Let me start this article off with a full disclaimer to all Cyclone students today: You are lucky!
My collegiate career at Iowa State included two of the worst eras in school history in both football and basketball. With the former being Gene Chizik’s 5-19 record, and the latter – the Greg McDermott era.
Taking the job to come to Ames from UNI was thought of as a huge victory in the eyes of media pundits, Cyclone faithful, and quite honestly the entire nation. ISU had just come out of the ho hum Wayne Morgan era, where Morgan had lost the locker room and quite honestly just looked like he rolled the ball on the floor and let the boys play.