It's setting up to be another big month of June for the Iowa State coaching staff. Here's a breakdown of who's already booked for Ames, as well as some others who are likely to schedule trips.

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2025 Kansas TE camps at Iowa State, collects second P5 offer

Posts in other threads seem to indicate we know some starters will be suspended. Do we?

Vid is about ancient civilizations found by accident with no (or little) explanation. MOST interesting is the link within the article about an ancient technologically advanced society that lived underground about 2,000 feet above the grand canyon. Not politics or sports so actually interesting!

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Rising sophomore QB puts on show in Ames, lands ISU offer

For some background, I am inheriting what I would call a modest amount of farmland. Although I grew up around agriculture, have no real first hand experience in crop farming. We have no intentions of selling the land but to rent it out on a yearly basis. So just looking for some advice in this area. A few questions come to mind.

1. This land has been rented previously, and I'm sure the renter would like to continue to farm it. How do I know what a fair price per acre is? Just a hunch but I think he was given a pretty decent haircut in the past for personal relationship reasons so don't just want to charge what he was paying previously.
2. Should I want to explore other bids on it, how does a guy go about that? Is there some service/source/website, etc. that you can go to, where you can find potentially new renters?
3. The whole rental contract thing will be new to me, anything to be on the look out for in that regard where I don't end up getting screwed over down the road?
4. Finally, should something happen to me, and my wife/daughter don't want to deal with the headache, if someone wanted to engage and hire a Farm Property Manager, where would they look for something like that? I'd hate for them to just sell it if it becomes a burden on them which I could see as this isn't really their thing, but paying someone to deal with it could be appealing.


Thanks. If anyone is willing to pass along a contact info to chat offline, I would be receptive and appreciative of that as well. I'd buy you a beer or 12 at Jack Trice sometime.

I was walking down Lincoln Way from the Big Acai Bowl place toward the Iowa State Center and noticed a Collins Aerospace logo on the window of the Kingland building where CVS Pharmacy is located, or where Peoples Bar once was. I had seen it before but today I had time on my hands, so I decided to go in and check it out.

There was no directory inside so I looked around. I didn't see anything so I got in the elevator where it said Collins was on floor two. So what the heck, I took a ride up and found the Collins suite. It looked dark inside. But there was a doorbell on the outside so I pushed it. I peering through the glass door and eventually a young woman emerges. I tell her I worked at Collins for 41½ years and was curious about the facility.

We talked for about 20 minutes and although she had only been an employee for about 5 months, we knew some people in common and had an interesting discussion. I was glad to see Collins try to renew that connection with Iowa State. Jack Cosgrove had it going strong, but somewhere along the line Human Resources pushed for more diversity and it seemed to weaken that Iowa State connection. Also as hardware designs gave way to software, the bar to becoming an engineer was lower. Many schools could pump out software engineers or at least people with some software skills that were hired into engineering positions.

So it was good to see one of Jack's people getting that connection to Iowa State back. It's good for Collins and good for Iowa State. And good for helping to keep talent in state when most engineers have to leave the state to find a job.

I see where he posted that he is announcing his decision on Facebook Live on Wednesday. I see we are in his top 10. Do we really stand a chance with him? I know Coach Langs was the connection with him.
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Long Texas CB recaps unofficial visit, camp experience in Ames

Bill, I propose a separate OFF TOPIC POLITICAL Forum. Leave this one for more important discussions like Neffix, Farming and Rabies You wouldn't even have to monitor it. Enter at your own risk. Fight til last man standing. If necessary you could throw in additional topics like Religion. I know I can just ignore them so this is half hearted but it's hard to ignore a train wreck(s).

Iowa State Media Relations

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State women’s basketball head coach Bill Fennelly announced the addition of Alisa Williams to the 2023-24 roster on Wednesday. Williams joins the Cyclones after spending her freshman season with LSU as part of the Tigers’ National Championship squad.

“We are excited that Alisa will be joining the Iowa State family,” said Fennelly. “Alisa was someone we recruited very hard in high school. She has a very versatile game that fits the way we like to play. I think using this upcoming season as a redshirt year will be very beneficial to Alisa in all areas.”

Alisa Williams // 6-2 // F // Denton, Texas

Williams appeared in 20 games for LSU, playing a total of 58 minutes for the Tigers as a true freshman. She scored 18 points and pulled down 20 rebounds while adding two blocks as a reserve. She tallied career-highs in points (10) and rebounds (7) against Western Carolina on November 13th as LSU ran away with a 107-34 victory.

As a left-handed guard for Braswell High School, Williams led the Bengals to a 35-3 record as a senior while advancing to the Class 6A Region I championship game. She averaged a combined 17.8 points per game and 7.0 rebounds per game over her junior and senior seasons and was named the Denton Record-Chronicle’s All-Area Offensive Player of the Year as a junior.

As a sophomore, Williams helped lead Braswell to its first District Championship and earned a spot on the Texas Girls Coaches Association Class 5A All-State Team. Williams played for her mother, head coach Lisa Williams, for three seasons at Braswell after transferring from Guyer High School at the conclusion of her freshman year.

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In-state DB talks latest ISU camp, PWO offer

The coaching staff is back at it later this afternoon and evening for the first of back-to-back events this week to wrap up the prospect camp slate. As you've become accustomed to, I'll be posting some news and notes as well as some video from Tuesday's event. Here's an early list of some names I'll be keeping an eye on, plus there will be some more as the night moves along.

Let's start with the 2024 class, where at this point Byron (Minn.) rising senior offensive lineman Zach Vanderpool looks to be the headliner given his early offer list.

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How confident would you be if, say, due to "events" (whatever they may be) if our lineup for the first game looked something like:

QB - Rocco Becht, J. J. Kohl, JC guy
RB - Norton, Sanders, Harris
HB - Klotz
TE - Dean, Burkle, Keller, Moore
WR - Noel, Stanley, Higgins, Bitter, Gaines, Ngoyi, Adam's
OL - Miller, Hufford, Simmons, Peterson, Maro, Hastert, Neal, Sauser, Funto, Treiber

NG - Orange, Smith, Singleton
RE - Peterson, Ezeogu, Same
DE - Oneyedim, Jones, Late Tranfer
LB - Vaughn, McLaughlin, Lovett, Ellis, Willich, Imming, Ralph
CB - Tampa, Purchase, Porter, Crosby
S - Freyler, Verdon, Cooper, McGhee, Howard

P - Perkins
PK - Gilbert
KO - Bittman

I didn't add any Freshmen who may make an impact. My major concern is QB based on this scenario.

Iowa State Media Relations

AMES, Iowa – Fueled by the momentum generated from three-consecutive NCAA Women’s Tennis Tournament appearances, including a run to the 2023 Elite Eight, Iowa State Athletics has unveiled plans for an indoor and outdoor tennis complex for the program, Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard announced today.

“It is truly amazing what our women’s tennis program has achieved over the last three seasons, especially in light of the fact that we do not have facilities that are comparable to other peer institutions, but we believe that this plan will allow us to build off our recent successes in a financially responsible manner while quickly addressing the program’s facility shortcomings,” Pollard said.

“We are grateful for Ames Racquet and Fitness Center and the ISU Research Park for agreeing to come alongside us to create a unique partnership that will help the department get this project to the finish line,” he added.

The Iowa State Research Park will purchase an existing four-court indoor tennis bubble, and expand it to six courts, construct six new outdoor courts on the property, and a team building to include amenities including a team room, locker room and training room. Pending Iowa Board of Regents approval in September, the completed facility will be leased to ISU Athletics. The six outdoor courts are scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2023 with the indoor court expansion and team facility slated for a fall 2024 completion.

“The success of our entire Athletics Department, embodied most-recently by the 2023 women’s tennis campaign, is important to all of us who wear Cardinal and Gold.,” said Iowa State Research Park President Rick Sanders. “The ISURP is excited to be the future home of Cyclone Tennis for many years to come.”

Iowa State’s women’s tennis team currently utilizes the Bruce McKee Indoor Tennis Complex, which opened in 2017 adjacent to the Sukup Basketball Complex, features two practice courts for the Cyclones to use as well as a team room and locker room. Once the tennis program vacates the McKee Complex, the facility will be converted into a practice facility for the Cyclone volleyball team.

In the event of inclement weather, the Cyclones currently travel to Urbandale to utilize the indoor facility at Life Time Fitness. ISU has played outdoors at the Ames High School facility for the past several years and hosted the first three rounds of the 2023 NCAA Tournament there.

The Cyclones finished the 2023 season 21-6 overall while going 7-2 in Big 12 action to finish in a tie for third place in the league standings. ISU advanced to the ITA National Indoor Championships and later reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships, both feats that have never been accomplished in program history.

The seven league victories were the most in school history and included the program's first-ever win against Oklahoma State and the first against Baylor in Waco in the series. Iowa State posted 12 wins against Top 50 opponents with wins against No. 18 UCLA, No. 10 Miami, No. 9 Vanderbilt and No. 1 Texas to reach the semifinals at the ITA National Indoor Championships. The win against the top-ranked Longhorns was the first against UT and the first against a No. 1 team in school history.

In its third-straight NCAA Tournament, Iowa State rolled past Drake (4-0), No. 22 Wisconsin (4-1) and No. 20 UCLA (4-1) to reach the final site. The Cyclones fell in the quarterfinals to eventual runner-up, No. 4 NC State, 4-3.

Brilliant! Bet it was Jamie's idea! 😉

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Cyclone coaches get extended camp look at 2025 QB

LSU transfer Alisa Williams, a 6-2 Guard/forward, is joining the Twister Sisters. She was a freshman last year from Denton, Texas.

Last few years, we were guard heavy. It appears we will be forward/post heavy going forward.

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2025 3-star recaps recent ISU prospect camp visit

No other explanation why that phantom foul on Denver against Butler would be upheld. As in college football, why bother with replay if you're not going believe what you see.

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ISU makes solid first impression, says 2024 Florida DB

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Iowa State pitches versatile role to 2024 Georgia DE