Liberty Bowl postgame thread
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It’s a meaningless bowl game. Not really concerned about it
Lots of players emerging. This will be a deep team.
Guess you better give up your season tickets. I’ll be there.
Well he won he gets to. Put up or shut up. Dropping 19 in the 1st qtr doesn't leave you much room to talk.
I believe their record over the last 10 games vs top 10 opponents is 4-6. That’s very good
Why does winning any game matter? Why did winning the KSU game matter?
Winning these games or at least not putting on a terrible, boring performance is important to me because quite frankly I’m not going to another Iowa State bowl in a while. We consistently look unprepared and it’s been a bad experience.
We look awful in any game that’s not against a Big 12 opponent under Campbell.
1. Games like this make me want to just find a new way to spend my time.
2. Why does CMC seem to not have the team.ready for noncon games? Do they take a different approach to prep? Because ISU has been significantly worse in noncon games compared to conference games.
3. Rocco balled out with no help except for Higgins really. Imagine that game with below average QB play! It would have been 45 to 10.
4. The o-line should have to walk back to Ames. They reverted back to 2022 and Ohio game levels of incompetence. More whiffed blocks than well blocked plays. Were they hungover??
5. Defense has way too many young guys playing, but i am not at all confident in most of them taking the next step. Talent deficit. Scheme and discipine is all they got.
6. Defense gave up for a while yesterday mid game, effort was poor. Never seen that before. Even the veterans looked frustrated and unmotivated.
7. I think the staff may have gone all-in on Sama too early. Having one good game and then one great game in snowy conditions isnt exactly a guaranteed Troy Davis. Line was Zero yesterday but Sama didnt play well at all, he looked like he was trying to break one every time and that was the wrong thing to do. He may still be Breece 2.0 but he sure isnt 100% ready yet.
8. CMC record as a favorite might be below .500?
9. ISU looked like a team full of themselves, thought theyd just show up and collect their trophy. Memphis played like this was their conference championship game. Memphis looked prepared and motivated. ISU looked like neither.
10. No idea why they brought back the "bring everyone into the phone booth" run scheme. Nightmare.
2. Why does CMC seem to not have the team.ready for noncon games? Do they take a different approach to prep? Because ISU has been significantly worse in noncon games compared to conference games.
3. Rocco balled out with no help except for Higgins really. Imagine that game with below average QB play! It would have been 45 to 10.
4. The o-line should have to walk back to Ames. They reverted back to 2022 and Ohio game levels of incompetence. More whiffed blocks than well blocked plays. Were they hungover??
5. Defense has way too many young guys playing, but i am not at all confident in most of them taking the next step. Talent deficit. Scheme and discipine is all they got.
6. Defense gave up for a while yesterday mid game, effort was poor. Never seen that before. Even the veterans looked frustrated and unmotivated.
7. I think the staff may have gone all-in on Sama too early. Having one good game and then one great game in snowy conditions isnt exactly a guaranteed Troy Davis. Line was Zero yesterday but Sama didnt play well at all, he looked like he was trying to break one every time and that was the wrong thing to do. He may still be Breece 2.0 but he sure isnt 100% ready yet.
8. CMC record as a favorite might be below .500?
9. ISU looked like a team full of themselves, thought theyd just show up and collect their trophy. Memphis played like this was their conference championship game. Memphis looked prepared and motivated. ISU looked like neither.
10. No idea why they brought back the "bring everyone into the phone booth" run scheme. Nightmare.
Purdy had to adjust and develop his game over 4 years, and was highly successful doing so. We have 2 NFL WR right now, with pretty good ones on the roster for next year. Jesus get a grip
We have a great young team with an incredibly bright future. We will learn from this and move forward. Next year we will be in a better bowl game and win. This was all part of the experience . The sky is the limit.
This is true. Then combine it with general bowl game fatigue and uninspiring bowl locations and attendance has certainly dropped and will continue to get worse — for ISU and seemingly every program. With 40+ bowl games your team makes it at 6-6 and sometimes even 5-7. So will fans continue to do expensive travel over the holidays when their team is going to its 12th bowl game in 13 years with none of them being playoff games?
The faking taking a knee before half was a bush league play. I think it should be banned. It is similiar to faking a slide by a runner. It happened few years ago in ACC title game. The runner faked a slide and kept on running. The NCAA banned it a few weeks later.
If the defensive lineman just played it like normal play. You would get uncessary roughness penalty. If indeed he takes knee. If you notice in the play the officials were in closer then normal.
I know in high school. The offensive player just says we are going to take a knee. We let defense know. Then ball is snapped and clock runs out.
Now should I just let it play out like a normal play? I am a hgh school referee. I haven't ever seen a fake in that situation. We might see it now.
If the defensive lineman just played it like normal play. You would get uncessary roughness penalty. If indeed he takes knee. If you notice in the play the officials were in closer then normal.
I know in high school. The offensive player just says we are going to take a knee. We let defense know. Then ball is snapped and clock runs out.
Now should I just let it play out like a normal play? I am a hgh school referee. I haven't ever seen a fake in that situation. We might see it now.
Memphis and Ohio do not have more 'cash' than we do, yet kicked the snot out of us this year. Our problem is coaching and details. Watch a team like Iowa - rarely do they beat themselves. If they lose, usually the other team is simply better/has more talent. And rarely are they unprepared for a game, unlike our coaching staff.
Meh. If ISU ran that you’d be loving it.
They only "don't matter" when you lose them. Otherwise you are told what a huge difference going into the off season there is between 8-5 and 7-6 from all the Cyclone podcasters and get videos from the AD how super important it is for everyone to take their time and money to be at them.
I'm cool if people are telling themselves "lol nothing matters" today out of a need to cope, but we should call it what it is. Iowa State was unprepared for this one and looked bad because of it. That's all.
To a true freshman. Not a positive sign of development. And I think Black can be good. Clanton will need a year or two to develop and show what he can actually do.
I mostly agree with you on this however, the play yesterday was within the current rules, and smart by them.
My biggest beef: That play SHOULD have absolutely lit a massive fire in our hearts and pissed our entire staff and team off…. It didn’t. I actually thought them running that play might be the key to our comeback win.
We have almost never win in the margins, we lose a crap load in the margins, rarely win
You're right, fans like you accept whatever BS he spouts with no expectation for improvement which is stupid.
