to schedule on their bye week? No one is going to agree to play an extra game.
Clever insult, old man. I defer to your elder wisdom. I'll forget that you questioned my loyalty because I wasn't a chickenshit hoping that ISU would be without pieces in their depth chart next week because of half-served suspensions for minor issues.
Definitely defer to my wisdom. Your Cyclones had better bring it next week lil boy!
It really is an underrated place to tailgate. I've always had a fun time tailgating at ISU. Just always felt like there's more space to roam than other places, but I was also closer to the stadium as well.
Sometimes I'm glad weed is illegal in Iowa. Never when I want to buy a bag, but at other times.
I had a blast tailgating there in 2009. My brother was a freshman at ISU and I was a junior at Iowa. We had just narrowly escaped UNI and I had no expectations for what ended up happening that season. I thought we would get punked by ISU. I was still 20 and bought 3 cubes of PBR for my brother's friend with a fake ID in IC because he was offering an easy commission and giving me his student section ticket. The one pleasant thing about Ames is that it's easy to find parking 24/7/365. We met up with a mixed Hawkeye/Clone tailgate at that gigantic grass lot kitty-corner from the stadium and started drinking beer. This one guy at this tailgate was doing shots of Jager almost by himself. He would pour two shots and offer one to a friend and if they didn't want a Jager shot he'd do both. The cops patrolling saw him swaying and walked up to him to just to make sure he wasn't going to die. When he noticed them, he stumbled to the RV we were tailgating by and climbed the ladder and laid out on the roof. Turns out he had warrants and the cops were patient enough to wait him out. Then Iowa won by like 30 points. #CSB.
There's the 12 game thing and there's also the money for a smaller program to visit a P5 school. I think the NCAA would allow a garbage non-playoff FCS team to play a 13th game at ISU for a reasonable paycheck. Or a bad G5 team. Would ISU want to pay to play it? Depends on if they think they can qualify for a bowl without it.
You can always challenge a charge and your bank will be glad to do it. They will give you temporary credit back. Then they send the dispute to ISU. ISU would get the dispute letter and they have so many days to respond back to your bank. If they don't respond, that temporary credit becomes permanent.
How cool would it be if everyone (60,000 plus) disputed the charge related to this game? 60,000 dispute letters flooding ISU's mail box.
the iowa coaches simply need to focus on who is playing and prepare accordingly
i think we should win at Kinnick no matter who suits up for ISU
Pollard said probably another FCS school that had a game cancelled as a result of the weather. So maybe a Drake or similar school.
It is interesting that the suspended players will officially not be held out of any games.
From the Ames Tribune:
The game was recorded as no contest with scores and stats wiped away.
It was the first ISU football game to be cancelled since November 1963 at Drake after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
Three players, Kamilo Tongamoa, De’Monte Ruth and Julian Good-Jones, were serving suspensions for the opener.
Pollard said ISU deems the suspensions of Tongamoa, Ruth and Good-Jones as served Saturday night.
“I’ve already talked to President Wintersteen and athletics faculty rep Tim Day,” Pollard said, “and we’re all in agreement that the suspensions were served tonight because it’s not the student-athlete’s fault that the game couldn’t be in because of weather.”
From the Ames Tribune:
The game was recorded as no contest with scores and stats wiped away.
It was the first ISU football game to be cancelled since November 1963 at Drake after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
Three players, Kamilo Tongamoa, De’Monte Ruth and Julian Good-Jones, were serving suspensions for the opener.
Pollard said ISU deems the suspensions of Tongamoa, Ruth and Good-Jones as served Saturday night.
“I’ve already talked to President Wintersteen and athletics faculty rep Tim Day,” Pollard said, “and we’re all in agreement that the suspensions were served tonight because it’s not the student-athlete’s fault that the game couldn’t be in because of weather.”
