AMES – Bye weeks are usually the best moments for reflections, as the schedule lightens and the time for more comprehensive thought expands, but, as Iowa State football gets set to go to Jonesboro, Ark., this weekend, I keep thinking about a small press box in Athens, Ohio.

As someone who spent more than a few Friday nights in the press boxes of high schools whose names were simply acronyms with more letters than stop lights in the towns they represented, I’m more than accustomed to cozy confines above a football field.

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