Travis and Tim are idiots....

[SpiderRico]

I know that is like saying the sky is blue, but it's gotten to even more perverse levels the last couple of days.

They took the recording of an answer that Pollard gave a caller on Rhoad's call in show where he stated that if ISU fans were expecting 9 wins every year, that they weren't thinking right, and have basically called out Pollard for setting expectations for ISU too low.

Now, I'm the furthest from an ISU apologist that one can get, but stating that all ISU fans should expect 9 wins every year could quite possibly be the dumbest thing ever said on radio since its invention. They even went on to say that Iowa should expect 9 wins every year. In fact, they went so far as to say that every fan of every team should expect 9 wins. They went on and on about how it isn't that hard to get 9 wins every year.

So I did some checking. In the last 10 years (2003-2012...essentially two full cycles of recruits), there are only 2 teams in all of college football that can lay claim to getting 9 wins each and every year over the last 10 years. One of them is Boise State. The other is LSU. Ohio State couldn't do it. USC couldn't do it. Texas couldn't do it. Alabama couldn't do it. Oklahoma couldn't do it. Florida couldn't do it. Florida State couldn't do it. Michigan couldn't do it.

So yeah, getting 9 wins every year is pretty tough. He!!, AVERAGING 9 wins per year over 10 years is tough. Only 14 schools have been able to even average 9 wins per year over the last 10 year period.

Good God those guys take dumb to a whole new level. I think my 8 year old son knows more about sports than those buffoons.

 

[blubberhawk]

I know that is like saying the sky is blue, but it's gotten to even more perverse levels the last couple of days.

They took the recording of an answer that Pollard gave a caller on Rhoad's call in show where he stated that if ISU fans were expecting 9 wins every year, that they weren't thinking right, and have basically called out Pollard for setting expectations for ISU too low.

Now, I'm the furthest from an ISU apologist that one can get, but stating that all ISU fans should expect 9 wins every year could quite possibly be the dumbest thing ever said on radio since its invention. They even went on to say that Iowa should expect 9 wins every year. In fact, they went so far as to say that every fan of every team should expect 9 wins. They went on and on about how it isn't that hard to get 9 wins every year.

So I did some checking. In the last 10 years (2003-2012...essentially two full cycles of recruits), there are only 2 teams in all of college football that can lay claim to getting 9 wins each and every year over the last 10 years. One of them is Boise State. The other is LSU. Ohio State couldn't do it. USC couldn't do it. Texas couldn't do it. Alabama couldn't do it. Oklahoma couldn't do it. Florida couldn't do it. Florida State couldn't do it. Michigan couldn't do it.

So yeah, getting 9 wins every year is pretty tough. He!!, AVERAGING 9 wins per year over 10 years is tough. Only 14 schools have been able to even average 9 wins per year over the last 10 year period.

Good God those guys take dumb to a whole new level. I think my 8 year old son knows more about sports than those buffoons.

Makes you wonder how people get jobs like they have, doesn't it. Think about it.
ISU has played football for 120 years. Over that period of time they have averaged 4.2 wins per season. They have NEVER won a Big 8 or Big 12 conference title. They have NEVER played in a January Bowl game. They have finished in the final A.P. top 25, 2 times. What in God's name would make ANYONE think that ISU should win 9 games a year. The reality is the ISU program, over the 120 years of it's existence, is and has been, one of the worst football programs in the country.

 

[thetrza]

12 wins should be the norm for every Iowa state coach.

 

[DJL]

I had stopped listening to them, you know because they are idiots, but after an Iowa win, I thought maybe I would turn it on to hear them talk about football. Instead I hear them talking about strip clubs, and other stupid topics. How hard is it to do talk radio during football season? Seriously, just talk about college football.
Anyway, I heard this, and yes they seem to be making something out of nothing as usual. Maybe JP could have said it a little better, but very few programs, especially ISU are going to get 9 wins a year. I would say that they just need something to talk about, but there are plenty of other much more interesting topics to cover.

 

[ChosenChildren]

Makes you wonder how people get jobs like they have, doesn't it. Think about it.
ISU has played football for 120 years. Over that period of time they have averaged 4.2 wins per season. They have NEVER won a Big 8 or Big 12 conference title. They have NEVER played in a January Bowl game. They have finished in the final A.P. top 25, 2 times. What in God's name would make ANYONE think that ISU should win 9 games a year. The reality is the ISU program, over the 120 years of it's existence, is and has been, one of the worst football programs in the country.

And yet Iowa is 7 wins and 9 losses against Iowa State in the last 16 games. Amazing

 

[ibahawkeye]

And yet Iowa is 7 wins and 9 losses against Iowa State in the last 16 games. Amazing

Superbowl!!

Did I get in before anybody else???

 

[DP5555]

I don't listen to much radio, but are they the same guys who always interview the girls from Twin Peaks? I caught one of those interviews and one of them was acting like a perverted scumbag. He sounded like he's a 50 year old man creepin on a 20 year old girl. I know that happens, but on live radio in Iowa when you're supposed to be talking about sports? I thought it was a little much.

 

[thetrza]

No, these are the guys who interview the latest weather girl from the local tv news, then go on and on about preggers chicks.

 

[Calculator]

Why aren't we talking about the smoke and mirrors answer that JP gave? It was a masterpiece.

 

[vosov]

Why aren't we talking about the smoke and mirrors answer that JP gave? It was a masterpiece.

What did Pollard say. That guy is better at blind folding a fan base than it should be humanly possible. I'm starting to wonder if he is actually a hypnotist...I take that back. People would be paying more than $10 a ticket to games if he were hypnotizing them.

 

[DJL]

I don't listen to much radio, but are they the same guys who always interview the girls from Twin Peaks? I caught one of those interviews and one of them was acting like a perverted scumbag. He sounded like he's a 50 year old man creepin on a 20 year old girl. I know that happens, but on live radio in Iowa when you're supposed to be talking about sports? I thought it was a little much.

You are talking about Jim Brinson. He is a bit much. His partner Ken Miller has to leave the room when he interviews those girls.

 

[BroderickHawk]

12 wins should be the norm for every Iowa state coach.

Spread over how many years?

 

[GoHawks24]

And yet Iowa is 7 wins and 9 losses against Iowa State in the last 16 games. Amazing

I see you're letting that little brother syndrome get the best of you again, brah. Nobody even mentioned Iowa football, they were only talking about ISU football, but of course you had try and justify your football program.

 

[MiniMoeHawk]

And yet Iowa is 7 wins and 9 losses against Iowa State in the last 16 games. Amazing

Yet you would still prefer to have Iowa's money and tradition. GTFO and watch your clowns give up another 50 points this weekend.

 

[uihawk82]

And yet Iowa is 7 wins and 9 losses against Iowa State in the last 16 games. Amazing

haha, and most of ISU's wins in this timespan are upsets of an underachieving Iowa team or due to some weird planetary alignment. KF's first two bad teams almost beat supposedly good ISU teams but when Iowa wins most times it is big.

 

[Bigtenchamp]

Travis is a half brain but Tim actually bothers me much worse.

He is a know it all who really knows nothing... among other things that bug me about him.

 

[hawkfan33]

12 wins should be the norm for every Iowa state coach.

12 conference wins in four years sounds just about right for Rhodes.

 

[metahawk]

Travis has grown on me. But when they start talking Iowa State, I change the channel - since I don't follow Iowa State football. It's irrelevant, and even more so when they are talking about how much it sucks, since I already knew that.

 

[Stanzi]

Spread over how many years?

Any answer of less than 15 years seems low.

 

[cuihawk]

Travis is a half brain but Tim actually bothers me much worse.

He is a know it all who really knows nothing... among other things that bug me about him.

This. I actually kind of like Travis.

I only listen for my 15 minute commute each day because there is nothing else on, but out of that time, I've not agreed with one thing Tim has to say. He drags that show down terribly. He is good for some annoyingly in depth/lengthy MVC b-ball analysis though.