hawkinn3
Well-Known Member
ISU has been continually on the rise for almost 20 years according to their fans. They are always one year from being the dominant in state program, always one year from winning the conference, always one year from being a top program.
They have not won a conference title since 1912 or produced an all-american since 2000. This is not even a program of mediocrity it is a program of inferiority.
The program has only one measuring stick, The University of Iowa. Beat Iowa = Good Year Lose to Iowa = Ridicule Iowa for not beating them by more.
There is a good reason for this culture of malcontentedness and misery. The university is a 2nd choice safety school where C students from the Des Moines Metro go to party for a couple semesters before dropping out and working menial jobs.
This lifetime of failure wells up inside of these people and is directed at The University of Iowa, its fans, its students and its sports programs.
ISU fan can put on his faded walmart cyclone jersey, two sizes too small and get tickets to the Iowa game where he drinks likes he still in his 20s and hopes ISU beats Iowa. Sometimes they do, and if so it gives him that glimmer of hope his lot in life can get better.
When it comes down to it all the bravado is born of despair.
They have not won a conference title since 1912 or produced an all-american since 2000. This is not even a program of mediocrity it is a program of inferiority.
The program has only one measuring stick, The University of Iowa. Beat Iowa = Good Year Lose to Iowa = Ridicule Iowa for not beating them by more.
There is a good reason for this culture of malcontentedness and misery. The university is a 2nd choice safety school where C students from the Des Moines Metro go to party for a couple semesters before dropping out and working menial jobs.
This lifetime of failure wells up inside of these people and is directed at The University of Iowa, its fans, its students and its sports programs.
ISU fan can put on his faded walmart cyclone jersey, two sizes too small and get tickets to the Iowa game where he drinks likes he still in his 20s and hopes ISU beats Iowa. Sometimes they do, and if so it gives him that glimmer of hope his lot in life can get better.
When it comes down to it all the bravado is born of despair.
