{"id":14162,"date":"2022-06-24T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14162"},"modified":"2022-06-22T22:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T03:12:52","slug":"continued-peasantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/continued-peasantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Continued peasantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Mandel, in the Athletic, did his every-five-years <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3361576\/2022\/06\/14\/alabama-georgia-emperors-kings-barons\/\">ranking of the college football hierarchy<\/a>. The landed gentry in Iowa City got even more landed, moving up to Baron. Ames? Well, there&#8217;s some lovely filth down here in peasantdom.<\/p>\n<p><em>If I had to guess, the fan base I\u2019m going to hear the most complaints from is Iowa State. Which, again: Beware recency bias. The past five years represent the best run in program history, but I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s completely erased a century of futility from the public consciousness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s absolutely right. DO NOT GIVE IOWA STATE EXPECTATIONS. Iowa State with expectations is a recipe for disaster. 2021&#8217;s 7-6 with a Florida bowl is, all things considered, at least a top 20% all-time season for ISU. But too many people were anticipating the first 10-win season in Cyclones history, which, have you <em>seen<\/em> Iowa State football?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/i-was-wrong\/\">Recent circumstances notwithstanding<\/a>, of course, as Mandel also said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Mandel, in the Athletic, did his every-five-years ranking of the college football hierarchy. The landed gentry in Iowa City got even more landed, moving up to Baron. Ames? Well, there&#8217;s some lovely filth down here in peasantdom. If I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/continued-peasantry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14163,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14162\/revisions\/14163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}