{"id":2008,"date":"2012-07-11T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2012-07-11T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:19:16","slug":"were-not-good-but-were-still-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/were-not-good-but-were-still-her\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re not good, but we&#8217;re still here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week SBNation calculated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/2012\/7\/5\/3136074\/what-is-the-greatest-sporting-state-in-the-union-a-statistical\">&#8220;greatest&#8221; sports states<\/a> by historical winning records of the pro and major-college teams that played in those states. Iowa is the, um, least greatest \u2014 one-thousandth of a point behind Missouri and two-thousandths behind Illinois. (The 1990s Chicago Bulls were no match for the 19-everything-except-the-90s Northwestern.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Iowa, you have the Hawkeyes, who have been decent at football and basketball for a long time. But you also have Iowa St., which has been pretty bad for over a century (basketball is .495 over 105 years, football is .450 over 114 years). From what I&#8217;ve seen, it&#8217;s somewhat rare for such a not-good program in a major conference to have been around for so long.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re tenacious! Considering how close Iowa State has been to <em>not<\/em> being in a major conference during this decade, I&#8217;ll take the &#8220;rarity&#8221; designation.<\/p>\n<p>Historical note: The author did not included the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/teams\/WAT\/\">1949-50 Waterloo Hawks<\/a>. The 19-43 record wouldn&#8217;t have helped.<\/p>\n<h6>This is a timed post.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week SBNation calculated the &#8220;greatest&#8221; sports states by historical winning records of the pro and major-college teams that played in those states. Iowa is the, um, least greatest \u2014 one-thousandth of a point behind Missouri and two-thousandths behind Illinois. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/were-not-good-but-were-still-her\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","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=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}