ISU Football New Years Resolution

[ISUCubswin]

What changes are you guys wanting to see next year?

I have 5.

1. A competent offensive line.

2. Faster starts to football games. We scored a grand total of 6 points in the first quarter of our 5 losses. No, 6 isn't the average. It's the total. For comparison, we scored 64 points in the first quarter of our 8 wins.

3. Take this offseason to figure out how an offense that works. I'm happy with averaging nearly 27 points a game, but I thought it was pretty disappointing when we had the QB, HB, and WR combo that we had. It almost seemed like we had to have our backs against the wall at times for us to get the ball to Butler or learn that maybe running it right up the gut with David against 8 men isn't a great idea.

4. Basing this simply off his speed, create a formation that allows Re-al and Purdy to be on the field together frequently next year. CMC is the genius at creating this stuff, so I'll leave it up to him. If you have a weapon, use it.

5. I want Assalley to take whatever he did the last month and keep doing it. I'm not sure if it was because we were indoors or what, but he looked great last night.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Better offensive line play

More unpredictable play calling

 

[tolfbfan]

Keep doing what you are doing CMC. Follow the "PLAN".

 

[omar34]

Better and unbiase TV announcers, those 2 last night were Terrible! ESPN needs to quit having all the bowl games, they have let most of their good announcers go?! All about the almighty buck! Fox could also do some of these bowl games! Refs seemed to be against us most of the game too!

 

[JP4CY]

I totally agree with Assalley. From the my perspective, it even seemed like Wazzu was trying to jump over the lineman when was kicking.

We were also really spoiled by Kirby’s punting a few years back. Our punting needs to get a lot more consistent thru the year.

 

[Naddafinga]

We need a Big Improvement in regard to offensive line performance. Imo that was our achilles' heel this year.

 

[CyGuy5]

1. Better o-line
2. Offensive coordinator
3. Better special teams

 

[dirtyninety]

What changes are you guys wanting to see next year?


2. Faster starts to football games. We scored a grand total of 6 points in the first quarter of our 5 losses. No, 6 isn't the average. It's the total. For comparison, we scored 64 points in the first quarter of our 8 wins.

3. Take this offseason to figure out how an offense that works. I'm happy with averaging nearly 27 points a game, but I thought it was pretty disappointing when we had the QB, HB, and WR combo that we had. It almost seemed like we had to have our backs against the wall at times for us to get the ball to Butler or learn that maybe running it right up the gut with David against 8 men isn't a great idea.
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Good post. The first quarter stat is shocking...I knew it was bad, but that bad? wow. It is almost the opposite of the McCarney years, if you remember those. We would often have these wonderful first drives of scripted plays...everyone would be like "why can't we play the whole game like this?" To their credit, the coaches he had then scripted some good first drives.....then the wheels would fall off.
With all the 1st down handoffs, again, last night I keep thinking CMC is just using early drives to set up plays later....but to a fault. We do need to throw our best offense out there earlier though....obviously.

That was a catch.

 

[fsanford]

Not a lot I remember when ISU really sucked all the time.

Just continue to build the program with better recruiting classes.

 

[Bewilderme]

Improve the offensive line. Hoping we start to see some of the young hosses play like Hudson, Ramos, and Downing come along. They need to be road graders to make our system work.

We need to spice up the playcalling a bit. Too often we run 1st/2nd down and hamstring ourselves. Sometimes it works, but more often it doesn't.

PAY Heacock. That was a masterful performance. Next guy up (Uwazurike, Harvey going down didn't phase us).

Utilize our TEs more in the passing game. Love our 2 TE sets, but we can really take advantage of them more.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Fewer false starts?

 

[CyArob]

1. OL improvement. Some of these redshirt freshman and sophomores next year need to be recruiting hits and not misses.

2. Better special teams all around.

 

[clonebb]

We need better:

Offense
Defense
Special teams

Upgrade these three things by 25% and I would be happy.

Find young competent officials. The game is to fast for the old fat blind guys.

 

[KnappShack]

Triple option offense like Army. O-line can take that narrow stance and fire off the call.

Our RBs should be outstanding and Purdy can run.

Other than that I'll just enjoy this ride

 

[cyfamily]

Consistent punter that gets used very little.

The other stuff....I trust CMC..

 

[CTTB78]

1) OL development from both player execution and improved coaching.

2) First down play calling is too predictable early in the game. We have a great young talent at QB. Call his number.

 

[harimad]

5. I want Assalley to take whatever he did the last month and keep doing it. I'm not sure if it was because we were indoors or what, but he looked great last night.

Great post. Mostly agree with all of it. Wanted to focus on 5, because I also put his prowess last night down to playing indoors.

Didn't someone earlier in the season offer to build a giant root over JTS? If we could have that thing in place before next September, I feel like we'd have a huge advantage in the kicking game.