{"id":3453,"date":"2013-06-02T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2013-06-02T12:01:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T17:01:13","slug":"were-not-interested-in-iowa-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/were-not-interested-in-iowa-state\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;re not interested in Iowa State&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not necessarily news, but interesting nonetheless. This selection from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/college-football.si.com\/2013\/05\/31\/ohio-state-gordon-gee-controversial-comments\/\">Gordon Gee&#8217;s comments come around the 11:38 mark<\/a>, right after he says there&#8217;s no way the Big Ten would take Cincinnati or Pitt. (SI&#8217;s Andy Staples has excerpts right before and after. When you read this, Gee calls it Missou-<em>ruh<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the problems we face is that Iowa has tremendous pressure about Iowa State. We&#8217;re not interested in Iowa State. We are interested in Missouri and Kansas eventually, I think. \u2026 I would see potentially Missouri and Kansas. By the way it goes without saying this all has to be speculation that remains right here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Hlas <a href=\"http:\/\/thegazette.com\/2013\/05\/31\/gordon-gee-comments-test-b1gs-collegiality\/\">has some more observations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa State didn&#8217;t need another reason to be disgusted with Ohio State, or the Big Ten in general, but there you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not necessarily news, but interesting nonetheless. This selection from\u00a0Gordon Gee&#8217;s comments come around the 11:38 mark, right after he says there&#8217;s no way the Big Ten would take Cincinnati or Pitt. (SI&#8217;s Andy Staples has excerpts right before and after. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/were-not-interested-in-iowa-state\/\">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-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","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=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}