Comments on: Another decade of Iowa vs. ISU

By: Jersey Brian

Jersey Brian — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:49:43 +0000

“I challenge hawk fans to name a significant non-conference road victory for the hawks.”

How about January 1, 1957, when the Hawkeyes beat Oregon State in the Rose Bowl, for their first post-season victory.

Now your turn, Cyclone fans: do you know ISU’s first bowl win?

Yepper, it was that big win over Pitt in the 2000 Insight.com bowl. Incidentally, they also got big bad bowl win #2 just 4 years later, taking down Miami, OH in the 2004 Independence Bowl. Of course, I don’t remember that one, having been on the way to Orlando at the time…

By: Hawkzilla

Hawkzilla — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:03:45 +0000

Oh Cyclone, isn’t basic reading courses available at ISU anymore? – first off, nobody was comparing “accomplishments” between Iowa and Nebraska. I was simply pointing out our shared disgust (which you can ask ANY Husker fan and they will agree) with ISU fans & their moronic approach to defining a “successful season”. I would suppose after being consistently horrible year after year one might be tempted to resort to only caring about winning one or two games a year, but I wouldn’t know because no matter how bad Iowa has ever been they haven’t been remotely close to as absolutely pathetic as ISU’s program is and always will be. Clear enough for you or should I get out the chalk board and draw you pictures?

Secondly, how sad that your only defense is to site the accomplishments of a DIFFERENT program than your own. If I were to defend Iowa I surely wouldn’t have to use Ohio State or Michigan to do it. To that, it’s very hard to answer your challenge as ISU fans definition of “significant” is either beating Iowa or Nebraska, while fans of successful college football programs consider all games as “significant”, as they will determine their final ranking. Just off the top of my head, however, I will say the our bowl wins over Florida and LSU were both more significant than anything ISU has done in the past, oh… forever.

GO HAWKS!!!

By: Cyclone Fan

Cyclone Fan — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:23:24 +0000

Trust me Husker fans share nothing with Hawk fans. Nebraska is a college football institution with multiple National Titles. Iowa is not a traditional power despite what Hawk fans believe. I challenge hawk fans to name a significant non-conference road victory for the hawks. Ferentz is 4-10 vs. the Big XII and there is no excuse for being dominated by the 11th best team in the Big XII (ISU). The Hawks are college football pretenders.

By: Hawkzilla

Hawkzilla — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:28:54 +0000

Eric, I am so pleased that you started writing blogs on Iowa football. My only complaint would be that you don’t get the chance to do it more often. Never have I ever heard anyone nail down the ISU game quite like you just did. Simply put, you summed up the entire sorry state of mind of the typical ISU fan. My friends and I have resorted to watching this “no-win” ball game for Iowa from the confines of one of our living rooms, free of the obnoxious ISU fan that could care less if they went 1-11… As long as they beat the Hawkeyes they will have something to hang their straw hat on the rest of the year, and somehow that’s good enough for them. It’s absolutely ridiculous that they don’t get half as jacked-up for the other games, with the exception of Nebraska of course. Believe me, Husker fans share our pain when it comes to the ISU game.