How long do you think the Big 12 had been planning to unleash this devastating and diabolical plan on Iowa State? From what I hear, this was years in the making, just waiting for the key moment, when the whole nation was watching, to ruin ISU football. The "playbook" for Operation Codename: Tiger Shark was 513 pages long (not counting the 26 diagrams and 12 full color glossies). Iowa State know something was afoot when the Big 12 tried to add an 8th official (the eight letter of the alphabet is H [Hawkeyes!]), and tried to block it, but thankfully they were unsuccessful and Operation Codename: Tiger Shark could go into Omega Phase and became essentially unstoppable.