Recent content by Hawk123456

I live in Des Moines and have attended 204 of the last 207 home games. Since the beginning of the 1977 season, I have missed two games to attend funerals and one to attend my daughter's soccer tourney in Missouri.

I was wondering that, too. I commented to my seat mates that we should just take delay of the game penalties one right after another until the clock ran out.

I'm not sure I'd admit that in public.

Palpatine, you should see a intellectual property attorney immediately and discuss if you can trademark that design. Or, do some research and apply for a trademark yourself. Then, when the Big Ten comes and buys that design from you for $500,000 feel free to send me 5% or so to thank me. :-)

One more thing. I think it is a bit ironic that many of you who are flat out blasting the idea of consolidation when it comes to combining Iowa and ISU's athletic programs, are all gung ho for consolidation when it comes to the expansion of the Big Ten and the resultant consolidation of the BCS...

I know this (merging Iowa and ISU's athletics programs) will never happen, but I am going to cut the OP some slack. It would help the Iowa program tremendously, if ISU would drop athletics. The state of Iowa isn't really big enough to support two top notch winning athletic programs over any...

I agree about New Jersey being a net exporter of recruits, but adding Rutgers isn't going to help Iowa recruiting like adding Missouri will help. I know that historically we have had some recruiting success in New Jersey, but it is much, much easier to recruit in an adjoining state (assuming the...

Jon, for the benefit of the Iowa program, I would really like to see Missouri added. However, it doesn't seem like many Iowa fans understand the benefit of adding Missouri. Iowa currently gets the largest numbers of our players from Iowa and Illinois. Missouri being a large population state...

It's little things that make the difference between 10-2 and 8-4 seasons. It's little things that make the difference between good and great. Just the addition of one body at a position were we are lacking depth may be critical if a player or two is injured. For instance, I have to think Todd...

I understand what you are saying and am mostly just giving you a hard time. My point, however, is that a 6-6 or 7-5 ISU hurts our ability to compete in the Big Ten, because a 6-6 or 7-5 ISU is going to be able to recruit at least a player or two that would have otherwise come to Iowa and made a...

There is one stat that leads me to believe that Fran is a very good coach. I find this stat almost amazing, but Fran has been a head coach for 14 seasons. In 13 of those 14 seasons his teams have had a better record than the team had the year before. (Granted, if you are Tom Izzo and your team...

Iowa has NEVER exhibited total dominance in football in the Big Ten (at least since the early 1920s). We need all the help we can get just to annually be in contention for a Big Ten championship. Having a strong ISU (and a strong rivalry with ISU) hurts our ability to recruit in the state, and...

Let's save our close games for Ohio State and Penn State. I just don't get this idea that any win by more than 10 points is boring. Maybe it is boring to the casual, fair weather fan, but to someone who cares about and understands most everything that a team is trying to do on the field...

A strong rivalry with ISU hurts Iowa without a doubt. In a small state like Iowa, with few BCS caliber recruits, when we lose a recruit to ISU it really hurts us. When Iowa pounds ISU every year in football, we lose few recruits to ISU. When the teams are evenly matched, we lose several recruits...

Thanks for the quick response. My computer has always been set to accept cookies, so changing my cookies settings does not solve my problem. For whatever it is worth, I am using a Mac and my browser is Safari. And, again, I don't ever have this problem with any other website that I go to...