From: bohy6489@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Thank God Earl B. is gone (Re: UNI vs. Iowa in '94???????)
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:55:10 GMT
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <Oct07.202704.70439@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, guest@ulysses.atmos.colostate.edu (Guest) writes:
> 
> At least that would give one of the teams bragging rights. And, who knows,
> maybe Iowa State can get lucky one year (Yeah, right!) and we can put the Iowa
> hex behind us! 

Kind of like the way UNI put the ISU hex behind them this year?  I about cried
in the first UNI-ISU game (I am a UNI marching band alum) when we were up
*38-0*, and then Darrell Mudra went to the conservative game and blew it.  The
same heartbreak befell Earl Bruce the next year (not that he didn't deserve it
for screwing up the program completely).

Admittedly, I would prefer to see ISU beat Iowa...
 
> Does anyone know how good UNI actually is?  Are they full of seniors, or are 
> a balanced team? Also, how has there recruiting been over the last couple of 
> years? It would seem to be a tough act, competing against U of I and ISU for
> potential recruits. 

Actually, it is a fairly "senior-oriented" team this year.  But I don't think
that they will be awful after this year.  Even Earl Bruce had a talented team,
he just didn't realize that there's no success for "three yards and a cloud of
dust" in I-AA football.  Look for UNI to be competitive every year, unless Earl
Bruce comes back to coach here.

> Finally, how has UNI been on filling the UNI-dome? Doesn't it seat about 20,000
> fans? It's a great place to have a ball game, I played 2 high school games up 
> there in 1980 and 81 while on the Cedar Rapids Washington team when we played
> Cedar Falls. It was fun, and the fans had a great time. I know that they fill 
> it for most Basketball games.....
 
The Dome seats 16,000 for football, and around 22,500 for basketball (but they
only do that when Iowa or ISU comes to town - it is usually around 10,000 for
basketball).  It is rarely if ever full, at least that was the case when I was
in undergrad.  I think most people still go to see the marching band (IMHO
better than ISU's, or at least it used to be).  It's a great place if you like
domes and artificial turf.

> Just some thoughts.......
> 
> J. Knowles                         "At least ISU has a good basketball team"
> knowles@tachu.atmos.colostate.edu         - Disgruntled ISU alum

Maybe UNI will have a better team in b-ball this year, too...

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ps - at least you have Earl Bruce at Colorado State now.  Hiring him was the
single largest mistake made in football history at this school.  Hope he is
serving your program better than he did ours...