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[Thomasrickj]

How many more years of fans trying to rationalize our failures and mock fans who want more?

How many more years of being asked to be "all in" before some sort of non-6-6 bowl game?

Remember that there are always those people out there that think we are "bad fans" because we are tired of getting embarrassed despite how much this fanbase has stuck by their team. I, for one, am sick of this and can't stand the fans who continue to accept being a bottom feeder.

 

[Clonefan94]

I'm immensely disturbed by this entire forum following the loss against a VERY good NDST program.

Yes, we got our butts kicked.
Yes, we all are ****** off.
Yes, the defense sucks.

BUT, please don't attack Paul Rhoads. Don't call for his job. The dude is freaking awesome for this university and will eventually strike gold. Besides, he's the best man for the job - PERIOD.

The offense sucked when Farniok went down. No doubt - much like last season.
Give ManGenius time to install his offense.

We have a football program that is historically one of the worst of all time. This has been and will continue to change during CPR's legacy. We lost to probably the greatest FCS school of all time. I'm sick of these armagedeon reactions from fair weather, insecure fans who can't stand by ISU for better or worse. You sound like Hok fans. And you make me sick.

Also, Chris Williams shall never be criticized for his post game comments. This dude is spot on.

We all have our levels of being disturbed. Mine is the fact that for 2 years in a row now, we don't look like we belonged on the field with an FCS school. No matter how good of a program it is, they have no business blowing out a power 5 conference school.

Congrats to them, they deserved this win and then some.

Not sure what bothers me more though, this kind of loss or the fans who still accept this as "Well, we are ISU, what do you expect?"

Myself, I expect better.

 

[swarthmoreCY]

Kansas, Colorado, Minnesota, and Kansas State say Hi and thats just the last 4 years.. We aren't the first FBS team to lose to the bison. Get over it.

It was CSU.
Beat KU 6-3. You know what happened to KU's coach?
The only legitimate win was a come from behind fluke against KSU. 2 years prior a better KSU team basically had the same kind of snoozfest against a bad Eastern Kentucky team. The Wizard, we do not have.

 

[jtdoyle1]

The idea that Rhoads is the only man for the job is nonsense. He got historically lucky against nebby and then had one AWESOME game against osu. Besides that it's been buckets of suck including the worst loss in ISU history and consecutive losses to fcs programs. Let's face reality before we go full board McDermott excuse train. What we watched today was pathetic, simply pathetic. The ISU fan base deserves much, much better.

Yes the bad losses have been bad but don't take away from the good wins like they meant nothing.

 

[CoKane]

Kansas, Colorado, Minnesota, and Kansas State say Hi and thats just the last 4 years.. We aren't the first FBS team to lose to the bison. Get over it.

Kansas and Colorado haven't been close to bowl games in years, while Minnesota was the laughing stock of Power conference football for a while. Not exactly great company to be in.

 

[Clonefan32]

I don't think it'll do us any good to fire CPR, but I'm also not exactly singing his praises. If he were fired tomorrow, I don't think I'd characterize his tenure as a success.

 

[nickcyv]

Yes the bad losses have been bad but don't take away from the good wins like they meant nothing.

Did capitalizing awesome not get my point across? I guess I could write an essay on how CPR didn't build off that win?

 

[HonkytonkGigolo]

Kansas, Colorado, Minnesota, and Kansas State say Hi and thats just the last 4 years.. We aren't the first FBS team to lose to the bison. Get over it.

And this isn't last year's Bison team. You know, the one that won three straight titles? Yeah, they had to replace all of that talent and the coaches that built them up. Also, I wouldn't exactly compare what they did to KSU to what this year's team did to ISU.

 

[tjamz]

FBS teams should not get embarrassed at home by an FCS team period. We suck and flat out got out coached.

While this is true, think about Kansas State last year. Arguably one of the best coaches in college football ever, a guy that they dedicated a statue to in front of their stadium before the game..... yeah, same thing happened to them too.

I hope I don't sound cocky when I say that (I didn't come here to talk ****), what I am saying is that NDSU has a good program. One that knows it's strengths & weaknesses and really doesn't deviate too far from the norm from year to year. We also are very good at adjusting to opposing offenses.

I wish ISU the best going forward. And my point of this thread was don't let this game deflate you, use it as motivation.... both as fans and players. Yeah, you should be asking your coach what they will do different for the rest of the season. But don't throw away the season based on a single loss.... regardless of if the team you lost to is Division 1 FCS NDSU or Division 1 FBS Alabama.

 

[MaccloNe]

I love football and going to ISU games. Yeah, today sucked, but i still had a good time.

 

[Gloves]

I love football and going to ISU games. Yeah, today sucked, but i still had a good time.

As long as there are 50,000 fans that feel like you everything stays the same because this is all about money. As long as Jamie has a sell out he is happy. If people are satisfied with the product and re up on their tickets Paul could go 0 and 12 and all is cool. What do the fans want.

NDSU did not have a player ISU would want or recruit. NDSU had 9 new coaches all of which would give their eye teeth to be good enough to coach Division I. We have better facilities but were gased after 3 series and couldn't go on the rest of the game. But no one is making excuses for them only us.

 

[Omaha Cy]

In 2009, 2010, & 2011 it really felt like ISU was very close to turning the corner. 2012 came along and ISU had a pretty damn good defense from top to bottom, quite a lot returning on offense, and then they went F'n 6-7...and that started to really sour me.

ISU now seems to be in an eternal vortex of trying to develop young talent all over the place. A very young team last year, and they will be again all this season. ISU will return a lot next year and we'll all probably get duped all over again thinking we may have something here.

Rhoads has really burnt up my sense of optimism, or giving him the benefit of doubt anymore. Now we aren't even getting those big upset wins, just uber embarrassing losses.

I think my reaction is perfectly warranted.

 

[swarthmoreCY]

While this is true, think about Kansas State last year. Arguably one of the best coaches in college football ever, a guy that they dedicated a statue to in front of their stadium before the game..... yeah, same thing happened to them too.

I hope I don't sound cocky when I say that (I didn't come here to talk ****), what I am saying is that NDSU has a good program. One that knows it's strengths & weaknesses and really doesn't deviate too far from the norm from year to year. We also are very good at adjusting to opposing offenses.

I wish ISU the best going forward. And my point of this thread was don't let this game deflate you, use it as motivation.... both as fans and players. Yeah, you should be asking your coach what they will do different for the rest of the season. But don't throw away the season based on a single loss.... regardless of if the team you lost to is Division 1 FCS NDSU or Division 1 FBS Alabama.

Check out Eastern Kentucky-KSU 2011. KSU tends to plays down to the opposition in the non-conference. Even then, it was a fluke win. I don't think anyone that watched your game with them last year thought you were the better team or that KSU had fundamental flaws.

On the other hand, this game today was eerily similar to the UNI game last season, except UNI looked like a better team. Today it looked like s bad team ***-whooping a horrible team. CPR must go.

 

[inCyteful]

So why did they beat KSU?

The won a close game over KSU.

The kicked the **** out of and demoralized us. No comparison between the two games. One was competitive, one wasn't. We were NOT competitive with an FCS school. Understand that? There is no way to sugar coat this one anyway you slice it.

 

[Cychedelia]

The won a close game over KSU.

The kicked the **** out of and demoralized us. No comparison between the two games. One was competitive, one wasn't. We were NOT competitive with an FCS school. Understand that? There is no way to sugar coat this one anyway you slice it.

A loss is a loss.

 

[inCyteful]

A loss is a loss.

Brilliant analysis. But you are right. ISU lost again for the 10th time in the last 13 games and since you are so fond of comparing our situation to KSU - how many times have they lost in the last 13 games? Or does your comparison stop where convenient?

 

[Wesley]

While this is true, think about Kansas State last year. Arguably one of the best coaches in college football ever, a guy that they dedicated a statue to in front of their stadium before the game..... yeah, same thing happened to them too.

I hope I don't sound cocky when I say that (I didn't come here to talk ****), what I am saying is that NDSU has a good program. One that knows it's strengths & weaknesses and really doesn't deviate too far from the norm from year to year. We also are very good at adjusting to opposing offenses.

I wish ISU the best going forward. And my point of this thread was don't let this game deflate you, use it as motivation.... both as fans and players. Yeah, you should be asking your coach what they will do different for the rest of the season. But don't throw away the season based on a single loss.... regardless of if the team you lost to is Division 1 FCS NDSU or Division 1 FBS Alabama.

This is based on the last two years.

 

[Wesley]

A loss is a loss.

More to come.

 

[Cychedelia]

More to come.

Maybe, I'm not really wanting to do this much longer.

 

[brett108]

It seems like a tough argument to make that the defense allowed 34 straight points. I'd say it was the offenses fault. The offence got the ball after every bad guy score, and didn't do anything with it.

When you give up 80 yard runs(which they did twice one was called back) the defense has nowhere to hide. 500 total yards. That's what they gave up. No one should be defending anything about this team including the defense.