Holy ****! It's like they watched a completely different game.
I am pretty sure that they don't remember anything about it, just throwing **** at a wall, like a bunch of chimpanzees
We've reached the McCarney point
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Holy ****! It's like they watched a completely different game.
I am pretty sure that they don't remember anything about it, just throwing **** at a wall, like a bunch of chimpanzees
McCarney was good for ISU, but his coaching career had run its course. Pretty tough to go 1-7 in the Big 12 in his 12th season. We were also 9-23 in Big12 play during his final 4 years. Sure that included 2 bowl games, but after 12 years it was time for a change. Anyone at the KU game in 2006 can attest to that. The atmosphere at JT was pretty close to that today. A good percent left by half.
IMO Wally will retire after this season and Paul Rhoads will hire Paul Rhoads as ISU's next defensive coordinator. I think we having have upgraded the coaching staff with recent hires. We also has some really nice players. The problem is our O-line, D-line and LB's just don't play at the level needed to be competitive in the Big12.
IMO Wally will retire after this season and Paul Rhoads will hire Paul Rhoads as ISU's next defensive coordinator. I think we having have upgraded the coaching staff with recent hires. We also has some really nice players. The problem is our O-line, D-line and LB's just don't play at the level needed to be competitive in the Big12.
We're 6-18 since we beat Baylor in Jake Knott's last game, with wins over Tulsa, Toledo, Iowa, WVU, and Kansas (2), and losses to Tulsa, UNI, and NDSU. 0-15 versus everyone else with a pulse. Looking at our position groups returning next year I think we're Big XII caliber at WR, safety, kicker, and punter, and woefully short at DL and LB. The only thing keeping us from becoming Kansas is Kansas. Today's crowd said it all, even before the beat down started. I'd say Pollard has 1 yr to scrape together buy out money and find a new coach. The SEZ will sell an artificial number of tickets next year but after that the product has to improve.
Genius.
Your lack of knowledge would be funny if you did not actually believe you know anything about Iowa State football.
9 win season where we only had to play two ranked teams all year and they both crushed us. Apples to oranges schedules then and now.
There's a big difference between our current schedule and the schedule of the past, but I can certainly understand the idea that they're similar without the 9 win season, just from the standpoint of disappointment. We've gotten worse under Rhoads, and when you lose by 20 to an FCS team, you forfeit the right to say "dang, our schedule this year was tough! That's why we didn't win!"
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Even as bad as this team is, give them the scheules that brenda's beater had, where EVERYONE got bad at the same damn time, they would have still won 1 or 2 more games. NDSU is better than KU, MU, NU under callahan, aging snyder k state's first go around, and even CU.
Pre T Boone $$$ okie state wasn't any good, and of course baylor was THE doormat of the conference for the first 13 years of existence.
Another lil tidbit for those mac folks trying to revise history, baylor had not won a road conference game for the first 9 seasons of Big 12 existence before mr husband of the year found a way to lose to them.
And of course we can discuss how many more wins this staff would have had against those pillow fight north divisions mac ****** away.
Did you watch the teams of the Big 12 north in the early 2000's when mac was here?
This eras North Dakota State would have been more than competitive in that division.
I'm not sure how some people say that Rhoads has brought in more talent than McCarney did. The whole "the talent is way better now" idea is a myth. Look at who McCarney recruited and count how many of those guys ended up in the NFL. I could name a lot of players that he recruited who ended up in the NFL. Rosenfels, Wallace, Hobbs, etc... How many Rhoads recruits are currently in the NFL? Not very many. Klein and George are the only ones I can think of. Bibbs is the only NFL prospect on the team right now. Rhoads has yet to have any success with players that he actually recruited.
The Big 12 north wasn't that terrible in the early 2000's. Our schedules in those years were not as easy as everyone makes them out to be.
2000: We went 9-3, K-State and Nebraska were both top 10.
2001: Colorado and Nebraska were both top 10.
2002: We went 7-7, Colorado and K-State were both top 20 and we also played Texas, OU, and Florida State. 4 of those teams were in the top 7 in the AP Poll when we played them. Oh, and we beat Iowa on the road that year and they finished 8th.
2003: We were god-awful, but we played #23 Iowa, @#20 NIU, #1 OU, #12 Texas and @#14 Nebraska.
Look at '02 and '03. Those schedules were AT LEAST just as bad as this year's schedule. While we didn't have to play Texas and OU every year back then, we didn't get to play Baylor, A&M and OSU, who were all crummy.
And we get it, you don't understand that the world does not exist in a vacuum, and there is such a thing as cause and effect.
You have already been mocked for your "winning" attitude, but maybe you should take that more to heart, rather than continue to demonstrate your lack of knowledge
Its pretty clear by now that CPR is doing worse at recruiting than Dmac or Chiz did.
No it isn't. It IS clear that the recruiting that was being done his first two full recruiting classes was affected by the fact that everytime Iowa State was mentioned on any and every media outlet, it was because we were going to be demoted out of the BCS.
Now, the last 2 recruiting classes have shown improvement in measurables. Can they be developed? The answer will determine CPR's fate
