So MN players and coaches left the sideline to get a better angle to wave at the kids during 'our' new tradition. I believe IL did as well. I put quotes around our because it should be including the Iowa players and coaches too. Yet only a few players on the sidelines seem to be participating. I'm not saying they should stand there at attention for the entire 2 min timeout waving but if they all would for 5-10 seconds even would that be the end of the world? That's who those kids are really wanting to wave back and forth with. Sure a stadium full of strangers is cool too. But the players that they know the names of waving back would mean more and the fact other schools are doing it and ours aren't just doesn't look good...
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hawkeyebob62
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If you watch a Wisconsin home game, you'll notice that just about the only people NOT doing the "jump-around" are Wisconsin players/staff. Visiting team does it once a year. Can't expect home players to do it every game.
True but this isn't that sort of thing at all. This is a tug at the heart strings kind of thing. That's just for the pure fun of it. There are new kids up in the hospital as they are always coming and going. So it's always somebodies first time up there and that's what matters. And even for the kids that are unfortunate enough to be up there for multiple weeks and I'm sure there's plenty of them as well it's the absolute least they can do.. Not asking for the moon here...
hawkeyebob62
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I think players that aren't "engaged" should do it if they want, but I wouldn't break up sideline meetings just to do it.
hawkeyebob62
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And remember, some or all of the players visit some of these kids throughout the season. To me, "The Wave" is a fan/spectator event, not a player/team event. The fact visiting opponents have done it is a bonus/byproduct of the fan/spectator initiative.
So because players visit them means the kids wouldn't like it if they waved during this too? That's excuse making. The bottom line is the kids would love it more if players/coaches for Iowa would wave back too. They all have 5 to 10 seconds of time to spare. The time is such an insignificant issue with this I can't believe anyone would try to make it one. The other schools are able and happily willing to. Your not breaking up any meetings because they hadn't started yet one group of players be it the D or O is still on the field when it starts. So I guess you could be breaking up one sides briefly but again time isn't the issue here they don't have to do it for the whole TV timeout. a few somewhat synchronized seconds would more then do the trick
hawkeyebob62
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The other schools do it one time--as I mentioned previously--when visiting. There isn't always time to "coordinate" it on a week-to-week basis.
If this is so important to you, bring it up to the athletic department. Or better yet, punish Brian for his indiscretion yesterday by having him leave the press box and do it each week.
How is there not enough time to do something? They don't have to lineup like they do for the anthem. Just wherever they are stand up and do it at the same time at the end of the 1st Q.
How would having Brian do this be a 'punishment'? What I think Brian did was bad but for you to suggest that waving to the kids in the hospital is a 'punishment' of some kind just makes your argument irrelevant.
HawkeyeHypnosis
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I think the football team needs all the time it can to focus on football.
hawkeyebob62
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The horse died, BTW...
hawkeyebob62
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Probably poor execution
homes
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What I don't like is some people beginning to use what should be/is a nice thing/tradition as now some sledgehammer to compel the football team to do it, and if they don't it's some sort of mark against their character or values. Lighten up. It was promoted as the fans waving at the kids/families. One would know that if they were at the first game. Lovie Smith decided to join in. So did Minnesota. Good for them. North Texas didn't. Penn State didn't. Are they wretches now because they didn't join in? It must be tiresome being so morally superior.
That pretty much sums it up period to me.
It's not even so much a moral thing as a common sense thing. Take off your Herky glasses for a second say it's just two schools you don't know or care anything about. If the away school is doing it yet the home team isn't it looks not only head scratching bad it looks downright terrible due to how simple of a gesture it is to wave for 10 seconds or less.
I find it incredulous that both Iowa's coaches and players aren't doing it and that there are fans making excuses for them to not to. 10 seconds or less. Nobody can convince me that during that time Iowa's coaches would be passing along some kind of knowledge that'd be game changing important that they couldn't convey to them 10 seconds later... Why is doing such a great thing that is so simple being made out to be an impossibility?
guffus
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This is exactly why I hated this tradition from the very begining. Its painted as this voluntary thing that should be a nice thing, but is quickly turned into this guilt-fest for those that are not interested in participating in this new "tradition".
For those of you that are demanding that anyone "has" to participate, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Do if you want yourself, but you need to stop short of forcing anybody to do it.
For those of you that are demanding that anyone "has" to participate, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Do if you want yourself, but you need to stop short of forcing anybody to do it.
Garandx
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https://www.widerightnattylite.com/...us-4-ranking-goodbye-following-fourth-quarter
Menawhile ISU decides making fun of sick kids is funny.
Menawhile ISU decides making fun of sick kids is funny.
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DDThompson
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I’d like the Iowa sideline to wave at the kids. I’m not going to think they’re horrible if they don’t.
just as I’m not going to assume opposing teams and refs are doing it for the cameras instead of the kids.
Trying to shame somebody into doing what I think is good ... is it really a good deed if it’s done out of shaming? If it’s done for the camera?
just as I’m not going to assume opposing teams and refs are doing it for the cameras instead of the kids.
Trying to shame somebody into doing what I think is good ... is it really a good deed if it’s done out of shaming? If it’s done for the camera?
