Why? It was a perfectly true thing to say and only sounds bad if you take it out of context and twist it. He was talking about how there's no way a team with ISU's recruits should beat a team with Texas's recruits by 24, but celebrating how they did anyway by working harder, etc. I was on the fire Rhoads bandwagon pretty early but there was nothing wrong with that statement.
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Why? It was a perfectly true thing to say and only sounds bad if you take it out of context and twist it. He was talking about how there's no way a team with ISU's recruits should beat a team with Texas's recruits by 24, but celebrating how they did anyway by working harder, etc. I was on the fire Rhoads bandwagon pretty early but there was nothing wrong with that statement.
Emotion should carry them into the 1st TV timeout, after that its execution. Let them watch us over and over again, I love the fact that they suck. I don't expect a win down there but I expect we should be loose playing them and they may be tight and prone to mistakes.
We play Texas immediately following their game with OU. Other Texas games before we play them are Notre Dame, @Cal & @Oklahoma State. By the time Campbell & Co roll into town Texas football is going to be in a state of anarchy.
hard to create a winning culture when coaches are at the podium acting shocked when we win. It was pathetic. CPR single-handed undermined any confidence that win gave us.
I don't think the players took it that way. Saying that you (a "have-not") don't have the individual stars that a "have" like Texas has but still fielding the better team should in no way undermine a team's confidence. Telling a team that they have become better than the sum of their parts should also in no way undermine a team's confidence - quite the opposite actually.
This is CF so take any comment and interpret it in the worst way possible at all times...
Btw OP, the way I remember Texas is UT instead of TU is the uterus in their longhorn emblem.:wacko:
CPR played a big part in our losing culture. Whining about schedules, referee conspiracy theories, side-line freak-outs, acting shocked when we won, etc. all played into it.
I have yet to see in that press conference where he acted shocked that ISU won. The problem is that so many people had decided that he needed to go that they interpreted everything he did in a negative way by that point. I am not upset that he had to go but I see no reason to vilify the man. He paid for his failures with his job. I think that is enough.
Yes, he got paid what he was due by contract. He is no longer coach at ISU and not a head coach anywhere - not even a coordinator - so he did pay for his failures with his job.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I love the fact that we're billboard material for Texas this year.
It's not really about whether Rhoads' statement after the win was true. It shouldn't have been said and sounded like a man desperate for his job. For me personally, that was the moment it turned, which after that win, should have been the exact opposite.
Reminds me of how disappointed some of them were that the refs gave Mack that win in Ames so they couldn't fire him on the plane ride home.
I respect your opinion. But, while the statement may be quite truthful, as the leader of your team, you DON'T say that in public, imho. You want to develop a winner's mentality?, then don't make comments that could take away from your team's success - or plant doubt in the minds of the players. History is replete with the Top Dog being taken down by the underdog (sometimes by HUGE margins) - so why would you use the word "NEVER?" That is what peeved me about the statement & it would peeve me if CMC were to ever claim that we should NEVER beat Texas by 24.
Intentionally misstating your opponent's moniker is the absolute lamest form of smack known to man.
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IMO, he did nothing to **** on the mentality of the team, in fact, its quite the opposite. He essentially says how hard it is to recruit against the giant that is Texas, meaning we undoubtedly have lesser talented players, and we still go toe to toe with them, because our program knows how to win (even though I disagree with that 100%).
