Cyclone Country is unusually silent. This summer has been about as eventful as an ISU Railroad Club kegger. Unlike years of the past, the only news emerging from the Jacobson Building is good news.

Iowa State signs a top 10 recruiting class in men’s basketball. Curtis Stinson opts to stay in school. Softball team lets go of head coach Ruth Crowe (by most accounts a move in the right direction). Wrestling brings in the highest rated recruiting class in the nation. Football finds itself in several pre-season top 25 polls, and Jason Berryman returns to work out with the team.

Where is all the negative news? The assaults? Public intoxications? Or at the very least, noise disturbances? Where is the obligatory “ISU athletes are poor representatives of the university” editorial?

Things are going so swimmingly, I half expect to hear that Seneca Wallace and Troy Davis have been granted additional years of eligibility just for the heck of it. You may be thinking this streak of not finding athletes in the police blotter is a cause for celebration. Well, consider the rest of the college football world.

USC cornerback Eric Wright was dismissed from the team this month after police discovered 136 pills of ecstasy in his apartment (I have never been on “E,” but doesn’t one tablet get the job done?), as well as an additional suspicion of rape. Florida State quarterback Wyatt Sexton was suspended from the team after authorities found him semi-nude on a residential street proclaiming he was God, (bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase “Hail Mary.” Sorry, I have heard too many awful Jay Leno jokes.) Ohio State kicker Jonathan Skeete was suspended for trafficking marijuana. Not to be outdone, Tennessee and South Carolina have combined to have 30 players arrested in the past year and a half.

I’m not saying Iowa State has been the Vienna Boys’ Choir in the past year, but their behavior during the summer should be commended. I’m pondering whether Dan McCarney has his team locked up in a house on Beach Avenue for an upcoming reality series on ESPNU to keep them out of trouble.

“In this week’s episode, the group welcomes new house guest Jason Berryman. Meanwhile, Tony Yelk and Bret Culbertson form an alliance while discussing the most painful way to miss game-winning kicks.”

This Cyclone football team has a chance to be the most successful in ISU history. They return 17 starters, second only to Texas A&M in the Big 12, off a team that garnered the school’s second-ever win at a bowl game.

The schedule is once again favorable, as behemoths Texas and Oklahoma stay away from Ames and pick on our little friends from Lawrence, Kan. instead. Perhaps this summer of inactivity will be a good omen for the fall.

It may be difficult to find good material to write about during this scarce summer session, but I will be content to write my next article on Onterrio Smith’s “Whizzinator” if it means a trip to Houston for the Big 12 Championship in December. Knock on wood.