*Game Thread* Iowa State 9/5

[95UNIGRAD]

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Really. You gripe about the parking? Have you been to Iowa City for a game?

What did you expect at an event with 60,000 people and thousands more staying outside the stadium during the game?

I've been to a lot of games (Baylor at Texas, Alabama v. Missouri in the SEC championship last year). Parking in Ames is wonderful by comparison.

Yes, I have. It sucks much worse than Ames. Still not happy with walking nearly 3 miles from west of Trice on Saturday night. I don't think there's necessarily a reasonable solution either. Not blaming anything on ISU, just making an observation.

Sometimes we don't realize how easy we have it in Cedar Falls for ease of getting in and out of the game until we do something like that in 90+ degree heat. Count our blessings, I guess.

[Kyle]

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I always park in the K-Mart parking lot which is about the same distance to Jack Trice as Finkbine is to Kinnick.

[cydave]

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Yes, I have. It sucks much worse than Ames. Still not happy with walking nearly 3 miles from west of Trice on Saturday night. I don't think there's necessarily a reasonable solution either. Not blaming anything on ISU, just making an observation.

Sometimes we don't realize how easy we have it in Cedar Falls for ease of getting in and out of the game until we do something like that in 90+ degree heat. Count our blessings, I guess.

What time did you get to the game?

[sivert]

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Did anybody correctly call the "touchback" on the Bundrage play that got reviewed? The call was out of bounds at the 4, but it got reviewed and they ruled him in-bounds. Therefore losing the ball and it hitting the pylon was a touchback by rule. One of the ISU fans near me correctly called it right away, even before the review. Everybody else was upset, but that was the correct call.

I did. Posted it before the replay here.
I saw this happen a few years ago. The runner fumbled and the ball bounced diagonally and out of bounds just past the end zone pylon. If it had bounced and gone out at the one yard line, the ball would have been placed at the one. But because it went into the end zone and out, it was at the 20 for the other team.
Personally, I think it would make more sense to make the rule that it gets put at the 20, and no change of possession.

[Newsbreaker]

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I knew what the result should be as soon as we saw a replay. Still impressed they called it correctly.

I don't know who bent over for whom, but ISU ain't trotting out MAC or MW flags during pregame only because Texas wants it that way, and it will change as soon as Texas decides it should. If the inevitable result is 4 conferences as a separated top-division, ISU is just as likely as not to be the (possibly only) odd man out. They were minutes away once already.

I'd agree the atmosphere in Ames was much better than in years passed, but remember, there is ISU football in early September, and then there's ISU football. They sold out their expanded stadium for two in-state games, but no others (so far) non November, they'll have 50,000 with 15,000 of those dressed up as bleachers.

When they took the field on Saturday, I said to my wife "never have so many been so excited about so little." It's true. If we had the kind of record they have, the Dome would have 500 people in it for each home game, and I don't say that as a compliment.

Jamie Pollard is a dork, but he's a hell of a salesman.

Oh, and lol at NDSU as the "power broker" in the MVFC.

[95UNIGRAD]

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What time did you get to the game?

About 6:15 or a little after...had prior commitments and couldn't get there any earlier. Met someone there and got in shortly before kickoff, so no worries in the whole scheme of things. If it hadn't been so horrible outside, I might have enjoyed the walk.

[cydave]

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About 6:15 or a little after...had prior commitments and couldn't get there any earlier. Met someone there and got in shortly before kickoff, so no worries in the whole scheme of things. If it hadn't been so horrible outside, I might have enjoyed the walk.

Ahh ok.

When leaving, I'm assuming you went south to HWY 30 and then east to 35?
If so, you can save yourself about 30 minutes and a headache by taking side streets north to 13th St and then east to 35.

[95UNIGRAD]

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Ahh ok.

When leaving, I'm assuming you went south to HWY 30 and then east to 35?
If so, you can save yourself about 30 minutes and a headache by taking side streets north to 13th St and then east to 35.

I actually live about on the West Des Moines/Waukee border, so I just took Lincoln Way west then South Dakota south and took 30 over to Hwy 17. Worked really well.

[cydave]

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I actually live about on the West Des Moines/Waukee border, so I just took Lincoln Way west then South Dakota south and took 30 over to Hwy 17. Worked really well.

Yep, that's definitely the best way to get back to the WDM area.

[dan_beeding]

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Yes, I have. It sucks much worse than Ames. Still not happy with walking nearly 3 miles from west of Trice on Saturday night. I don't think there's necessarily a reasonable solution either. Not blaming anything on ISU, just making an observation.

Sometimes we don't realize how easy we have it in Cedar Falls for ease of getting in and out of the game until we do something like that in 90+ degree heat. Count our blessings, I guess.

I have a tough time believing you parked 3 miles away.

[95UNIGRAD]

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I have a tough time believing you parked 3 miles away.

You can believe whatever you want. I have typically parked west of the stadium every time I've gone down there, so that was my plan (for ease of getting out also). Saturday night I started at just west of the stadium and ended up driving further and further out until I finally found something - ended up a block or two west of Beedle Drive. Good thing I'm in good shape and half speed-walked/half jogged to get there in time. I got a ride back to my car from the people I was meeting there afterwards, and it was 2.7 miles. Figuring in the walk from their spot on the SE corner of Hilton to the stadium, it had to be right about 3 miles total. I'm sure the people sitting around me appreciated my scent.

[cydave]

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You can believe whatever you want. I have typically parked west of the stadium every time I've gone down there, so that was my plan (for ease of getting out also). Saturday night I started at just west of the stadium and ended up driving further and further out until I finally found something - ended up a block or two west of Beedle Drive. Good thing I'm in good shape and half speed-walked/half jogged to get there in time. I got a ride back to my car from the people I was meeting there afterwards, and it was 2.7 miles. Figuring in the walk from their spot on the SE corner of Hilton to the stadium, it had to be right about 3 miles total. I'm sure the people sitting around me appreciated my scent.

You parked all the way to almost Beedle Dr?!
My God man, parking at Kmart would have been a fraction of the distance.
There had to have been parking in at least campustown area or the Memorial Union parking ramp.

[95UNIGRAD]

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You parked all the way to almost Beedle Dr?!
My God man, parking at Kmart would have been a fraction of the distance.
There had to have been parking in at least campustown area or the Memorial Union parking ramp.

Just wasn't familiar enough with the area to know about those other options. Wish I would have known ahead of time. Oh well, live and learn - at least I got some good exercise Saturday.

[dan_beeding]

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Just wasn't familiar enough with the area to know about those other options. Wish I would have known ahead of time. Oh well, live and learn - at least I got some good exercise Saturday.

Earlier in the thread you were talking about how atrocious parking is there. It sounds like it was more operator error.

[95UNIGRAD]

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Earlier in the thread you were talking about how atrocious parking is there. It sounds like it was more operator error.

Compared to what I used to experience there, you could understand where I was coming from when I kept going west and finding nothing. But, yeah, in retrospect, I should have had more of a plan and not relied on what worked in previous trips to Ames.