Way to go, Chad Calek and Steve Borgman. It’s important that we fans support the guys who are gonna be out there in the trenches against the Hawks. Heck, we’re Cyclone fans. We’ll hoot and holler even if we’re getting beat like UNI.

This could easily happen. If it does, it won’t be because of our players. We have some real talent lined up out there. This is one of the best ISU teams ever.

If we lose it will be because of McCarney. I hate to be the one to say it, but McCarney is a $200,000-a-year chump who can’t motivate himself, let alone his players.

How else do you explain us falling apart every fourth quarter for the last two years? We clearly have the talent to drop the Hawks like sack of flour.

I just don’t think that the players believe they can do it. Well, they can.

Hey Cyclones: It’s been over a decade since we beat the Hawks. Many of you were victims of some of those beatings. How does that make you feel? Overwhelmed? Used? Beaten? Worthless?

Good. That’s how Coach Fry wants you to feel. If you feel beaten, YOU WILL LOSE. No matter how hard you play, no matter how much of yourself you give for a win, if you let the legacy of losing get inside your head, YOU WILL LOSE.

Do you want to lose? Why shouldn’t you? It’s easier than trying to win. It’s what the “experts” expect. So, give up and be done with it. Move on to the next loss.

Or maybe you want to win. Well, if you want to win you have to forget about losing. You have to forget what has happened in the past. Forget about the experts; forget about being an underdog.

Go into the game Saturday as if it is the first day of our first season.They are no better than we are and they are on our turf. There are 50,000 fans out there screaming for YOU. They all want what you want — that is, to win.

They don’t want you to play a good game or lose a close one. They want you to kick the crap out of those black and gold bastards.

They want you to do it because the Hawks think they can come in here and tell us how it is. The Hawks think they can beat us up and then party in our town when it’s over.

They will if we let them.

Are we going to let them? Or are we going to take them down? Don’t tell me the answer, show me.

We’ll all know what you decided when the game is over.

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Malik Toms

Junior

Sociology and English literature