*** Official Iowa vs IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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Noel shouldn’t be playing but I’m guessing that is our best…
I actually feel okay after that loss. The team is insanely young and I like they never gave up. I think our team is better than last years team
I’ve had questions for a few years but Campbell lost me today. No faith that he can turn things around. To be honest, it doesn’t seem like he’s terribly motivated to do so.
Still a completely vanilla, unmotivated, loss.
Is hard to out-conservative the master, we may never win in this series again. But they balled out, I’m very concerned about our linebacker play. Zero presence in the middle and in the stats, hopefully Vaughn gets healthy soon, whatever is wrong with him
I think what some here are not understanding is…when that happens so many times - game after game - year after year - ya know what that means? It means that’s who you are. It means that’s what this staff is.
Iowa State is a consistently undisciplined team, year after year. And while the defense has shown to be solid (with the ability to execute relatively consistently year over year) the overall program far dwarfs it’s effectiveness due to the program’s core identifiable characteristic - losing in the margins.
I feel like beating your rival more than one time out of eight is not an unrealistic expectation but I guess treating the coach that has only had two winning seasons as any more than a saint is frowned upon here
Better talent onli takes you so far when your entire philosophy is “score as little as possible and hope the other team still scores less”
Campbell has been able to get the best players here talent-wise of any coach since the 70's. Far as coaching/development, special Teams & offense has far lagged the defense. Players on the defensive side have tended to improve much more over the arc of their collegiate career. Offense - not nearly as much. Maybe the talent there was high when Purdy was at the helm & having DM then BH, but Hell we had more ingenuity when we had a guy who went on to become a linebacker behind the center. Those guys were so talented they just masked how poor our schemes are.
Efforts to improve special teams looks to have gathered some momentum, outside of finding the best returner. But that took far too long to address, imo
But this offense? What is our identity? Clanton was an excellent hire, but again it was way too tardy. But maybe we wouldn't have secured him had we hired someone else a couple years ago. We didn't run well today, but Becht had time for the most part. Wonder if he's good throwing on the run - get some designed roll outs. Spread the field or shift it that way.
We have a good deal of talent, a majority of which is young, but many other teams do too, & they are able to coach them up better more quickly. This is the most frustrating part.
Efforts to improve special teams looks to have gathered some momentum, outside of finding the best returner. But that took far too long to address, imo
But this offense? What is our identity? Clanton was an excellent hire, but again it was way too tardy. But maybe we wouldn't have secured him had we hired someone else a couple years ago. We didn't run well today, but Becht had time for the most part. Wonder if he's good throwing on the run - get some designed roll outs. Spread the field or shift it that way.
We have a good deal of talent, a majority of which is young, but many other teams do too, & they are able to coach them up better more quickly. This is the most frustrating part.
I mean besides not being able to catch and scared of getting hit they are fine.
That's now our 12th one-score loss since the 2021 season. We are behind only Nebraska's 14 losses.
Can't really blame ST for this loss. But I do think you can blame poor clock management. We've seen that before too.
How often do you see other teams score in their 2 minute offense? It happens all the time, but I'm not sure we've seen it under Campbell. Last year's Dekkers' drive was a thing of beauty but he had 8 minutes to get it done.
Can't really blame ST for this loss. But I do think you can blame poor clock management. We've seen that before too.
How often do you see other teams score in their 2 minute offense? It happens all the time, but I'm not sure we've seen it under Campbell. Last year's Dekkers' drive was a thing of beauty but he had 8 minutes to get it done.
Last year's amazing historical CYTV classics level 99 yard drive to seal it had at least one DPI to get a first down.
Then the rest of the season happened.
They win the b1g west by 1 game, get smoked in the title game, get smoked by a decent bowl opponent, and their fans will trumpet how they are one of the top programs in the country.
Hopefully they will at least muster 25 points per game so they keep their equalizer employed .
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