Paul Rhoads true colors beginning to shine through

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Originally Posted by NEICyFan

Fans are starting to realize what some of us have known for awhile: Good guy. Good man. Average coach. His record speaks for itself.

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I agree, but I don't think we can do better. And actually I don't want Rhoads to go. He is still a perfect fit here. I LOVE his emotion, his passion, and his leadership. BUT.... he's not much of an X's and O's type guy. He's a great figure head, and that's it.

So keep Rhoads as the face of the program. Let him be head coach, recruit like crazy, and be the CEO of the program. But then, give him the money he needs to go out and get a complete stud OC. This entire offense needs revamped completely IMO. It's just painful to even watch.

Get awesome coordinators to coach, and let Rhoads be the just the "manager" of the team IMO.

Everyone who thinks that this loss was due to a single player, or penalty, or a justified *** chewing, or doesn't believe that this program can't get to the "next level" deserves the mediocre program that they whine about having.

This team was very close to beating a bcs bowl team and as well as an 8-4 season inspite of having a poor offense and statistically average defense. The right man is in charge. If you don't think so then you can frankly STFU because you are wasting oxygen lamenting the same old **** that gets repeated constantly by the cry baby pathetic fans.

We got beat by a motivated team that wanted it more and executed better. Get over it. Time to put on your big boy pants and move on to next season. I'm actually looking forward to that next game at Tulsa. Boys!...Avenge me...AVENGE ME!

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Originally Posted by clonedude

I agree, but I don't think we can do better. And actually I don't want Rhoads to go. He is still a perfect fit here. I LOVE his emotion, his passion, and his leadership. BUT.... he's not much of an X's and O's type guy. He's a great figure head, and that's it.

So keep Rhoads as the face of the program. Let him be head coach, recruit like crazy, and be the CEO of the program. But then, give him the money he needs to go out and get a complete stud OC. This entire offense needs revamped completely IMO. It's just painful to even watch.

Get awesome coordinators to coach, and let Rhoads be the just the "manager" of the team IMO.

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I don't agree with your ideas/opinions very often but we do need to get an experienced OC even if only for a couple years to implement a better scheme. But we did have Herman who btw just coached an undefeated team. And we tried the CEO route with Chiz that didn't work out well either. Problem may be Wally won't be around for too much longer so this offense needs to click soon.

"Paul made a terrible decision to accept the holding penalty when we made a stop on 3rd down that would have made it 4th and 2. Then Laing gets a dumb personal foul and Rhoads chews him out. Probably doesn't happen if the coach doesn't make a terrible decision."

This part makes no sense CYcoFan. Tulsa probably would have gone for it and we never show that we could stop a 4th and 2. A coach doesn't plan on his players (much less a senior) making a irrelevant personal foul in a situation like that.

That foul changed the rest of the game. It probably would have been a 7 point game, not a 2 score game. We were playing like crap, but that changes the offensive play calling for the rest of the 4th quarter.

lets get back to the 0-11 seasons were all use to. At least then we didn't care!

He is 3 out of 4 years bowling with one season very close. This is amazing for an ISU coach. #endofthread

We'll see about this next year...two back to back bowl flops + average wins during regular season + increased prices for tickets and parking + an economy going South = loss in attendance.

We want to be big time but we are very, very average. We just got mopped by a school that is 5 times smaller than us and in a non BCS Conference. Should have taken advantage of the support when you had it! Looking at the schedule for next year, I see us getting no more than 3 wins.

I would like to re-state this. I do not EVER want to see anymore rah-rah, "I am so proud..." stuff again until we win a bowl. CPR has a lifetime contract as far as I am concerned. He may be like MacCarney in many ways, but I do think he would be loyal to ISU where Mac would have took the next available Big Ten gig had he been able to pull it off.
I of course would not expect this to be announced, but no more victory, water-throwing celebrations until we finish a season....hopefully that focus and drive may lead to some mental clarity that our offense is wrong for Iowa State. We are as of right now looking at a two-year famine there if we change schemes now so we must keep big picture in mind.

CPR needs to come on this board and read some of these messages so he can learn how to coach. The last four years he's obviously shown he has no clue how to build a program. And Richardson, he is just awful. It's not like he's a freshman or something.

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Originally Posted by atlantacyclone

He is 3 out of 4 years bowling with one season very close. This is amazing for an ISU coach. #endofthread

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He is also 3 out of 4 years with a losing record. This is not acceptable for an ISU coach who wants to improve the program.

We need accountability. I am sure CPR understands this. Time will tell if he pinpoints the same areas to focus upon that the fans do.

Anybody that can't see that as a whole we are playing differently defensively and are making a ton of progress doesn't know what they are looking for and can't read a scoreboard. ISU is more physical, more prepared, more everything than previously. It is night and day versus when PR took over. Offensively clearly there are problems, which I suspect are disapoinintg to PR and they are infuriating to me. PR said himself in the post game, they just didn't move the sticks enough this year. He knows the offense is an issue. Part of the problem is the schedule and guys just getting worn down and we still aren't deep enough to compensate for that. Clearly some guys got hurt that we really missed in the WV game.

It takes many years to build a program and slowly he is getting it there. Defensively I have no real worries as long as PR is here. Offensively clearly something needs to be done. I just hope he can get the ball rolling in the right direction offensively before whatever this problem is becomes too big to be able to fix.

So were basing his "true colors" on roughly 5% of his games? This place is as bad as hn right now

OMG are we discussing firing Rhoads? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The game was obviously not what was expected but I think emotion may be playing a part in some of the posts. If I'm not mistaken CPR was a defensive guy before he was hired to be head coach. That may explain why he hired older, established OC so far in his tenure. I think recruiting has gotten better every year and when he thinks he has the right players in the program he might hire a younger more explosive guy for the offense. When he took over he had a team that was in sad shape and he needed to establish a base which I think he's done. This is not the program it was 5 years ago. With higher accomplishments come higher expectations and a higher level of frustration when things don't go as planned. Going to a bowl game, no matter which one, 3 out of 4 years and only one game away from 4 out of 4 years is quite an accomplishment for a program with the history of ISU. If I remember correctly ISU has only been to roughly 12 bowl games in its history. Paul Rhoads has a fourth of that. I obviously don't know the program as well as many if not all that are on here but when I call the ISU football team a program it is a compliment. It is something that I would not have called it in the past. The loss hurts but you are going in the right direction and I think continued success will be had. Good luck in 2013.

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Originally Posted by atlantacyclone

He is 3 out of 4 years bowling with one season very close. This is amazing for an ISU coach. #endofthread

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Is it really that impressive when there are 35 bowl games? 70 out of 120 teams make bowl games.