Zack McCabe Appreciation Thread

This one time my brother and the rest of the debate team had an intramural team in high school. Well I was in 6th grade. But I came to watch their game. They needed a player so they let me play. I drained 5 3's in a row. And those debate kids were really impressed cuz to them I was a little kid. We still lost the game because debaters cannot play basketball AT ALL.

Oh and one more thing: I was THE MAN when it came to tip ins in 21. If you were getting close to 21. I'd tip in and back to zero you go. Or back to 11, then back to Zero.

I also excelled at knock out. On the playground you did not want me behind you.

You know on 2nd thought... maybe I am better than Zach McCabe at basketball.
 
expos1994 said:
This one time my brother and the rest of the debate team had an intramural team in high school. Well I was in 6th grade. But I came to watch their game. They needed a player so they let me play. I drained 5 3's in a row. And those debate kids were really impressed cuz to them I was a little kid. We still lost the game because debaters cannot play basketball AT ALL.

Oh and one more thing: I was THE MAN when it came to tip ins in 21. If you were getting close to 21. I'd tip in and back to zero you go. Or back to 11, then back to Zero.

I also excelled at knock out. On the playground you did not want me behind you.

You know on 2nd thought... maybe I am better than Zach McCabe at basketball.
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I had one scrimmage I was just zoned in on knocking down 3's. My teammate was on my team & he was zoned in as well. I just remember we just kept taking turns knocking them down. I was on the smaller side so disadvantaged anywhere 10 ft in. Geez, that was fun, being in that zone.

I think every kid has those late summer nights before going in where shooting alone just everything falls in & can't miss. Anything you'd throw up there would just go in. Relaxed shooting. Those were the nights.
 
Thanks Zach for all the great plays you have made as a Hawk. Thanks for your hustle and your toughness. The season isn't over, in fact it is just getting to the good part.
 
JonnyGuido said:
Everyone needs to relax a bit. When I read this post, I chuckled a smidge. Everyone is killing this guy for inserting a little humor and perspective.
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There was no humor or perspective in it.
You're telling everyone to relax on this guy.
So where's your post telling everyone to relax on McCabe?
 
dave3912 said:
What the hell does anything about idiots anonymously sending out of line tweets directly to Zach McCabe have anything to do with what you posted? People take their "rights" arguments too far, everything is a violation of their rights. I am not stupid, everyone here knows they have "rights" protected by the first amendment say what they want but who the hell cares. I am not asking to revoke the 1st amendment because Zach McCabe's feelings got hurt. This isn't about the Affordable Care Act (or as you probably refer to it "Obama Care") or the right to owning guns. Plus if you feel the need to bring "Obama" into every argument then clearly you have bigger issues. You sound like my father in law, there is a pot hole in the road it's Obama's fault!

Let me make this clear to you, OBAMA isn't ruining our country the mass majority of this country is doing way worse than anything he has done or will ever do. I am talking about the people who believe their rights entitle them to be idiots who do whatever they want and don't care about anything but themselves. THEY are ruining this country NOT Obama, after all they're the ones who elected him. STOP bring up Obama and start taking about the real problem.

Please don't be an idiot, I am not saying I support everything about the Affordable Care Act, it is clearly a load of B.S. but I do agree with the principle of public health care. Same with owning guns, I don't own any myself but I don't agree the government has to right to take them away from anyone.
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Without getting into any of the political stuff, I have to agree with the basic message of your post.

Some people think that the first amendment means that they can say whatever they want, whenever they want, to whoever they want. I think that attitude is BS. Sure, there is a such thing as free speech and I'm not one of those who thinks that other people shouldn't be able to say or do things because I personally don't like it.. But I still feel there are lines that shouldn't be crossed. Especially when you don't have to say it to somebody's face, and have the convenience of internet anonymity. Hiding behind that is just weak.

I still believe in "right and wrong" despite what the constitution or state/federal laws might say. Guess it's having a conscience and treating people the way I'd like to be treated. Call me old fashioned.
 
Iowa fans always have and always will voice their opinions good or bad whether it's on message boards, twitter, facebook, church, or down at the local pub.

If McCabe can't stand the heat maybe he should get out of the kitchen. Or maybe he should take the fans' advice and play his role and stop shooting the ball so much.

I've been ready anti-McCabe stuff on Facebook and these boards all season long. It's just when you miss a crucial shot by 4 feet that the opinions really start to get loud. Maybe the fans are right about McCabe.
 
Once you have any kind of public following, which may be more than 1,000 fans, you can't view twitter as a social means to contact your friends anymore. For Zach it simple should have been a PR tool. Outside of maybe direct messages. You gotta know with all the praise there you get from followers there is just same chance for criticism.

It's not the greatest thing for college players to take part of, cause either they're getting their ego inflated or getting exaggerated criticism.

Iowa State fans may look at this and think we're a disrespectful fan base, but every fan base has bad apples. When your ten times the size of another fan base your going to have more and possibly louder bad apples.

Players need to understand if they take on twitter, bad comes with the good. And they need to be able to handle it without making themselves look bad responding negatively. I'm in the camp that doesn't necessarily feel sorry for McCabe, he should understand this stuff happen on twitter to public people often. It's the internet.

I do hope he can flush the negative distractions and figure out how to project a stronger attitude. He is a great passer on the floor, and generally spaces it well. The shooting issue will come around, but just needs to come up with more hustle rebounds and steals.
 
smhawk said:
Once you have any kind of public following, which may be more than 1,000 fans, you can't view twitter as a social means to contact your friends anymore. For Zach it simple should have been a PR tool. Outside of maybe direct messages. You gotta know with all the praise there you get from followers there is just same chance for criticism.

It's not the greatest thing for college players to take part of, cause either they're getting their ego inflated or getting exaggerated criticism.

Iowa State fans may look at this and think we're a disrespectful fan base, but every fan base has bad apples. When your ten times the size of another fan base your going to have more and possibly louder bad apples.

Players need to understand if they take on twitter, bad comes with the good. And they need to be able to handle it without making themselves look bad responding negatively. I'm in the camp that doesn't necessarily feel sorry for McCabe, he should understand this stuff happen on twitter to public people often. It's the internet.

I do hope he can flush the negative distractions and figure out how to project a stronger attitude. He is a great passer on the floor, and generally spaces it well. The shooting issue will come around, but just needs to come up with more hustle rebounds and steals.
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Very well said. Surely these players know that the fans (and enemies) are stalking them. Yet, so many still use it for chit-chat with their friends. And they often use a vocabulary daily that would get Sally Mason crucified if she used it once.
 
DDThompson said:
There was no humor or perspective in it.
You're telling everyone to relax on this guy.
So where's your post telling everyone to relax on McCabe?
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I found it humorous. You did not. I guess my point was that some people need to step back from the ledge and stop treating this thing like it's the apocalypse. You asking me where my post is telling everyone to relax on McCabe lacks perspective IMHO. Big time student athletes get criticized and take heat. They also are idolized and become the big men on campus. There are perks and there are downsides. IMO no one should ever try and contact a student athlete who doesn't know them, but people do, and the coaches and players know this. And despite knowing it, they still have CHOSEN to have active, public twitter accounts. When you make yourself available and accessible to the crazies, then expect to get harassed.

Our culture of social media is hilarious. While McCabe and others have been raised with it, and have celebrated famous people just for being famous (kardashian, Paris Hilton, etc...), they forgot, or never knew the importance and value of a thing called privacy. They open themselves and their lives up to everyone and enjoy stranger love, but then act all surprised by stranger hate. So while I will never care enough to go out of my way to either follow, love or hate a person in the public arena, I will not waste my breath "telling everyone to relax on McCabe" because you can't argue with crazy. I would much rather tell the mccabes of the world to value their privacy a bit more and make it at least a little difficult for the crazies to invade your life.
 
This thread turned into a bit of something other than some Zach McCabe love. Not here to debate social media outlets, Zach messed up by tweeting, realized it, apologized and removed it. In the end did the right thing. Kid is on our team (I say that in the context of being a Hawk fan, god knows they don't want me on the court for that game tieing shot against the Vadgers). Any team that I have been a part of throughout life, you take everyone's strengths and combine them to kick as much butt as possible. Those teams that had infighting and putting someone down for their shortcomings ultimately exposed major weakness and wound up losers. Let's try not to focus on the reasons we fell short, regroup, take our positives, which have been plentiful this year, and kick some butt in the Big Ten Tournament. We definitely got some scores to settle out there with a few teams. Would love to see us draw Bo Ryan again in the tournament cause we owe them a beating. And if god forbid Zach McCabe get a look at the game winning shot again, I hope he takes it and drills it. If he it that shot the other day, I, along with bout 16000 others would have gone nuts. As it played out though, he missed badly. Get back up dust yourself off and ride again.
 
JonnyGuido said:
I found it humorous. You did not. I guess my point was that some people need to step back from the ledge and stop treating this thing like it's the apocalypse. You asking me where my post is telling everyone to relax on McCabe lacks perspective IMHO.
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I find it humorous everyone joking it up on the guy you're defending; you do not.

I guess my point is that you should also tell people to step back and stop treating a loss or bad shot in a basketball game like it's the apocalypse.

Criticism is one thing. Vitriolic personal attacks are another. If you don't understand the difference then you lack in perspective. Your last paragraph is pretty much dead-on except for washing your hands of criticizing "the crazies" is a lack of perspective. Decent people have to put down the crazies or the crazies will put down decent people.
 
spliff45 said:
You suppose Zach will receive the Shada treatment on Senior night?
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No. The football crowd is drunk. McCabe will get a bigger cheer than Marble, a bunch of people will want to prove how good of a fan they are by cheering for a hard working Iowa white boy.
 
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