Something to get you ready for football season

…or a new basketball season. Or pretty much anything KU-related to get your mind off this.

Not long after the Panthers dispatched the Jayhawks, UNI administrators reached out to their fellow Cinderella peers to see how to best gauge the impact of the victory. They contacted Appalachian State (upset winners against Michigan football in 2007), George Mason (Final Four stunners in 2006) and Gonzaga (the original mid-major darling with its Elite Eight appearance in 1999), asking what sort of details they should see and from where.

What they came up with is a 21-page research packet on how Ali Farokhmanesh changed Northern Iowa’s world.

Well, I’m glad at least someone came out of that happy.

Oh wait… no I’m not.