Colorado game = worst game of CPR era?

[clonomaniac]

I think so. I know we got shut out by Oklahoma earlier this year and that could be the worst showing my this Cyclone team, but I will admit that I haven't watched that game on TV.

I think coaching does not get any worse than the Colorado game. Colorado was playing without their head coach. Interim coaches are NOT that effective in coaching the team to a victory. I don't care if Hawkins' son is out there trying to prove a point by playing his best game in his career - our coaches needed to get this squad ready to bring him down. I will give Paul Rhoads and his coaching staff an absolute "F" in preparing this team for this Boulder showdown.

I am not saying fire any of our coaches by any means. I simply do not see how a coaching staff can deserve a raise after producing such a poor outcome from week 10 to week 11. And, oh by the way the BEST player on the team is out and Austen, IMHO, outperformed our coaching staff. He seemed to be the only one besides a few other players to care about bowling.

Its sad that we wont go bowling after beating a ranked Texas team. Missouri is a solid team - plus we play with Tiller who is far worse than I had imagined. God Help Us.

 

[Al_4_State]

I'm not going to get as pissy and reactionary, but yes, this was the worst game of the Rhoads era. Not even close, IMHO.

 

[CycloneErik]

I don't know what other game would compare to it. At least Saturday's over now.

 

[dtclones]

Every coaching staff has letdowns from time to time. It's going to happen.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Clearly. Letdowns are a part of growing a program, and while it sucks, this beatdown at Colorado is part of the growing process. I hate what happened on Saturday, it's the first time in a long time watching Cyclone football made me sick. But if CPR and the rest of the team learn and grow from this massacre, then, in the long run, it will have been worth it.

 

[UNIGuy4Cy]

Never has a Paul Rhoads coached team came out as unprepared and unemotional against a team with similar talent. Outcoached and outplayed. CPR is all about passion, if he can bring that 12 games a season and not half the season, this team will be good going forward. We need to remember this is only his second year as a head coach.

 

[NobodyBeatsCy]

Always a disappointment to lose to an inferior team. It is magnified because bowl eligibility was on the line. A bad loss indeed, but let's not call this an "era" just quite yet.

 

[ISUCyclone06]

I wouldn't take bowling out of the question. We have one game left, a home game at that. Senior night in whats going to be a cold windy night which evens out the competition. Tiller is still a D1 quarterback and manages a game just fine. Things will have to go our way but we've seen it before.

Too answer the question this was a game we were suppose to win and didn't that is a first under CPR, he will be out to prove something Saturday.

 

[RayShimley]

Yes it was the worst. I think this loss is much worse than both the Utah and OU game because we were FAVORED for once. Just when we are on the verge of getting some respect, we **** it down our leg. Our only hope is that it seems like Rhoads' teams have bounced back strong after particularly demoralizing losses. Mizzou has been shakey on the road all season and we have been very strong at home (other than the Utah game). I'm going to table my meltdown for now and hope Rhoads gives me a reason to forget the CU game this Saturday.

 

[jbhtexas]

I'd wait and see how Utah finishes out before making that call. Giving up 68 points at home to a MWC team has got to put that game strong in the running. If Utah is a BCS bowl team that's one thing. Utah's last two games are not gimme's. If it turns out that ISU gave up 68 points to a 3 or 4-loss team, I think it would indicate that there were some major problems that day.

 

[NobodyBeatsCy]

I wouldn't take bowling out of the question. We have one game left, a home game at that. Senior night in whats going to be a cold windy night which evens out the competition. Tiller is still a D1 quarterback and manages a game just fine. Things will have to go our way but we've seen it before.

Too answer the question this was a game we were suppose to win and didn't that is a first under CPR, he will be out to prove something Saturday.

The last Missouri game at home 2 years ago was one game left, a home game, Senior night and was a very cold windy night. We were thumped

 

[dtclones]

I'd wait and see how Utah finishes out before making that call. Giving up 68 points at home to a MWC team has got to put that game strong in the running. If Utah is a BCS bowl team that's one thing. If they aren't, I think it would indicate that there were some major problems that day...

Utah is not going to a BCS bowl.

 

[jdoggivjc]

The last Missouri game at home 2 years ago was one game left, a home game, Senior night and was a very cold windy night. We were thumped

We also had a head coach who was already daydreaming about wearing navy and orange while strolling the sidelines of a larger stadium in a warmer climate, all while being "firmly entrenched" on the ISU sideline.

If you believe Cheezydick hadn't mentally checked out of ISU before coaching the Mizzou game, I'd believe you're sorely mistaken.

We may lose Saturday, but it won't be because CPR is "lame-ducking" this game with his heart already at a different location.

 

[CycloneErik]

We also had a head coach who was already daydreaming about wearing navy and orange while strolling the sidelines of a larger stadium in a warmer climate, all while being "firmly entrenched" on the ISU sideline.

If you believe Cheezydick hadn't mentally checked out of ISU before coaching the Mizzou game, I'd believe you're sorely mistaken.

We may lose Saturday, but it won't be because CPR is "lame-ducking" this game with his heart already at a different location.

Good post, but did you really assume that Chizik has a heart?

 

[Arkansas Cyclone]

Yeah, I think you have to label it as his worst so far. Easily the most disappointing game for me this season. I agree with Jdogg though, it's part of the growing process.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Good post, but did you really assume that Chizik has a heart?

Yeah, I actually do think he has a heart. It just never left Auburn - he didn't take it with him when he left to be the DC at Texas, much less HC at ISU.

 

[aeroclone]

This may have been the worst game I have seen from us in 5 or 6 years. I don't remember being this disappointed in an ISU football team since we blew the KU and Mizzou games to finish the season back when the Big 12 North title was on the line. Or perhaps when we gave Baylor their first Big 12 road win ever.

Sure, if we go beat Mizzou that will really take the sting out, but we went out as a favorite in that game, against a winless team with an interim head coach, with bowl eligibility on the line in a season where most of the experts had us with 3 wins and dead last in the league. And we got crushed. We didn't even compete. Sure we had a lead early on, but even at that point we were being outplayed on both sides of the ball. Jake Knott looked like the only guy on the team that even wanted to be playing football that day.

CPR had said before the game it may be the biggest for him so far at ISU, and we came out the flattest we have in years. I could have lived with a loss. We struggle at Boulder, and I thought the team may rally around the new coach. They do have some talent on their sideline. But if we did lose it, I was hoping it was just because they got a couple bounces, or just executed a little better than us, not because our entire team failed to show up.

That showing on Saturday was disgusting, and if this program is truly going to change the culture and turn things around, games like that just can't happen.

 

[ISUCyclone06]

I believe that game 2 years ago ended 28-24 so we were in it and gave ourselves a shot. But this year is different there is more on the line and I believe our players know that... not sure where that was this week but I'm on to Missouri now.

 

[NobodyBeatsCy]

We also had a head coach who was already daydreaming about wearing navy and orange while strolling the sidelines of a larger stadium in a warmer climate, all while being "firmly entrenched" on the ISU sideline.

If you believe Cheezydick hadn't mentally checked out of ISU before coaching the Mizzou game, I'd believe you're sorely mistaken.

We may lose Saturday, but it won't be because CPR is "lame-ducking" this game with his heart already at a different location.

I did not bring Chizik into this or compare him to CPR - you did. I will say that Chizik did not lose the game that night on his own. Maybe factored 10% into it. All I was pointing out was that the previous poster thought those factors helped us. They do not

 

[brother bob]

worst game - possibly

the question I pose to you is: Are you really a fan of Cyclone Football?

I've read post after post of questions/comments during this season by people on this website and they seem to be more and more negative after each loss (understandably so) but for anyone to actually count this team out without giving them a chance on Saturday just blows my mind!

Were you one of those people who back in late September early October who wanted Tiller as the starting QB? Did you expect at the beginning of the season for this team to have a snowball's chance in Austin, TX of beating a texas team or even taking a first place top ten nebby into overtime with a chance to win? Or for the fact that this team actually did this?

Coach Rhoads and his staff have done far more this season than I, or anyone else thought possible with the schedule they had and I believe that this staff will have this team well focused for Saturday nights game with missouri. I count them out - NEVER! Why should you?

Be proud - Be a fan - NEVER GIVE UP!

GO CYCLONES!