Hines: Iowa State football taking it back to 2000 with undefeated start

AMES – It started out as a pretty simple idea. Maybe a little hokey; perhaps even a little hacky, but, hey, you try writing 10 columns a week.

With 16th-ranked Iowa State football 4-0 for the first time since 2000, I thought it would be fun to ask Cyclone players, none of whom were alive to witness that historic start even from a stroller, what their impressions of the world at that time were.

I knew it would make my millennial heart ache in its advancing age, but this is journalism and we ask the hard questions around here.

I had no idea how badly it would go.

Because, rather than making fun of the baggy pants, boy bands and dial-up internet, they simply had no conception of the era.

“I can’t think of anything,” Rocco Becht, born 2003, said.

“I don’t really know,” J.R. Singleton, born 2002, said.

After those two, I stopped asking. It was just too painful.

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Rather than simply having to deal with the inexorable march toward middle age, I – along with you, dear reader over the age of 30 – was erased. This must be how Gen X feels all the time.

So consider this a history lesson.

We, briefly, thought civilization might be set back a couple centuries because of a computer glitch. ‘X-Men’ really set the stage for Marvel’s forthcoming dominance, and kept Hugh Jackman employed for 24 years and counting. Something about Chads hanging out in Florida was a big deal too, I think.

This was also around the era that Iowa State coach Matt Campbell was rocking a haircut for a yearbook photo that would still make the internet giggle a quarter-century later.

Oh, and the Cyclones won their first four games before going on to tie the program-best mark of nine wins and claim the program’s first-ever bowl victory. Ennis Haywood rushed for 1,200…

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Publish date : 2024-10-03 11:03:15

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