I invite some of you to lower your intelligence and read this article that should be titled I am a cyclone therefore I am an idiot.
Part of the tone of the article is a jab at Iowa Fans chiming in about ending the series with them now that they beat us a few times with their small streak while there was little mention of this when we beat them 15 years in a ROW. Perhaps this is true but the real fact of the matter is it scares the HE!! out of cyclone fans facing the prospect of losing this series. They have NO real rival. They pretend that we really do consider this the biggest game of the year...like it is for them. But more importantly it would be a very big financial blow to them for losing the series. The simple fact that ISU IS subsidized by tax money and Iowa is not is enough evidence to me that ending the series would harm ISU much moreso than Iowa.
In fact I believe that losing the game with Iowa wouold send ripples throughout their entire schedule. They would not be able to charge 90 bucks a ticket for a game that would end up not being a sellout in replacing Iowa. Not having Iowa AND not having nebraska every other year to line their mooching pockets would hurt. I believe that many of their NOT so rabid fans would lose interest in ISU if the rivalry ended. I know many casual fans who became rabid ISU fans when ISU started beating Iowa a few years in a ROW for the rivalry. I grew up in cyclone country. I have more lifelong friends who are cyclone fans than Hawkeye fans. When ISU won 5 in a row a few years back the dynamics of those friendships drastically changed. Those friends came across as true cyclones but they became energized by those victories and started doing things like painting rooms in their house in school colors and buying season tix to games.
End the rivalry and in a few years they will start to lose interest.
I am thoroughly convinced that having the rivalry drastically energizes the ISU fan base. Losing the rivalry will damage their program worse than a simple single game revenue standpoint. Face it folks, the ISU program is hanging in the wings of a big 12. The big 12 appears to be a hospice situation. Losing the rivalry and the a conference would be extremely damaging to ISU.
Now since I despise most of their fans and have a general dislike for ISU in general I am willing to admit that ending the series would make me happy as a bug in a rug. Mostly because it would be enjoyable seeing the panic in their fan base.
I don't like playing them because it is indeed true that if we lose it is a wasted game. If we win then nobody in the polling media or country cares. We are rated as a top 10 program. Playing ISU does nothing for us from a national perspective.
Face it folks (again) THey need us way more than we need them. They are pretending it does't scare them to death at the prospect of losing this game. But in reality they go home each night and curl up into fetal position and whimper at the fact that they KNOW what would happen to them if the series is ended.
Part of the tone of the article is a jab at Iowa Fans chiming in about ending the series with them now that they beat us a few times with their small streak while there was little mention of this when we beat them 15 years in a ROW. Perhaps this is true but the real fact of the matter is it scares the HE!! out of cyclone fans facing the prospect of losing this series. They have NO real rival. They pretend that we really do consider this the biggest game of the year...like it is for them. But more importantly it would be a very big financial blow to them for losing the series. The simple fact that ISU IS subsidized by tax money and Iowa is not is enough evidence to me that ending the series would harm ISU much moreso than Iowa.
In fact I believe that losing the game with Iowa wouold send ripples throughout their entire schedule. They would not be able to charge 90 bucks a ticket for a game that would end up not being a sellout in replacing Iowa. Not having Iowa AND not having nebraska every other year to line their mooching pockets would hurt. I believe that many of their NOT so rabid fans would lose interest in ISU if the rivalry ended. I know many casual fans who became rabid ISU fans when ISU started beating Iowa a few years in a ROW for the rivalry. I grew up in cyclone country. I have more lifelong friends who are cyclone fans than Hawkeye fans. When ISU won 5 in a row a few years back the dynamics of those friendships drastically changed. Those friends came across as true cyclones but they became energized by those victories and started doing things like painting rooms in their house in school colors and buying season tix to games.
End the rivalry and in a few years they will start to lose interest.
I am thoroughly convinced that having the rivalry drastically energizes the ISU fan base. Losing the rivalry will damage their program worse than a simple single game revenue standpoint. Face it folks, the ISU program is hanging in the wings of a big 12. The big 12 appears to be a hospice situation. Losing the rivalry and the a conference would be extremely damaging to ISU.
Now since I despise most of their fans and have a general dislike for ISU in general I am willing to admit that ending the series would make me happy as a bug in a rug. Mostly because it would be enjoyable seeing the panic in their fan base.
I don't like playing them because it is indeed true that if we lose it is a wasted game. If we win then nobody in the polling media or country cares. We are rated as a top 10 program. Playing ISU does nothing for us from a national perspective.
Face it folks (again) THey need us way more than we need them. They are pretending it does't scare them to death at the prospect of losing this game. But in reality they go home each night and curl up into fetal position and whimper at the fact that they KNOW what would happen to them if the series is ended.
