{"id":544,"date":"2011-10-03T15:15:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T20:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2011-10-11T20:41:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T01:41:33","slug":"post-texas-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/post-texas-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Texas reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/colleges\/blowout-loss-to-texas-shows-iowa-state-well-short-of-top-25\/2011\/10\/02\/gIQA4vxCEL_story.html\">Texas was Texas again, and Iowa State&#8230;was Iowa State.<\/a> There hasn&#8217;t been a dumpster fire like that in Ames since the 2004 Veishea riot.<\/p>\n<p>For a little light in the tunnel, Holly Anderson at SI <a href=\"http:\/\/college-football.si.com\/2011\/10\/02\/evening-snaps-a-challenger-faceplants\/\">said the game was<\/a> &#8220;the Longhorns\u2019 first complete win over a quality opponent in 2011.&#8221; So there&#8217;s that, <em>contra<\/em> ESPN Big 12 blogger David Ubben, who says Texas is undefeated &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/big12\/post\/_\/id\/35008\/sooners-finish-off-the-cardinals\">without playing any serious competition<\/a> in the season&#8217;s first month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Big 12 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2011\/10\/03\/3183446\/big-12-proposes-equal-revenue.html\">agreed in principle<\/a> to revenue sharing of first- and second-tier rights, but only when everyone agrees to stay, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/sports\/college\/mizzou\/tiger-tracker\/article_c07b7e78-edd4-11e0-a753-0019bb30f31a.html\">Missouri is still flirting with the SEC<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/sportsextra\/article.aspx?subjectid=595&amp;articleid=20111002_92_B1_Equalr807124\">Tulsa World looked<\/a> at revenue-sharing&#8217;s effects in other conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas was Texas again, and Iowa State&#8230;was Iowa State. There hasn&#8217;t been a dumpster fire like that in Ames since the 2004 Veishea riot. For a little light in the tunnel, Holly Anderson at SI said the game was &#8220;the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/post-texas-reflection\/\">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-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}