List of issues that have been present the entire run of CMC
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No, he’s not. He’s describing Iowa State football. Most average-to-good teams are not this consistently subpar in these areas year after year. And certainly no top 15 teams are. Which probably explains last season adequately.
Cats been gone for a while unless you know he's new handle. I don't know which it is.
Plenty of Teams don’t need transition years. The pieces are there for Iowa State to be a conference contender this year. Such a losers mentality to try to explain these games away with “transition year” BS. The conference is as winnable this year as ever. Freaking Kansas is taking advantage.
I certainly don't think a change should be forced. That only leads down a bad road. I hope that Campbell realizes a change needs to be made and does it himself.
Transition year would be understandable for this season, EXCEPT it's becoming clear the league is wide-open for the taking (or at least contending). This season's team on-paper has less potential than 2021, when the team underachieved. But actually still could have a better record overall.
There's still time for that to happen ... not saying I'm confident it will, but we have 7 games to do it. But we can't keep squandering the chances.
I think he was stuck and 9 wins early in his career and couldn't make the national title. Basically he would win 9 games and lose to Oklahoma every year, and people thought his career had peaked there.
Pollard literally just said on KXNO last week one of his selling points to Campbell is having full control; zero chance he or anyone else forces anything upon him anytime soon.
Which is fine, but I think you need to review these year over year similarities and issues and make a big change in how the coaches practice and train the players. They’ve made small changes in previous years, but that doesn’t seem to be fixing the same underlying short coming’s every season.
Continuous improvement is good, but something continues to get missed.
Realistically there are some issues but we’re overreacting.
Could the offense be better? Yes, I’ve never been 100% sold on Manning, but the offense finished in the top half of the Big 12 the last three years. Some tweaks can be made without starting over completely.
Are special teams a disaster? Yes, this needs to be addressed.
Do we have a poor record in one-score games? Yes, but those are one score games. In the past, many of those games would be blowout losses. Address special teams and we’d probably be around .500 in those games.
Our over/under for wins this year in Vegas was 6.5. Most outsiders saw this as a rebuilding year. We just lost a game on the road by three to a team ranked in the top 25 and we were without our top two RBs.
Could the offense be better? Yes, I’ve never been 100% sold on Manning, but the offense finished in the top half of the Big 12 the last three years. Some tweaks can be made without starting over completely.
Are special teams a disaster? Yes, this needs to be addressed.
Do we have a poor record in one-score games? Yes, but those are one score games. In the past, many of those games would be blowout losses. Address special teams and we’d probably be around .500 in those games.
Our over/under for wins this year in Vegas was 6.5. Most outsiders saw this as a rebuilding year. We just lost a game on the road by three to a team ranked in the top 25 and we were without our top two RBs.
Never happened before Campbell at Iowa State. Never. We lost a game to 5-0 Kansas @ Kansas who is now ranked in the Top 25. We had the opportunity to win many times. The players didn’t execute the plays. Need to learn from it and move on. Get ready for the next game.
Or should we just fire Campbell and hire CoKane. Obviously he is smarter than Campbell. Wonder which P5 school he is Head Coach at.
I think the makeup of the staff is kind of weird.
Seems like it’s pretty common for the OC to also be say the QB coach. I actually think originally Manning was OC and TE’s coach. I also believe Heacock was originally DC and S’s.
Seems like a waste to me to have a TE’s coach, as well as a CB’s and S’s coach’s when our WR and RB coach are the same guy, and we have no ST’s coach.
I’d like to see a new OL coach, I’d like to see a special teams coach who maybe doubles as another position coach. I think the OC and DC should pick up a position again. It worked out well originally where Manning was TE’s as well, and he could coach them, or they could go with the OL or WR group. Same with Heacock, he could coach the safeties or they could run with the DB coach.
Seems like it’s pretty common for the OC to also be say the QB coach. I actually think originally Manning was OC and TE’s coach. I also believe Heacock was originally DC and S’s.
Seems like a waste to me to have a TE’s coach, as well as a CB’s and S’s coach’s when our WR and RB coach are the same guy, and we have no ST’s coach.
I’d like to see a new OL coach, I’d like to see a special teams coach who maybe doubles as another position coach. I think the OC and DC should pick up a position again. It worked out well originally where Manning was TE’s as well, and he could coach them, or they could go with the OL or WR group. Same with Heacock, he could coach the safeties or they could run with the DB coach.
Who here has called for Campbell to be fired? Stop with these stupid ass loser responses. And blaming it in the players!? Ha, that’s some impressive BS coaching apologist sh*t right there.
This staff’s teams have demonstrated the same issues year after year after year. Issues that literally stem from coaching. Different players, same issues. It does not get anymore black and white than that.
It is absolutely fine and normal and valid for fans to be frustrated that this same sh*t continues to plague Iowa State football. The same sh*t that can and should be fixed by this staff. They are standing in their own way! You think 7 wins is great!? Imagine also winning close games! And no, JFC it does not matter literally at all that Iowa State used to suck at football. Nothing that occurred before 2015 matters at all, in any way. No one cares. Iowa State football is a good program in 2022; freaking act like it. Demand that these current coaches fix this obvious and completely fixable sh*t.
I think CMC needs to make some changes to his staff, and I hope he recognizes that and does it himself. I don’t want a CPR situation where changes are made and a new OC is told you run the same system even though it isn’t what you know.
Yeah I never defended Prohm. In fact I was ready to part ways pretty early on. But part of that was because we never developed an identity in basketball and the Iowa State basketball program has a very different history then ISU fb.
Once again I don’t have issues with being frustrated. I was frustrated yesterday. But honestly Dekkers just wasn’t good at all. Your best player needs to play better than a C- game for us to win. The kicking game was a disaster but it should have never came down to that.
I would have personally gone for it on 4th and 1 but I understand the reasoning. It is a 38 yd FG. And the offense hasn’t exactly been clicking. You are relying on your QB to still go 18 yds in 45 seconds and not turn the ball over. And if I look to overtime of the 4 units which one is the best…The Iowa State defense. And the Kansas kicker is way worse then our kicker. I wouldn’t have tried to kick the FG but I understand the reasoning.
I just find it absolutely incredible we have a defense in the Campbell era that 85% of college football would love to have, and have not been able to compliment it with a consistently good offense and special teams. We would have a conference title by now if we did.
Everyone sticking up for manning saying this has been the highest ranking offense Iowa state has had over the years. He has also had the most talent. Butler, Lazard, Montgomery, purdy, hall, kolar, Allen, etc. He has done less with more.
