Originally Posted by AirWalke;150692
I do wonder where the optimism has gone, and I think it's because Gene Chizik and Iowa State have been beat up by the media, telling us that[B it'll be hard to replicate what D-Mac did here[/b], that we'd be lucky to get to 4-5 wins, etc. What happened to before Chizik was hired, when he was considered a viable replacement at 'Bama, where, had he been hired, expectations would have gone through the roof for him?
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Just caught this little tidbit.
WOW, just WOW.
Yes Dan courted the media fanatically, and has many friends there, but to say that it would be difficult to acheive the results he did here is selling this university, and their fans, short.
Look at what was left, not a hell of a playmakers, and predictions of doom and gloom are not difficult to understand.
However, the biggest thing is that all that has been said over the years, by previous coach's is how tough it is to recruit to Ames, IA. No doubt that is true, but I think that we will see the power of not accepting losing, and failure. It may take a bit, but it will happen.
