***OFFICIAL: KSU @ ISU GAME(DAY) THREAD***

[cougarcy]

Would love to get away from the stupid zone read and get to a more pass oriented spread attack....sam richardson please

[price26]

Can't begin to count the # of throws Barnett had time to make and his receiver had absolutely no chance to catch. Johnson was wide open on the 3rd and four. Young wide open on the first down of the last series.

[Cyclonepride]

Toe to toe with #6. Just need some kind of offensive spark. Two chances in the last few minutes, so you can't hold anything against the defense. Klein is just damn good.

[Cincyclone]

Yeah, but mostly at QB... 16-37 cannot be acceptable for QB production... JB doesn't throw as many picks, cuz he's too busy spiking every pass into the ground 3 yards in front of him...

Part of that was the inability to keep them honest with the running game.

[price26]

Yeah, but mostly at QB... 16-37 cannot be acceptable for QB production... JB doesn't throw as many picks, cuz he's too busy spiking every pass into the ground 3 yards in front of him...

Hard to throw an INT when not even the defense can catch it.

[SpokaneCY]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WE LOST TO THE #6 TEAM IN THE COUNTRY AND HAD 2 CHANCES TO DRIVE DOWN THE FIELD AND WIN.

DO ANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE USED TO GET BEAT 40+ to 3 EVERY WEEK???

STOP BEING SUCH A BUNCH OF LOSERS AND BE HAPPY THAT THE PROGRAM IS GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION!!!

OUR GUYS PLAYED A TOUGH GAME AND LOST. IT HAPPENS!

Sorry pal... We're a good enough team in the 4th year of a consistent program to make the EASY plays. The effing EASY plays.

[Cyclophile1]

I would have to say WR is right there with QB as weakest position groups. We simply don't have the offensive skill players right now in the passing game to take it to the next level.

This is it. We don't have WRs and QB who would play for basically any other Big12 team. Passing game suffers. We have to make do. We won't beat the top 3-4 teams in the conference without an upgrade.

[MIClone]

The game went as expected- until JB did not connect with Sh. J on 2nd to last series. We complete that, and...damn.

Losing to Kansas St has to stop.

Totally. We hit that and BAM. SJ needed to keep moving so JB could hit him.

[simply1]

We've been close for a while, we're now hoping to be more than close and to get over the hump. It doesn't mean we didn't see some very good things on the field, it means we believe and we want more along with the team. Moral victories mean **** in reality, nobody says "remember when we lost by 6 to #5 Kansas State?". They say, remember when we knocked OSU out of the BCS, etc.

[oldwiseman]

Sorry, but that's not us. Iowa State is no longer a "we did our best" kind of team. We need to be the ones bagging the prom queen. I could not disagree with your post more.

If you expect to beat a top 10 team every week then you are going to be just as disappointed with the fact that you never bagged the prom queen.

This team has made huge progress and you have to be able to accept that we can't win them all. I think the highest ranked team we ever beat until last year was #7 Nebraska. I could be wrong, but that seems correct.

[CtownCyclone]

If you expect to beat a top 10 team every week then you are going to be just as disappointed with the fact that you never bagged the prom queen.

This team has made huge progress and you have to be able to accept that we can't win them all. I think the highest ranked team we ever beat until last year was #7 Nebraska. I could be wrong, but that seems correct.

If you can't see that we are very similar to KSU and that we could have won the game had we simply made the easy plays, I don't know what to tell you.

[ISU42]

Totally. We hit that and BAM. SJ needed to keep moving so JB could hit him.

Are you saying that was Shontrelle's fault on JB's massive overthrow?

[simply1]

If you expect to beat a top 10 team every week then you are going to be just as disappointed with the fact that you never bagged the prom queen.

This team has made huge progress and you have to be able to accept that we can't win them all. I think the highest ranked team we ever beat until last year was #7 Nebraska. I could be wrong, but that seems correct.

Why wouldn't we "expect" to beat a top 10 team when we had the ball at our own 40, down by 6, with 2:43 left? wtf were you expecting exactly at that point?

[KFitzy87]

I can't wait for the days of Richardson and Rohach

[swarthmoreCY]

Totally. We hit that and BAM. SJ needed to keep moving so JB could hit him.

It seemed like SJ only stopped after the pass sailed over his head.

If we had KSU's klein, we would be the team ranked in the top-10.