He needs to be better than a competent game day coach. You don't beat the big names in this conference by being just competent.
Although Rhoads running back fumbling cost him last year, he beat Texas how many times? (Should have been 3 but for officials). Nebraska at Nebraska with nobody on offense, etc..
Prior to Rhoads ISU never won those games. Never.
I hope Campbell is the real deal. I hope we still see wins over top talented teams or upsets on the rhoad.
Then I hope he can do more than rhoads, by having better recruiters on staff so that we won't see the down years like we have the last two.
I am hoping that's the case.
Rhoads's running back fumbling is a non-issue if he doesn't rely on a chart to tell him what to do, than just doing some quick math and making as few of ball transitions as possible.
Jim Walden beat a much better Nebraska team than Rhoads ever faced. I'll give CPR credit for some really nice wins but those are matched by some of the worst football I've ever seen.
No matter how many wins come next year, I'm sure there's going to be some Rhoads' colored glasses in the mix of acting like the CPR era was stacked in glory.