Originally Posted by hoocher 
Lets see...
ISU won three games last yr....lost to Kent St.,Toledo, and Iowa. How can
ISU be on the upward climb if you won only 3 games this year and won 4 under Mac the previous year? Some of you posters really need to get a grip on where your program is.
We played very poorly in our first four games (Kent State, UNI, Iowa, & Toledo) because we had a completely new coaching staff, new formations, and new plays....and the result was a lot of mistakes (wrong routes, false starts, bad snaps, you name it). It was essentially like taking the field with 85 freshmen players. Hence we only won one of the four non-conference games....the easiest one.
We eliminated those mistakes and played much better toward the end of the season which is one reason to be optimistic about our upward trend.
The other reason to be optimistic is that our schedule changes and we don't play the top teams from the south -- Texas, Oklahoma, and Texas Tech -- this year.
