It always seems that when players leave a team, they change their social media profile pics to something other than their prior team photos.

Yet that’s not the case with LD, DF or MK.

LD even has a pic with the team spraying BF in celebration.

Seems like there is potentially something more than coach/player relationships, which has been the popular reason on this board.

Could be NIL $ opportunities.
Could be style of play opportunities.
Could be grad school.
Could be other things also.

And could be coach relationship although they obviously liked BF during the recruiting process and will like other coaches during their new recruiting process with no guarantee that what they see is what they get once the new season starts. They could easily not get along with the new coach after signing on to play and hitting the court.

If I was a confident freshman coming in, I would view it as immediate playing time opportunity. They want to start day one if they can.

Anyone have any idea when we will be able to choose our seat locations for next football season? TIA

Pretty good group of five overnight visitors this weekend, which includes in-state tight end commit Keaton Roskop who will no doubt be doing his best to persuade the other four to become Cyclones. I've also confirmed several other single-day visitors for Saturday's practice.

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Appreciate CBF but I’m at the point I’d be excited to see some fresh blood coaching the women’s program. The program needs a shot of energy. Much like Matt Campbell did for football.

Over the years there has been some smoke around Bill and the way he coaches. Sometimes smoke really does equal a fire.

Iowa State Media Relations

HOUSTON, Texas –Iowa State senior Gabe Kalscheur has been selected to play in the 2023 NABC-Reese’s College All-Star Game. Kalscheur is the eighth Cyclone selected to play in the game.

The All-Star game will take place on Friday, March 31 at 3:30 p.m. at NRG Stadium in Houston as part of Reese’s Final Four Friday. The game will be broadcast live on CBS Sports Network, and admission to the game and Reese’s Final Four Friday is free.

In two years at Iowa State, Kalscheur appeared in 68 games for the Cyclones, leading Iowa State to back-to-back NCAA Tournament Appearances and a Sweet 16 trip in 2022. He scored 761 points, while connecting on 113 3-pointers as a Cyclone. In his five-year career that started at Minnesota, Kalscheur scored 1,677 points over 156 games. He tallied 293 3-pointers and 166 steals, while playing nearly 5,000 minutes on the floor.

Kalscheur is a member of the West All-Stars, coached by Texas A&M’s Buzz Williams.

Iowa State NABC All-Star Game Participants
1985 – Barry Stevens
1986 – Jeff Hornacek
1988 – Jeff Grayer
1995 – Fred Hoiberg
2005 – Jared Homan
2013 – Will Clyburn
2017 – Deonte Burton
2023 – Gabe Kalscheur

Anyone a little worried about the weather today? Ever since the derecho, I get little PTSD every time strong storms and wind roll through. I still have a few trees on the west side of the property, so they get watched closely.

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Does anyone know if she is playing for the East or West right now on ESPN?

If Lexi goes to TOE I don't know what I will do ?????

Has been hired as Cornerback Coach at Northwestern.

I am willing to be wrong - but I swear I heard MANY times from people on the board here (some of the WBB fans here are pretty in the know) that Morgan was definitely done playing basketball, and would graduate and move on with her life.

Am I wrong about that? Does it surprise people here that she is electing to take another year and finish up playing elsewhere?

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I just heard from Grant that he’ll be in town for a one-day visit on April 21st. Pretty big news to get him on campus for the first time with Clanton on board.

Just a rumor (and there are plenty), but it sounds like ESPN wants OU and UW in the BIg 12, and might be willing to make a "signing" bonus. And it is very possible that BY will waive the GOR (for a few years). Could it be the Big10 is more interested in Stanford and Cal for the academics and the research, some thing that OU and UW don't bring anywhere near as much.

Also find it interesting that the PAC turning down BYU a few years back is likely to be the nail in the coffin for their conference. If they had taken BYU, they would be able to sign a contract for roughly 4M more per school, which including the estimate for their next contract, would put them up near the Big 12, but they could not get past the religious part. Supposedly, ESPN values BYU quite a bit, and it would have resulted in a far larger package for negotiations now if the PAC 12 had them.

And it seems that BY wants potentially 4 non-football schools, he wants Gonzaga and potentially 3 schools around NY City? He clearly is focused on NYC and wants to to own it in basketball. Could it be he is going to use the 100M to pay for these 4 basketball schools until 2031 when he plans on putting up the Basketball TV contract on its own? Got to say I love the way this guy is marketing the conference, in non traditional ways.

I listened to interviews wit Poteat, Pauley, Noel, and Tampa. [Good questions, Bill.]

It appears that Randy Pete is vying to become Kai Black's agent. 😂

Some good tidbits here from the Cyclones' new cornerbacks coach...

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After three days off the practice field, the Cyclones were back at it on Tuesday afternoon. Here's the group that I had confirmed in town yesterday. Although none of these recruits have offers yet, there were still nice contingents from Council Bluffs (IA) Lewis Central and Des Moines (IA) North, which has a couple FBS/FCS prospects on its roster following David Caulker, who of course will join the Cyclones over the summer from the 2023 class. The 2025 ATH Jayden McGregory has some nice upside at 6-foot-2, as I think he could play somewhere in the secondary at the P5 level. He was also very good on the basketball court this past season as a sophomore.

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