Guys, lay off Waco... I love Ames, but plenty to make fun of...but more importantly, Waco is a pretty alright place, have done business down there for 15 years, it growing and developing...Brazos is great and plenty to do...never been to game, but town is good and ladies are quite nice in certain areas...if u want a laid back town bar restaurant, go to Georges, have a Big o and a burger
Iowa State will beat Baylor.
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Ames is a much nicer city than Waco. It routinely wins awards for being one of the best small cities to live in in the United States.
The Baylor campus is really nice, but the rest of the town is a dump.
Ames is small, but it's nice. Most of the people who rip Ames have never been here.
Ames grew from 52,000 to 60,000 between 2000 and 2010. Try again.
Ames, and Central Iowa in general, isn't dying at all. The Des Moines metro is constantly at the top of "Best City for...." lists, and that growth is helping Ames.
F all this Ames vs Waco crap. RG3 cries like a girl anytime he gets hit and thinks he should get a flag.
Saturday night can't get here fast enough. If last weekend's debacle is making me miserable, I can only imagine how amped up the players and coaching staff are to get on the field and turn things around.
Baylor averages like 45 points a game...
ISU....about 20ppg (if you just include regulation of Iowa Game)
Thatis all I need to know about this game. In Waco...
Baylor 37 - ISU 17
Our offense is a B- . But when you count the Penalties and Turnovers....about a D+ which leads to the Defense giving up points.
ISU....about 20ppg (if you just include regulation of Iowa Game)
Thatis all I need to know about this game. In Waco...
Baylor 37 - ISU 17
Our offense is a B- . But when you count the Penalties and Turnovers....about a D+ which leads to the Defense giving up points.
Dude are you seriously going to use that list as a reference? Fargo, ND! Sioux Falls, SD!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like I said, keep on doing the town smack. I guess that means you know you are going to be destroyed on Saturday!!!!! hahhahahahahahahaha!!!!
Like I said, keep on doing the town smack. I guess that means you know you are going to be destroyed on Saturday!!!!! hahhahahahahahahaha!!!!
The biggest key to the game is ISU needs to do everything they can to shut down kendal wright. The second half of the TCU and KSU games wright got doubled or the defense shaded to him. When that happen Baylor didn't do anything on offense. Make the other WR beat you or RG with his legs. Take out their best weapon and ISU can win.
But then again saying take Wright out of the game is easier said then done.
But then again saying take Wright out of the game is easier said then done.
Seriously man, you have no room to "lol" any other town. Waco is to Texas what Waterloo is to Iowa... nobody who isn't from there wants to claim it as part of the state.
completely agree and this whole debate is silly. Both places have nice things and people.
Exactly.
You can call Ames "small" and accuse it of lacking large scale culture, but you can't call it a dump.
Waco is by almost all reports, a dump. Although BU's actual campus is nice.
Oh man. All of this Ames vs. Waco smack reminds me of the Ames vs. Manhattan arguments. Then, KSU became a new "rival" of ours. If Mizzou leaves, we lose a rival. I think this only means one thing:
Baylor will be our new rival. :twitcy:
Baylor will be our new rival. :twitcy:
Manhattan >>>>>>> Waco
Manhattan is just really, really rural. It's not bad, there's just sheep grazing across the street from BSFS. It's even less cosmopolitan than Ames, but its a lot nicer place than Waco.
Manhattan is just really, really rural. It's not bad, there's just sheep grazing across the street from BSFS. It's even less cosmopolitan than Ames, but its a lot nicer place than Waco.
And then we beat texas the next game, im hoping baylor replaces texas this year
1- I agree that you will come ready to play and will have a very good chance at beating us.
2- Shutting down McNutt was a great effort by your D but to a certain extent played into utilizing your strongest personnel. You had one elite corner in LJ to match with one elite WR in McNutt. Their formations rarely used multiple WR and their running game didn't really utilize the option run plays we do. This makes it apples to oranges. If LJ is shutting down our outside WR thats fine and good but what happens to your safeties and nickel defender? Shutting down a WR in a 2 wr power handoff offense is quite different than stopping a spread pass & option run team in terms of how you defend them.
Your best personnel is 4 line, 3 backers, and 4 dbs. Your backers are great taking on blocks and having them and your safeties near the line takes some pressure off your smaller DEs in the run game.
A team attacking you with 4 WR changes things as now your DEs have less help in the run game and you either have 1 LB on the field or give up coverage flexibility with 2 LBs as the 2nd won't run with Wright or Reese.
3- Your base defense is probably better at defending Iowa than TCU would be. However their DL and safeties probably match up better against us. If RG3 had simply missed his difficult deep throws for TDs against man coverage you would have had similar results to what TCU did to several teams last year. If you also take away the 2 WR passes that we tricked them with for 55 yards you get the following:
58.6%
5.33 per play and more pedestrian results.
Take our game against them last year and give us the 3 bad drops for 30 yards to start off. Then give us the wide open deep route where our slot had burned their safety on what would have been a 73 yard bomb RG3 flat out missed.
It goes from 263 yards and less than 5 per play to 366 and 6.5 a pop.
The TCU D is still very good. Both BU and SMU had guys open last year and protected the QB pretty well in 2010 vs the Frogs but simply kept missing the throws. RG3 is much improved throwing it and SMU has a more accurate QB and the results are pretty self explanatory. They replaced 2 safety starters and 2 DL who with experienced backups who were semi starters recently. They replaced 1 corner with a top JUCO guy. The overall talent is still very good and their best DL guys are still there with Maponga and Yendrey.
June Jones on TCU's defense compared to last year before their game:
To outsiders, TCU looks vulnerable this year. Not so for SMU head coach June Jones, who said the Horned Frogs look as tough as ever.
"They look exactly the same to me," Jones said. "They've done a great job with their schemes [on] both sides of the ball, and just recruiting and plugging in new bodies."
SMU and TCU to renew old rivalry Saturday | wfaa.com Dallas - Fort Worth
4- Our offense is probably the first offense you will see this year that will attack you in a similar fashion to how Tech and Utah went after you. UConn and Iowa use power run mainly, UNI doesn't throw it much, and Texas will only occasionally go with the spread plays as they do a little of everything with Harsin.
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