Up until 2021 it was a 10…first Iowa game was 1976. Stopped going to games 2 years ago. Right now I’m at a 6. If I was told I could never watch an Iowa football game again I think I could get over it. Pay for play and the portal ruined it for me. Now it’s basically double or triple A professional football. Not putting my money towards that. I actually go to more professional sports now. Soccer. Basketball. Baseball.
I try to watch soccer and do enjoy it but I really struggle being passionate about the sport besides the USMNT
I decided to be a Liverpool fan about a decade ago and often it feels like being an Iowa fan. lol Granted, Pool has won several titles in that period of time.
FWIW, I would describe myself pretty similarly. I love to hunt, so I prefer to be outdoors at my farm in the fall v. In a crowded stadium, but I still followed FB pretty closely. Now? Meh.
Arsenal is a closer replica of Iowa, although Arsenal is the Minnesota Vikings of the premier league if you want to make the most accurate comparison. Always good and they make a run fairly frequently but then they always blow it at the end of the season. Every. Single. Year.
It's not so much Proctor specifically, it's the status of whatever college football has become. This just isn't fun. Constantly seeing rosters turnover and this crap that goes on between seasons isn't why I love and watch college football. It's not like I didn't expect this to happen, it's why I'm so pissed at the Presidents for being greedy and the NCAA for being toothless to stop it. When the rules were thrown out, this is exactly what I expected to happen. And yet, they are still powerless to do anything about it. Of course, it would have been far easier to control this if they had made up a process before the courts got involved.
I think the NCAA is just the equivalent of a kid throwing a fit after putting up a fight after all these years. Essentially saying "Fine, do whatever you want I don't care anymore"
I know exactly how you feel. A decade ago, I had been trying to figure out a team and Liverpool was always a team I was interested in because it didn't feel like I was bandwagonning due to them winning so inconsistently over the last 30 years. I finally did it when Klinsmann came aboard because I loved him at BVB. Liverpool always seemed like a blue collar team that just couldn't get it figured out but could always threaten and had a very respectable history, passionate fanbase, and I can relate to that. Klinsmann obviously changed the culture and just dominated offensively and that counterattack is just so sweet.
Like him or hate him, he's who we can get. USMNT won't pay the money to get anyone better than him. At least there is a reason he's still around and it's money. You may not like it but that's what it is.
I wonder if it would be better to have a none and done rule? High school to the NBA or NFL. Play for pay and no college class hassles.
I want to see a QB or RB change uniforms at halftime 😆 🤣 😂 😹
I truly hope athletes aren’t found to be employees of the UI. It will open up an entire range of new problems. Just wait until the lawyers get involved at that point. They’ll make the discrimination case look like child’s play. I don’t even know if this is legal but if they could make compensation uniform across the schools that would at least provide some certainty for everyone. With that suggestion, I probably just created an avenue for lawyers to get involved.
I used to be a very passionate fan. Season ticket holder. All of my neighbors would know if I was watching an Iowa game. Then Iowa morphed into this super cautious, extra careful mode, doing juuuuuust enough to stay in games with bad teams and get crushed by the really good ones. Now I sit and watch quietly, hoping for the best, but always waiting for us to give the opponent an opportunity to win it at the end of a game . No lead is ever big enough.
It would be but you’ll have a hard time convincing the NBA to go back to the old rule and the NFL would never agree to it. Evaluating and drafting high schoolers is/was a high risk for teams. You could end up with a LeBron James or you could get a Sebastian Telfair.
I was wearing a Liverpool jersey in NYC one time. Just threw it on. I couldn’t believe how many comments from Pool fans I got. One lady came up to me in Battery Park. She had season tickets. Her husband was an Everton fan. “Right town. Wrong club.” As we were checking out in the Empire State Building gift shop the cashier said, “You’ll never walk alone. Yeah, awesome anthem.
