As much as I like Dan McCarney, the Cyclone football team is not restoring a tradition of winning. In fact, we're gettin' the wood put to us almost on a weekly basis. McCarney is seriously lacking in that department. McCarney's job is not in question because attendance is up when compared to the last couple of years Jim Walden coached. High attendance equals high revenue.
High revenue equals job security.
Student support in the minds of ISU officials means student money spent on football tickets, not the actual backing of the team. If this is not the case, and ISU cared about student support, then they would have let students celebrate like every other school in the country that wins a big game. The pigs could have been called off, but they weren't. It burns me to think there were actually fans who spent the night in jail because they were elated and wanted to celebrate the ISU victory. So I send a thumbs up to the Cyclone football team.