{"id":496,"date":"2011-09-21T16:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T21:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2011-09-21T16:46:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T21:46:56","slug":"rick-perry-iowa-state-and-2012-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/rick-perry-iowa-state-and-2012-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry, Iowa State, and 2012, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2011\/09\/can-rick-perry-save-the-big-12-and-should-he\/245475\/\">the Atlantic<\/a>, but possibly written before Tuesday night&#8217;s events:<\/p>\n<p><em>Saving the Big 12 would help him in Iowa. Among the biggest losers of  Big 12 disintegration would be Iowa State. The Cyclones haven&#8217;t been  very good at football since the 1990s rushing heydays of Troy and Darren  Davis.* They appeal to no major TV markets. If the Big 12 folds, Iowa  State will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20110920\/SPORTS020602\/110920034\/?odyssey=nav%7Chead\">probably end up in the Mountain West<\/a> &#8212; a step down that will only lead to suffering and mockery at the hands of Iowa Hawkeyes fans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If Perry tries to keep the Big 12 together, he will win the gratitude of  every Iowa State fan on the planet. It&#8217;ll make for great stump  material. Nobody will care about Social Security anymore.    But as far as a political windfall goes, that&#8217;s about it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the whole thing, although with the current state of things Perry might just have avoided the situation entirely.<\/p>\n<p>*Actually, we weren&#8217;t very good at it then, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Atlantic, but possibly written before Tuesday night&#8217;s events: Saving the Big 12 would help him in Iowa. Among the biggest losers of Big 12 disintegration would be Iowa State. The Cyclones haven&#8217;t been very good at football since &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/rick-perry-iowa-state-and-2012-part-2\/\">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-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}