Chizik: no academic casualties

**clones26** · 07-24-2007, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by ArathornClone

I thought maybe you were one of the "our backup QB is our best QB" crowd.

I am thinking that could be the case. Arnaud looks real good, cannon for an arm and was looking more on target than Bret early this year. Bret will get the chance to show he is improved, but if we stumble at the beginning of the year after the UNI game, it could be 5 or 6 straight loses and then we could see AA. Just my personal thoughts, not doubting Bret as we saw what he can do 2 years ago

**timdcy** · 07-24-2007, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by clones26

I am thinking that could be the case. Arnaud looks real good, cannon for an arm and was looking more on target than Bret early this year. Bret will get the chance to show he is improved, but if we stumble at the beginning of the year after the UNI game, it could be 5 or 6 straight loses and then we could see AA. Just my personal thoughts, not doubting Bret as we saw what he can do 2 years ago

Someone said something about coach Chizik lighting a fire under Meyer's butt... I hope he is reading some of the stuff you guys are saying about him. I think (and desperately hope) that Meyer won't be our problem this year, and that there will be no need to put Arnaud into the game regardless of what Chizik said in his CN interview.

**Wesley** · 07-24-2007, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by joepublic

Gene said this at Big 12 media day.

Front page of dmr website.

Also from his interview: He said that sacks are not always the line's fault and that Brett needs to throw quicker and throw on the run some.

That may be a shot across Meyer's bow.

Other than that, it was your basic boring coach speak.

Really? The games I saw he did not have much time to do anything but get tackled.
Every game I saw, we always had third and eleven, the other team rushed hard to force him to the outside, he then threw to Blythe who was shoved out of bounds for an incomplete pass. Seriously, Bret was predictable that he would run right when flushed out and I saw him force a few butterfly tosses that were intercepted. Our left tackle better be better.

I saw Bret throw fairly well on the run. I saw him throw a couple of interceptions on the run. He can thow well on the run. Yet the passing routes sucked last year. He usually had only one person in the area when he rolled right. He needs to fake more to run right and then spin faster to the left than he could last year. Plus he is tackled fairly easily,when a hand is put on him. He will be better runner this year.

**darts180** · 07-24-2007, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by cyclone#1

Huh? You can't really believe this can you?

The fact is that if a play breaks down it is everyone's responsibility to keep us from a negative play...the QB, the OLine, the Backs, the Receivers.

And in today's game, many of the successful passing teams have a lot of designed plays with moving pockets to give the QB more time.

Well obviously everyone is responsible.

But you can't blame old Trav, the guy is dogged in his determination to figure out how none of what has been wrong with the football team was never Dan's fault. I admire that, I really do.

But who knows, maybe someday, if Gene is what I believe that he is, Trav may be able to judge Mac as objectively as he judges the rest of the coaches, past and present. Granted, it is a long shot, and Gene has to perform (of course then we will all hear how Dan made it all possible, which is as big of an insult to the job Jamie Pollard has done as any Hawk fan can throw at him about single game tickets), but I can dream can't I. Damn Wayne Morgan anyways.

**ISUclones33** · 07-25-2007, 03:12 AM

its Bret!!!!! one T

**wesley_w** · 07-25-2007, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by kgreeny

BTW was that a really bad, or just me. My fav. is "Reporters asked Chizik how quickly he can turn the Cyclones around, his conversations with former Iowa State coach Dan McCarney and what his son thought about a newly minted Gene Chizik coin."
And then not even share how Chizik answered the Q's. We don't care what the question was, just want to know what Chizik had to say.

When Gene was introduced at Hilton he mentioned that he didn't know Dan but he was going to call him. Since then, I've always been curious if the two ever had a chance to meet since I assume Mac was living in his Florida home at the time and then soon after got his current job. I think both of them are good men and each would like and respect the other.

**ISUFan22** · 07-25-2007, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by wesley_w

When Gene was introduced at Hilton he mentioned that he didn't know Dan but he was going to call him. Since then, I've always been curious if the two ever had a chance to meet since I assume Mac was living in his Florida home at the time and then soon after got his current job. I think both of them are good men and each would like and respect the other.

Well...here's your answer...kinda...

Chizik, McCarney have 'great conversation'

Within weeks of becoming Iowa State's football coach, Gene Chizik called his predecessor.

Chizik replaced Dan McCarney, who guided the Cyclones from 1995-06 before resigning under pressure.

"I wanted to just tell him how much I appreciated where he's taken the program, from where it was 12 years ago," Chizik said. "We never got into the goods, the bads or uglies."

McCarney has more victories (56) and more bowl appearances (five) than any other coach in Iowa State history. Chizik took over a program that finished 4-8 overall and 1-7 in the Big 12 Conference last season.

"Short conversation, but (McCarney) was very respectful and very happy for me," Chizik said. "It was a great conversation, and I'm glad I made the call."