I've been reading a lot of posts in support of Paul Rhoads sticking around for another year, and I am saddened by how little we expect of our football team and coaches. I'm sick of the same chorus after another terrible football year of "Wait till next year, we will be better". That is the same thing I heard last year when Paul Rhoads should have been fired. I'm tired of being the fan base that expects so little of our football team that we can't be let down. I mean 3 wins... 3 wins?! We keep talking about how good the teams we lost to are, but we don't talk about how bad the teams we beat are. Everyone is over the moon about beating a 3-5 Texas team. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Would we expect so little from our basketball team? Would we constantly bemoan how difficult it is to recruit players to Ames is? No, we have had success, and now we expect something better. We should want the same thing for football. It reminds me a of a Kitchen Nightmares episode where the owner of a failing business is so scared to change (even though he is losing money hand over fist) because he doesn't want to alienate his current customers. I want to try something new. People ask me, "Who would you want instead?" My answer is, I don't care. Anyone else. This didn't work, next one up. Because what we are currently doing isn't working. I'm ready for a change.
FIRE PAUL RHOADS!!
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To answer your question, we do expect little from the basketball program. It showed when McDoormat was here. Fans wanted to keep him after 4 miserable years. Same things were said then. Who can we get to coach here, he just needs more time, too many coaching vacancies at major programs, etc. It's sad, but the truth is a bulk of our fans will support anything and don't really care.
A bowl game is still in play. If Rhoads gets to six I think he's earned one more year for getting there against this schedule, which is now officially the most difficult in the country. If he doesnt I agree with OP.
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He would be a better football coach and he probably hasnt watched football in his life.
Personally I think it's pretty simple: 1 more win and he's back. Either it's a road win against a mid-level conference foe or another top-10 home win.
Hell, 3 more I bet he'd get a raise and an extension.
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I think this is accurate because of the contract but more so the sheer number of coaching vacancies.
I dont agree with this. As I pasted in another thread, I think he has to win 2 of 3. We arent going to go get the same type of coach that VT, South Carolina, and so on will. We need someone that fits the mold of the players that we can recruit. We could get a guy like Matt Campbell or someone that can elevate the talent of lower recruited players.
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You might take a lot of **** for this post, especially the bolded part, but I think this kind of thinking says a lot about the ISU spirit and what really makes our fans so great. Don't get me wrong, I want Rhoads gone, think a bowl game should be the only thing that saves him, but it really does say a lot about this fanbase and how many of us still always have hope and can be positive, even while standing at the gates of hell.
It's pretty amazing, even if they aren't sellouts, the amount of people that still show up to games. The amount of improvements that have been done over the last few years for one of the worst football teams in a P5 conference and it's all due to the fans. It would really be nice, if we as fans could catch a break and really have some of this positivity turn into results on the field.
