With Ward being in the top three of every mock draft I’ve seen (along with the two CU kids) I would be shocked to see him in the Pop Tart bowl.
Iowa State vs. Miami in Pop Tarts Bowl (Orlando)
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Yeah, I know if we lose by 30 people are going to howl about it...both our fans and the people who want ISU/Big 12 ground into the dust.
So if we somehow beat Miami, regardless of if their NFL guys suit up, I'm going to fully enjoy it as a 100% awesome win without any disclaimer.
The 2020 season even more, this idea that because less fans could attend games we have to pretend our best and most talented team loaded with NFL stars didn't exist...don't fall for that ISU fans.
Someone else mentioned a special NIL deal could involve some extremely fat insurance policy.
Something like that wouldn't shock me, without something like that it's kind of crazy. People then say "well why play at all", but he wouldn't be a projected top pick without showing out this year. You could argue sitting out second half or last few games of a season but not the whole season.
If he does I'm guessing it isn't announced until just before the teams head for Orlando.
We requested club level seats through ISU (donate $300 to NCC). I figured we wouldn't get our request fulfilled but we did. Got to figure that doesn't bode well for attendence.
Probably.
But maybe it just means that there will be a different crowd than the usuals at this one.
That will move the line.
Heres the (very) optimistic take:
Rest of miami team gets complacent because he is playing.
Ward fakes an injury after his 2nd interception and doesnt play the 2nd half.
Is it time to fire up the "QB is not mobile" alert?
He's mobile, he just refuses to use it
Refusing to get up from the couch doesn't usually count.
...but this time, we'll allow it.
I've been assuming he has to keep saying this ahead of the Heisman voting. We'll see what he says next week.
I'd bet he doesn't play, or maybe dresses and plays sparingly.
If he and his coaches have done any opposition research--they will know we will only rush three people the entire first half and he will not even be touched, much less get a grass stain on his uniform.....so I agree he will probably play most of first half then have a plan to sit out rest of game when they are up two or three touchdowns.
After watching all the warriors in both games so far today.....I really hope our coaches and Rocco re-consider his conditioning to slide feet first for this last game.....seriously.......so many critical yards given up when the referee cheats you 2 or 3 every time (yes, even about the subjective "start to slide" point). And you could argue the effort to slide and be passive actually can cause more dangerous exposure, hits, or injury. Deliver the hit Rocco....don't recieve it.
This is just such an incredibly dumb take. Mouser as a first year OC did a fantastic job of being creative while also being balanced between pass and run. Scheelhaus left us in a bad spot leaving in mid February.
