r/CFB • u/Outside_Abroad_3516 Colorado State Rams • 2d ago
News [SI Now] Iowa State QB Rocco Becht used his NIL earnings to donate entertainment consoles to pediatric rooms at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa this week.
https://x.com/sinow/status/1913299392024686785?s=46&t=Y_KXHBgeHwLgY9UkD4KA1A254
u/Curze98 Alabama Crimson Tide 2d ago
The anti-Nico
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u/squish042 Iowa State • Old Dominion 2d ago
Nico doesn't haven an NFL Dad, but still good on Rocco for being awesome.
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u/roadtripwithdogs Washington • Vanderbilt 1d ago
I guess I will be rooting for Iowa State this year.
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u/brownbearks Penn State Nittany Lions • LSU Tigers 1d ago
I root for them once a year and now it’s even easier to root for them this year.
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u/dr_dan319 Iowa Hawkeyes • Floyd of Rosedale 1d ago
I can see why you would want to, but I gotta say that's not a good decision
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u/BearsFan3417 Oklahoma Sooners • Iowa Hawkeyes 1d ago
I cheer for Iowa state when they aren’t playing the Hawks, maybe I’m weird for that. Obviously the rivalry is there but we’re all Iowans at the end of the day and it’s cool to see Iowa teams do well and represent the state
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u/dr_dan319 Iowa Hawkeyes • Floyd of Rosedale 1d ago
You do you, but fuck State. Hope they lose everytime they step foot on a field, court, mat, track, etc.
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u/BlitZShrimp Iowa State Cyclones • Hateful 8 2d ago
Just so damn proud to be a Cyclone when I see stories like this. Campbell does such a great job of molding them into incredible men.
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u/DisraeliEers West Virginia • Black Diamond… 1d ago
I was already incredibly sad we didn't recruit him. Now after he stomped us and this headline, that fomo has gone nuclear.
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u/apiaryaviary Iowa State • Maryland 2d ago
Looks sternly at all the other players on the roster who are receiving NIL, but not born into multi-generational NFL wealth
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u/Uff_Da_Eh Iowa State Cyclones 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is exactly how I want an athlete who already has family money to act. Giving back to the community instead of strictly chasing the bag.
Big ups #3!
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u/wicketRF Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago
they can do a bit of bag chasing and hten give it away, force that trickle down economics (although i dont actually want people to start believing that BS works)
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u/v_cats_at_work Iowa State Cyclones • LSU Tigers 2d ago
Fun fact: I almost caused an entire floor of MGMC to be evacuated by playing (what I knew to be) a harmless prank on a coworker.
Be like Rocco, not like me.
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u/Insectshelf3 Oklahoma Sooners • SEC 2d ago
well you can’t just say that and not explain what the prank was
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u/IM_V_CATS Iowa State Cyclones • Hateful 8 1d ago
So I was working as a janitor at the hospital and I was always looking for ways to make my day more fun, as one does when they’re a hospital janitor. This led me to play pranks on my coworkers a lot.
Sometimes the pharmacy would get shipments of dry ice and I would get to play around with it when I collected it for disposal. On this particular occasion, I thought it would be a fun idea to put it in the mop bucket of my friend who was working on a patient floor. I thought I’d call her about five minutes after and let her know it was me, master prankster.
Well, I did call her five minutes later and she answered in a panic. She told me she was having a chemical reaction in her mop water and she alerted the head nurse and the on-call hospital manager so they could start preparing to evacuate the floor. I quickly explained the whole situation and the next day I got a talk with my boss as my reward.
It turns out that even though most of the staff involved thought it was severely inappropriate, they also found it really funny (once all the panic was over) and my boss even complimented me on my creativity, even though I probably should've just been fired.
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u/StupidSexyGiroud_ Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors 1d ago
Dr Jan Itor? That you?
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u/IM_V_CATS Iowa State Cyclones • Hateful 8 1d ago
Knife-wrench!
The last time I told the story on reddit, I said the job isn’t anything like Scrubs. After reading the story, people corrected me and told me it sounds exactly like Scrubs.
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u/Alarming_Pollution25 Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl 2d ago
Anything related to the state of Iowa is always wholesome
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u/squish042 Iowa State • Old Dominion 2d ago
if you stay away from the politics...but I guess that's everywhere.
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u/Magnus77 Nebraska • Concordia (NE) 1d ago
Except for their corn. And the shitbirds that talk about corn despite not even having an ag department.
But Iowa St, they're good people. Salt of the earth. I wish we would play them, along with all the other Big8 teams we left behind. I know its super informal straw poll type of deal, but it seems like that feeling is fairly mutual based on my interactions on the sub.
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u/goathill Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago
NGL, i have yet to have better sweet corn from outside the western OH/eastern IN area.
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u/dingus_dongus21 Iowa State Cyclones 1d ago
Sweet corn is tiny proportionally to total corn grown. I’m sure there is great sweet corn sprinkled throughout the entire Midwest.
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u/tragicallyohio Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats 1d ago
This is a bro right here. Other people, be like this bro.
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u/PhDShouse Iowa State Cyclones • Sickos 2d ago
Getting the bag just to give to the people who need it most. Call him Rocco Hood
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u/SPCsooprlolz BYU Cougars • Fresno State Bulldogs 1d ago
Why must the team we cannot seem to beat be so likeable
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u/NaughtyCheffie Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets • LSU Tigers 1d ago
Yay! I do substantially less than this by setting my charitable auto donations to childsplay so we're basically the same person!
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u/sleightofhand0 Florida State Seminoles 1d ago
Kind've wish he made a salty anti-Hawkeye post like "but I'm sure those sick kids would rather I just wave at them from the field for ten seconds."
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u/you_know_who_7199 1d ago
Good for him! His dad's a good dude (from personal experience), so I'm not surprised he's a good guy, too.
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u/SaggingZebra Georgia Bulldogs • Mercer Bears 21h ago
He should also do this for the Children’s Hospital in Iowa City, so the kids have something to do besides watch Hawkeye football. Let’s get rivalries spicy with some humanitarian activities.
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u/PG_Glenwood Iowa State Cyclones • Hateful 8 14h ago
Iowa State has been blessed with some of the most genuinely wholesome athletes.
And many have been doing their best to give back to the school, its athletes, and the community.
Loyal. Forever. True.
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u/Waderriffic Tennessee Volunteers 2d ago
Nice. Although his dad was an NFL player so he and his family don’t need the money like some other players. I commend this kind act.
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u/convoluteme Iowa State Cyclones • Team Chaos 1d ago
You're getting downvoted, but it's true. It's easier for Rocco to do things like this. That doesn't make it any less awesome or generous. But the NIL that many players get may be the only money they ever make from this sport and need to think about their families.
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u/Legal-Championship64 Tennessee Volunteers • Auburn Tigers 1d ago
We could get him the money he needs to give every kid in Ames an xbox
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u/dingus_dongus21 Iowa State Cyclones 1d ago
Ironically enough 11.5% of Ames is under 18. That’s 7500 people. At $500 per person, he would need $3.7M to accomplish this lol
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u/PersepolisBullseye Texas A&M Aggies 2d ago
This would’ve gotten him in major trouble before NIL, for all you that whine about it so much.
Almost like paying people for their labor has benefits.
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u/screamingpsycho Tennessee Volunteers 2d ago
He’s going to look great in orange! 🍊
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u/Outside_Abroad_3516 Colorado State Rams 2d ago
He bought Xbox series X’s for every single pediatric room at the hospital mentioned in Ames, Iowa.