No, one thing you can also connect to this stat is the change/push to change of the run first mentality.Thats an encouraging stat but what if Joel gets hurt. Does our programs success rest on one player?
No, one thing you can also connect to this stat is the change/push to change of the run first mentality.Thats an encouraging stat but what if Joel gets hurt. Does our programs success rest on one player?
I can. There seems to be some improvement, but still some major holes (as tre said).
Also, he blew 3.5 years before that improvement happened. If Rhoads really had a solid plan for improvement, we would have seen it long ago.
This shouldn't even be a debate. All we're doing is losing. That's enough to be fired.
The naivete that assumes that we can "blink" and fix everything with a new coach is just silly.
The question is "what is the path forward?" I still think our best path to conference championships is with Coach Rhoads . . . not with some coach to be named later.
The naivete that assumes that we can "blink" and fix everything with a new coach is just silly.
The question is "what is the path forward?" I still think our best path to conference championships is with Coach Rhoads . . . not with some coach to be named later.
Why the **** wasn't Lanning starting? That's an indictment of PR not an excuse for him.
I don't see this happening with him.Yes he was, and that is on CPR.
Guess what, everyone was crazy over Richardson after his first few starts, and eventually he got injured being so mobile, and became more of a pocket QB, and digressed. Our coaching staff has a weird way of making QB's digress, and its only a matter of time before everyone is calling for Lanning to be benched for the next guy.
Let's be honest here. Lanning shows promise but he's not that much better than Sam is. His mechanics are a mess when he has to move within the pocket. I would rather have him but I could see where as a coach you aren't ready to put him in until we did.
Agree. Imo a lot of the improvement has come from the QB position now being a threat to run, which has more to do with CPR making a staff move than QB change. That said Sam may have been too damaged to make the plays Lanning has while forcing the issue.
Am I the only one that has seen improvement since Lanning became the starting quarterback and Mangino was let go? I see improvement on both sides of the ball. We have the first 1,000 yard rusher since ARob. We have a mobile quarterback that rushed for over 100 yards last game. We held the 8th ranked team in the nation to 34 points, and oh did I forget, we led the game except for the last 5 minutes. All I see are people bad mouthing a coaching staff that is trying to get things going in a positive direction. I see people bad mouthing our players and saying they are not good enough to get wins. This is Iowa State, we are not Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor, or even this year (I hate to say it) Iowa. We are a work in progress and I am satisfied that things are moving in the right direction. If we pick up a few good JUCO players to fill a few holes for next year, we have a good core of returning players that can win.
Following the trends, with Rhoads, the path forward is downward.
I don't think anyone is really expecting a new coach to come in and fix everything in the blink of an eye, of course those could be the same people who thought Lanning was gong to be the instant cure and we'd win out.
That being said, what is more naive, to look at the last 7 seasons and think that Rhoads has us moving in the right direction, or to think if we found a successful new coach, that he wouldn't be able to build something better here?
I'd say at the very least, they are equally naive.
Funny thing is, all my ******** about Rhoads, I don't think it matters at all. I've said it on here before. I believe win or lose, the decision to keep Rhoads has already been made. I'll be surprised, without a colossal break down in the next two games, if he isn't coaching here next year.
I don't see this happening with him.
You don't think this year's team is much better than last year's team? You don't think this year's coaches have done a better job overall (albeit with some blatant mistakes)? You don't think we are set up to be even better next year?
Did you hear the post-game interview with Lalk in which he talked about Nick Fett? This guy is going to be great on the line next year.
I'm very disappointed with our win/loss record, but I think Rhoads has turned the ship in the right direction.
digressed or just inconsistent?Why? What does Lanning do that is so much different then what we have seen other QB's do in their initial starts.
We have had some great QB performances in the CPR tenure, and they have ALL digressed.
Iowa state is a coaching graveyard. Letting Rhoads go would only prove that. I just don't see a new coach being the answer right now. Give him another year lol
The naivete that assumes that we can "blink" and fix everything with a new coach is just silly.
The question is "what is the path forward?" I still think our best path to conference championships is with Coach Rhoads . . . not with some coach to be named later.
What are people seeing in Paul Rhoads and this coaching staff to actually WANT them back next year? It can be the wins. It can't be the in-game decisions. It can't be player development. So what is it?