It's Cincinnati week, so let's get rolling with those predictions for the game against the Bearcats at Jack Trice Stadium.
1) Winner & margin of victory. (ex: Iowa State by six)
2) Total points scored. (ex: 52 points)
3) TIEBREAKER: How many passing yards will Iowa State finish with?
Number one will be the first determiner and then I'll take whoever gets closest to the total points. If needed, I'll go to the passing yards prediction to break a tie.
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So, who wins this week? (Or will it drag out after Tuesday?)
Being a Trump supporter, I hear the confidence. But, I also heard that confidence (Red Wave) in 2020...and it didn't happen.
My concerns:
Have polls made adjustments for the "Trump affect" that they've undervalued in the past?
I spent a better part of three days recently in rural Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and have been dismayed (shocked) at the number of Harris/Walz yard signs. To the point of, "WTH?!" from my perspective, but "Yes!" from the Dem perspective.
Dems had a ton of money thrown at them last few weeks--and star power (Springsteen, Beyonce both added to Swift).
I know too many "Never Trumpers" that just won't give in...no matter how hard I try to convince them.
Cheat vote/constant media BS
Early voting is supposedly going well, but, are those votes simply displacing people who would have voted on Tuesday?
The cheat vote really concerns me. Already solid reports of shenanigans going on.
So, where are we at? Just over 48 hours from polls closing.
By the way, I've been observing early voting...and will be doing so again on Tuesday in the inner city of Milwaukee from noon until the votes are counted.
We are unfortunately unable to go today on short notice, if someone needs tickets let me know, not asking for anything other than a Cyclone fan being in the seats. Section 18.
Is anyone from the board planning on going? Being way out here on the east coast and only being 4 hours way or so, my wife and I are planning on going to the game, doing some gambling and staying the night. WBB has not played on the east coast very often, so we figure this is a good chance to see them. We just saw them in the 11 am game the Monday after homecoming, when I went to the game and jinxed the whole football season
Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone was going and if they had tix yet. Looks like it could be a good crowd as there is not many good tickets left for sale in a building that holds 9300 people for hoops. Hoping to bring my daughter too - but her finals schedule at ISU might preclude her making it...
If tonight is any indication on Netflix's future in live sports streaming I don't think we will be able to expect a huge influx of their money on the next TV contracts. Trying to watch the fights tonight and it sounds like they are crashing everywhere. Live streaming is great until it isn't.
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State head coach Kevin Dresser announced Thursday that 141-pounder Casey Swiderski will miss the 2024-25 season due to a knee injury suffered in practice earlier this week.
“Casey suffered a knee injury earlier this week in practice and will have surgery tomorrow to repair that knee,” Dresser said. “He will use his redshirt for the 2024-25 season, and we look forward to his return in the spring and his final two years of eligibility.”
Swiderski was an All-American at 149 pounds last season after placing seventh at the NCAA Championships and compiled a 24-5 record for the Cyclones.
Listed on the ISU Ticketmaster system. Two (2) good seats in section 113, row 3, seats 7-8 (roughly the NE mat corner); $30 each (face price is $32). There are no parking passes this year for wrestling. Meet us at 7 pm.
ISU is back in action tonight at Hilton Coliseum, hosting St. Thomas at 6:30 pm. The game is being carried on ESPN+. @emiliezeis will have the updates in the thread below.
I almost never watch FoxNews these days, but after listing to a Business Wars podcast, I had to check it out for the election returns. That podcast talked about how all the media used to get their projections from the same set of raw data, although I assume they each processed it in their own way. After the polls missed so badly in 2016 and again missing the red wave in 2018, FoxNews was determined to fix that and set out to improve those projections. I don't recall exactly what they did, but I think they gathering some of their own data. They wanted not only to be accurate, but to be first to call results. And they were apparantly very successful in the next election with whatever they did.
FoxNews was the first to call Arizona for Biden. That irritated Trump and he called them and told them to retract the projection, which they didn't. As a result they suffered in their ratings as conservatives turned to another, much smaller conservative outlet. As a result of that ratings hit the podcast told they gave extra coverage to the Trump claims the election was stolen. They lost one of their top personalities, who quit in protest since they knew there was no basis for the allegations. But the network kept driving that narrative to get those viewers back. And they did come back.
So anyway, long story short (with longer story below), I turned to FoxNews first to see how they called the race. They were indeed ahead of the other channels as I flipped back and forth cross-checking projects. At one time NBC had called more states, but that didn't stay that way for long. So I will let the many of you conservatives know that I mostly watched FoxNews coverage of the election. There were times their commentary was a bit too much, especially when the early returns were indicating something special was happening. They started to gloat a bit, but it was far too early for that, which I think they realized when their group-think went too far. They pulled back a bit.
The other thing I noticed while checking out the other major networks is the over-the-air guys sure broadcast a lot of commercials. It seemed far less on FoxNews or maybe I just didn't notice because they kept a side bar and ticker on during commercials.
I recently listened to a Business Wars podcast on CNN vs. FoxNews. These podcasts are usually pretty good, but I was particularly intrigued by this one leading up to the election. It covered the history of CNN starting a 24/7 news channel amidst much skepticism that there is that much news to report and more importantly would have much viewer interest. That was proven wrong especially with the ratings it got from covering the first Gulf War.
Upstart FoxNews had trouble breaking in to the market because the control Time Warner had on the cable market. Time Warner bought CNN from Ted Turner in the early days and also owned many cable stations. We all know FoxNews did finally break through. They were focused on the conservative viewpoint because of the belief the other news outlets were biased toward the liberal viewpoint. I guess that should be a surprise to no one just understanding where these major media players are located. They are in some of the most liberal locations in the country, whether it's New York or LA. Or even Chicago.
The FoxNews formula worked not just because they captured conservative viewers, but also because their shows were interesting to the other side and in the early days would have a liberal voice on some of their regular shows. I never thought they had the strongest liberal personality, but he probably knew his place as the Washington Generals of the channel.
CNN had wanted to cover the news objectively and stay away from leaning one way or another. That seemed to be more true in the early days, although most media had a liberal slant. My theory is they are located in liberal cities as I mentioned before. I suppose when Turner sold to Time Warner, the shift from Atlanta ownership to New York may have started the shift, whether it was intentional or not.
FoxNews was a ratings juggernaut, but they started to fumble the ball with controversies costing them their CEO and best personalities. Calling the 2020 Arizona race early cost them ratings, but their ratings recovered by fueling the stolen election narrative. That is shameful as it riled a lot of people up while knowing it was a bogus claim. It's pretty bad when you have what you hope is reliable media, making decisions based on what drives ratings. Journalism is dead.
