Thad Allender/Journal-World PhotoSmoking is only allowed in designated areas at Memorial Stadium and the visitor’s locker room isn’t one of those places.
But that didn’t deter one person associated with the Iowa State football program from lighting up a victory cigar.
A man wearing the same clothes other Cyclone sideline personnel wore Saturday, exited the locker room after the game with a lit, eight-inch long stogie and a smile almost as big.
But hey, give the guy a break. Rules don’t apply to you when your team has just beaten a hapless Kansas team 49-7 for its sixth win of the season to become bowl eligible.
It’s party-time.
Even ISU head coach Dan McCarney left the locker room with a saturated shirt. No doubt the result of a post-game Gatorade bath.
“I’d just as soon have that at some bowl site with a victory,” McCarney said about his soaked shirt. “But this is a real close football family and this was a real big game for all of us, a real big game. Believe me we needed this.”
That’s the truth. Iowa State had lost its last three games after starting the season 5-1 and was in dire need of that ever-important sixth victory, which likely will send the Cyclones to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La.
“That was a tough three-week span, losing to three really outstanding programs,” McCarney said. “I don’t know if we could have played a whole lot better today. There’s plenty of improvement and a few mistakes that were made. But overall, top to bottom, our offense, defense and special teams were outstanding today.”
After playing those three teams Colorado and Texas A&M are bowl-eligible, and Kansas State will be if it beats Missouri next week a team like Kansas was exactly what the Cyclones needed to give them a sixth win and regain confidence.
Also, next week’s game against in-state rival Iowa isn’t a sure thing like it has been the last three seasons.
The Hawkeyes are 6-4 and boast one of the Big Ten’s best running backs in Ladell Betts. That doesn’t bode well for Iowa State, which has the second-worst run defense in the Big 12 and has not beaten a Div. I-A team with a winning record this season. In the Cyclones’ six wins they have outscored the opposition 214-63, but have been trounced 154-65 in the four losses.
Still, Iowa State has beaten the teams it should have this season.
After going 13-42 in his first five years in Ames, Iowa, McCarney finished last year 9-3 and capped it with a 37-29 victory over Pittsburgh at the Insight.com Bowl.
And to prove that last year wasn’t a fluke, McCarney has put his team in position to go to another bowl game.
“We’ve sustained winning,” he said. “We’ve finished third in the Big 12 North two years in a row and a winning season again two years in a row. We have a winning record on the road again and we’re bowl-eligible again and we have the biggest game of the year next week.”
Thad Allender/Journal-World PhotoSmoking is only allowed in designated areas at Memorial Stadium and the visitor’s locker room isn’t one of those places.
But that didn’t deter one person associated with the Iowa State football program from lighting up a victory cigar.
A man wearing the same clothes other Cyclone sideline personnel wore Saturday, exited the locker room after the game with a lit, eight-inch long stogie and a smile almost as big.
But hey, give the guy a break. Rules don’t apply to you when your team has just beaten a hapless Kansas team 49-7 for its sixth win of the season to become bowl eligible.
It’s party-time.
Even ISU head coach Dan McCarney left the locker room with a saturated shirt. No doubt the result of a post-game Gatorade bath.
“I’d just as soon have that at some bowl site with a victory,” McCarney said about his soaked shirt. “But this is a real close football family and this was a real big game for all of us, a real big game. Believe me we needed this.”
That’s the truth. Iowa State had lost its last three games after starting the season 5-1 and was in dire need of that ever-important sixth victory, which likely will send the Cyclones to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La.
“That was a tough three-week span, losing to three really outstanding programs,” McCarney said. “I don’t know if we could have played a whole lot better today. There’s plenty of improvement and a few mistakes that were made. But overall, top to bottom, our offense, defense and special teams were outstanding today.”
After playing those three teams Colorado and Texas A&M are bowl-eligible, and Kansas State will be if it beats Missouri next week a team like Kansas was exactly what the Cyclones needed to give them a sixth win and regain confidence.
Also, next week’s game against in-state rival Iowa isn’t a sure thing like it has been the last three seasons.
The Hawkeyes are 6-4 and boast one of the Big Ten’s best running backs in Ladell Betts. That doesn’t bode well for Iowa State, which has the second-worst run defense in the Big 12 and has not beaten a Div. I-A team with a winning record this season. In the Cyclones’ six wins they have outscored the opposition 214-63, but have been trounced 154-65 in the four losses.
Still, Iowa State has beaten the teams it should have this season.
After going 13-42 in his first five years in Ames, Iowa, McCarney finished last year 9-3 and capped it with a 37-29 victory over Pittsburgh at the Insight.com Bowl.
And to prove that last year wasn’t a fluke, McCarney has put his team in position to go to another bowl game.
“We’ve sustained winning,” he said. “We’ve finished third in the Big 12 North two years in a row and a winning season again two years in a row. We have a winning record on the road again and we’re bowl-eligible again and we have the biggest game of the year next week.”
Thad Allender/Journal-World PhotoSmoking is only allowed in designated areas at Memorial Stadium and the visitor’s locker room isn’t one of those places.
But that didn’t deter one person associated with the Iowa State football program from lighting up a victory cigar.
A man wearing the same clothes other Cyclone sideline personnel wore Saturday, exited the locker room after the game with a lit, eight-inch long stogie and a smile almost as big.
But hey, give the guy a break. Rules don’t apply to you when your team has just beaten a hapless Kansas team 49-7 for its sixth win of the season to become bowl eligible.
It’s party-time.
Even ISU head coach Dan McCarney left the locker room with a saturated shirt. No doubt the result of a post-game Gatorade bath.
“I’d just as soon have that at some bowl site with a victory,” McCarney said about his soaked shirt. “But this is a real close football family and this was a real big game for all of us, a real big game. Believe me we needed this.”
That’s the truth. Iowa State had lost its last three games after starting the season 5-1 and was in dire need of that ever-important sixth victory, which likely will send the Cyclones to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La.
“That was a tough three-week span, losing to three really outstanding programs,” McCarney said. “I don’t know if we could have played a whole lot better today. There’s plenty of improvement and a few mistakes that were made. But overall, top to bottom, our offense, defense and special teams were outstanding today.”
After playing those three teams Colorado and Texas A&M are bowl-eligible, and Kansas State will be if it beats Missouri next week a team like Kansas was exactly what the Cyclones needed to give them a sixth win and regain confidence.
Also, next week’s game against in-state rival Iowa isn’t a sure thing like it has been the last three seasons.
The Hawkeyes are 6-4 and boast one of the Big Ten’s best running backs in Ladell Betts. That doesn’t bode well for Iowa State, which has the second-worst run defense in the Big 12 and has not beaten a Div. I-A team with a winning record this season. In the Cyclones’ six wins they have outscored the opposition 214-63, but have been trounced 154-65 in the four losses.
Still, Iowa State has beaten the teams it should have this season.
After going 13-42 in his first five years in Ames, Iowa, McCarney finished last year 9-3 and capped it with a 37-29 victory over Pittsburgh at the Insight.com Bowl.
And to prove that last year wasn’t a fluke, McCarney has put his team in position to go to another bowl game.
“We’ve sustained winning,” he said. “We’ve finished third in the Big 12 North two years in a row and a winning season again two years in a row. We have a winning record on the road again and we’re bowl-eligible again and we have the biggest game of the year next week.”
Thad Allender/Journal-World PhotoSmoking is only allowed in designated areas at Memorial Stadium and the visitor’s locker room isn’t one of those places.
But that didn’t deter one person associated with the Iowa State football program from lighting up a victory cigar.
A man wearing the same clothes other Cyclone sideline personnel wore Saturday, exited the locker room after the game with a lit, eight-inch long stogie and a smile almost as big.
But hey, give the guy a break. Rules don’t apply to you when your team has just beaten a hapless Kansas team 49-7 for its sixth win of the season to become bowl eligible.
It’s party-time.
Even ISU head coach Dan McCarney left the locker room with a saturated shirt. No doubt the result of a post-game Gatorade bath.
“I’d just as soon have that at some bowl site with a victory,” McCarney said about his soaked shirt. “But this is a real close football family and this was a real big game for all of us, a real big game. Believe me we needed this.”
That’s the truth. Iowa State had lost its last three games after starting the season 5-1 and was in dire need of that ever-important sixth victory, which likely will send the Cyclones to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La.
“That was a tough three-week span, losing to three really outstanding programs,” McCarney said. “I don’t know if we could have played a whole lot better today. There’s plenty of improvement and a few mistakes that were made. But overall, top to bottom, our offense, defense and special teams were outstanding today.”
After playing those three teams Colorado and Texas A&M are bowl-eligible, and Kansas State will be if it beats Missouri next week a team like Kansas was exactly what the Cyclones needed to give them a sixth win and regain confidence.
Also, next week’s game against in-state rival Iowa isn’t a sure thing like it has been the last three seasons.
The Hawkeyes are 6-4 and boast one of the Big Ten’s best running backs in Ladell Betts. That doesn’t bode well for Iowa State, which has the second-worst run defense in the Big 12 and has not beaten a Div. I-A team with a winning record this season. In the Cyclones’ six wins they have outscored the opposition 214-63, but have been trounced 154-65 in the four losses.
Still, Iowa State has beaten the teams it should have this season.
After going 13-42 in his first five years in Ames, Iowa, McCarney finished last year 9-3 and capped it with a 37-29 victory over Pittsburgh at the Insight.com Bowl.
And to prove that last year wasn’t a fluke, McCarney has put his team in position to go to another bowl game.
“We’ve sustained winning,” he said. “We’ve finished third in the Big 12 North two years in a row and a winning season again two years in a row. We have a winning record on the road again and we’re bowl-eligible again and we have the biggest game of the year next week.”
