Did you notice Carver-Hawkeye Arena? Sure, it's not as though CHA is ever really a madhouse, but it was as if this was an exhibition or some sort of early-season scrimmage. There were open seats everywhere! The student section barely exists! I know Iowa is not a great basketball program on a yearly basis, but come on, people. Even the lowly Hawks deserve better than this. (Wait, what am I saying? No they don't. Stay home and save your money if you want. Totally your call.)
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Hey now.
It was the SONS OF ANARCHY season finale last night. Iowans can’t help it if they’d rather watch great TV instead of shitty basketball.
And
You forgot about the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, something’s gotta warm up the lives of Iowan farmers during the beginning of December.
They took the bar, the whole fucking bar!
by recoveringfratguy on Dec 2, 2009 12:21 PM CST up reply actions
Ok, seriously
Send most of the guys after the Irishman, leave two or three to kill Zobelle. Is this really that complicated?
"I don't know. I don't know. [waves hand dismissively] First, you'd have to tell me what a 'BCS' is. I don't know."
by ReadingRambler on Dec 2, 2009 12:30 PM CST up reply actions
But then we wouldn't get the Godfather III ending.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Dec 2, 2009 12:38 PM CST up reply actions
Yep, we used to fill the place up every night
We also used to have a pretty great program too, but…yeah.
Anyway, I thought the student section was actually pretty lively last night, but maybe it was just the section I was in and it didn’t come across well on TV. It was pretty full (free tickets definitely helped) and generally into the game. The sides of the arena were pretty close to full too, although still to many empty seats for my liking. But my god….there’s just NO ONE behind either basket, aside from the band on the south side. I’m sure that makes it look even worse on TV than it actually is.
Where did they move the students to?
I saw the section behind the basket that was empty aside from the band (which is where the students used to be) and thought that there were no students there (as usual).
It's on the same side of the court, but it's in the SE corner now
For all I know it may still theoretically extend all the way over to the band, but everyone sits in that corner (which means we are exactly like Devan Bawinkle!) and the first couple of sections on the east side of the court.
Alford is coaching in front of 11k - 13k
a night against teams like Nicholls State. ONce he gets into conference play that goes to 15K-18K.
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
That's what happens
….. when a dick coaches a bunch of dick players for a bunch of dick fans to come see.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Dec 2, 2009 4:17 PM CST up reply actions
I was at that game
and Carver was deafening. I’d still put that game in my top-five for most electric sporting events I have ever attended. To see a half empty CHA now is just sad.
Watching that is depressing
partly because of the events surrounding that game, and partly because I can’t remember the last time the crowd at CHA got into the heads of the opposing team like that.
When was the last time that happened? 2005, maybe?
Tom Davis was a system coach, too
But when he started at Iowa, he had Roy Marble, BJ Armstrong and Ed Horton as sophomores. Davis had down years, too. I like what Lickliter has done, but Alford players have screwed him over. If they all would of left at once, we would be in a much better spot. I like our freshman and sophomores, but they are young in the system. All system teams struggle when they are young (just like Tom Davis Hawkeye teams did).
We have fair weather Iowa basketball fans. We have GREAT football fans in Iowa, but not great in basketball. Great fans are there in the down times, too.
I don’t think it’s just the quality of the team, it’s also because the style of play is incredibly boring. People want to watch athletes, not jump shooters running down the clock and shooting desperation threes.
I check cheddar like a food inspector
by SpanishJohnny on Dec 2, 2009 1:56 PM CST up reply actions
I would submit that people
want to watch winning basketball, no matter what the style of play is. Butler gets good crowds for their home games, and you could hardly call this brand of basketball exciting.
I've yet to watch the crotch grabbers
but my guess would be that the important matches at Carver are going to be significantly more exciting than the basketball games.
/O'keefe'd
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Dec 2, 2009 3:55 PM CST reply actions
Even matches that some would consider less important
will be more exciting than this basketball team. Watching the Hawkeyes wrestle at CHA is a great time.
by The Mexican't on Dec 2, 2009 4:21 PM CST up reply actions
I still maintain that any given year
the Iowa-Iowa State match is the most exciting event on the whole winter athletics calendar. Nothing can beat that atmosphere, especially when both teams are top tier… Ironically, the OSU match and the Minnesota match closely follow.
/O'keefe'd
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Dec 2, 2009 5:22 PM CST up reply actions
Every wrestling match is more exciting than every basketball game every played
Known fact
"If Ron Zook were an ice cream flavor, it would be praline and retard"
-Garth Algar
*ever played
typing fail
"If Ron Zook were an ice cream flavor, it would be praline and retard"
-Garth Algar
Wrestling is boring as hell when there are no steel chairs involved, and also kinda gay
Known and significantly more widely accepted fact.
But uh, GO HAWKS WOOOO NATIONAL CHAMPS WOOOOOOOOOO
If you're gonna go all 14 year old immature kid on me
Then basketball is just as gay, “boxing out” is straight jamming your ass into someone’s pelvis. Basketball is one of the only “contact” sports where contact is penalized. Basically it’s for pussies.
Wrestling is only boring to people who know nothing about it, wrestling is only thought to be gay by people who know nothing about it. So go watch your pumpkin pushers take flops and whine about getting slapped on the arm.
"If Ron Zook were an ice cream flavor, it would be praline and retard"
-Garth Algar
I notice you didn't mention hockey
If you call hockey “gay”, Gary Roberts will punch you in the nads.
"I don't know. I don't know. [waves hand dismissively] First, you'd have to tell me what a 'BCS' is. I don't know."
by ReadingRambler on Dec 2, 2009 8:38 PM CST up reply actions
lol wrestling fans are the best
I was kidding with the gay part, because I know it makes you dudes flip out. It is boring as hell though, at least to me. You guys could stand to drop the inferiority complex though.
No inferiority complex to be found
I’m aware of where wrestling stands on a national level, it is a niche sport, but it is home to the best athletes on the planet.
Again, it’s boring to you because you don’t understand it.
"If Ron Zook were an ice cream flavor, it would be praline and retard"
-Garth Algar
I've grown up with the sport...
so I’ve always had a soft spot for it. Some of my earliest memories are waiting in line for that delicious strawberry soft serve in the CHA concourse as Tom Brands kicked ass in the background. I always sympathize with those who don’t particularly enjoy the sport though… it’s kinda an acquired taste.
As for the gay/steel chair thing… is there anything more boring than watching the same retards pretend to hit each other every Monday/Thursday/whatever night?
/O'keefe'd
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Dec 2, 2009 10:25 PM CST up reply actions
I don't actually watch pro wrestling and haven't since I was like 12
It was a joke, dudes.
Obviously someone is seeing his first CHA game this year
This was better than the earlier games. Not good, but still
It never gets to be easy
Damn I love Acie Earl's hair.
It’s a shame my mom wouldn’t let me cut my hair like that as an 8 year old.
this hair--------------------->
i don't wife em...i one night em
by smokinthereiff on Dec 2, 2009 6:08 PM CST up reply actions
Your mom is lame
That haircut is badass and I wish it’d make a comeback. Plus, everyone should be allowed to emulate their hero. My hero when I was eight was Chris Kingsbury, and I have endeavored to live my life the same way he did. Drunk and awesome.
Not sure if it's sad or cool
But I definitely had that haircut. Probably more in the sad/pathetic category.
It's not that I'm lazy, Bob, it's that I just don't care
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