Agree. It's like last years performance got a "pass" after the 2020 covid season. WTF. Should have been the best season in history. In reality a real flop.
Campbell Still in Demand?
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To me it's not the results as much of the patterns and habits producing these results.
Feels like we're actively losing more than being beaten by far superior teams.
Last year was not rough. How long have you been a Cyclone fan?
The same people ******** about last year say that 2020 was a fluke. Can’t have it both ways.
We should have beaten Iowa and won the conference with the talent we had and this amazing coaching staff you love.
Biggest underachievement since 2005.
This coaching staff brought in that talent. They are bringing in more talent. Inconsistency is killing us. We make big mistakes that kill us. Struggling. Best course of action is to let Campbell figure it out. He will. Your plan of chasing away Campbell is idiotic. What is your plan other than to ***** and moan constantly?
Yes.
Teams have figured CampbellBall out, and simply play accordingly.
Typically, if it is close now, they win, we don't, at around 80%.
We "keep it close", but don't win.
Even with NFL talent we rarely could adequately respond to our opponents' realization and adjustments.
I'm trying to make Cyclone Nation aware that the Campbell moment has passed.
Any mistakes in a game will doom ISU due to Campbell's style. He didn't figure it out with more talent last year, what new "difference making" talent do you see fixing his stubbornness?
CampbellBall is completely out of touch with the style of football kids want to play. Best athletes are now at QB and WR, where they get paid. Not RB. Even defenders want stats. All of those things work against ISU in recruiting now. Every D1 football player thinks they are going to the NFL. NFL is a passing and sack league now.
CMC is gonna make ISU KF style with a worse line and a tougher schedule. Imagine defending that and wanting more of that.
2020 is seeming to be a fluke year where the breaks went our way in some close games and we beat teams at the right time. Oregon was not a good football team and we dodged Iowa because of COVID. The last two years, we haven’t gotten the breaks in close games and seem to be playing teams at the wrong time.
The most frustrating part about this program is they have already done the hard part, which is build a great defense. That is the hardest thing in college football to pull off. Offense is the easy part, most schools can put a competent offense on the field but we failed at the easy part of the game. If we just had a mediocre offense this year we would be undefeated. We are wasting a great defense with this garbage offense. And for Gods sakes, hire a fking special teams coach please.
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I am sure this season has hurt Matt Campbell's ability to jump to a blue blood type program that are currently solid programs and their coach decides to move on after this season. Examples would be programs like LSU, Notre Dame, USC or Oklahoma after last season. I would bet Matt Campbell is still very attractive to programs like Nebraska, Ga Tech, ASU. And there will be other similar programs that could be looking for a new coach after the season like Indiana.
Campbell isn't the perfect coach, but he is a great leader and he cares about his players. AND he does thing right from an academics and developing his players to be successful in life.
We are close, all of our 5 losses have come down to 2 or 3 plays. But sport is binary- the end result is either a W or L.
Campbell isn't the perfect coach, but he is a great leader and he cares about his players. AND he does thing right from an academics and developing his players to be successful in life.
We are close, all of our 5 losses have come down to 2 or 3 plays. But sport is binary- the end result is either a W or L.
I would say (and I am probably wrong) but I think that Matt C needs to reevaluate his recruiting & go heavy in the portal for next year.
If Matt C loses the rest of this season the heat will really be on him next year to get to a bowl game!!
Matt Campbell could be the second coming of Scott Frost ie able to win at ISU but no where else...I feel sorry for Scott Frost but DAMM I would love to have his bank account right now!!
Good ol boy Frosty took an extra four million dollars from his alma mater Nebraska
HELL will FREEZE OVER before Nebraska takes Matt Campbell...With the last 2 yrs record the Husker Fan Base would go completely BALLISTIC!!
I AGREE also that Stubby Earle Bruce was the best coach in the history of ISU football...btw my first ISU football game was Oct 1962 at Lincoln NE where Dave Hoppmann and Tom Vaughn took on the great Bob Brown and Co!!
Who else besides Earle Bruce has gone over to Iowa City and beat the hoks ...here it comes...31-0! and yes I was at the game also!
GO CYCLONES
Those games are close for the other teams too.
They do CampbellBall better than ISU. They win 4 out of 5 times.
Now what?
