I said before, I think handing Mess the job was a huge mistake. I say that in retrospect, where it is easy to say. You cann't fire him now, it is too late, if a change was going to take place it needed to be done last year. I think reasonable peopel can disagree on how to fix it. My guess is, like most things, it is a combination of things. Poor blocking, QB holdinng the ball too long, receivers not getting open, and poor play calling and gameplanning.
However, it is clear, and no fair minded person can disagree at this point, ISU is NOT sccoring enough points on offense. This is irrefutable. Scoring 20 points is NOT enough in this conference. Not even close. No person can sit here and say the offenses performance has been acceptabe in the last year. An offense with a pulse gets us wins vs WV, K State and Texas Tech forr sure last year and UNI this year. That is 4 wins in a little over a year. It needs to be fixed and it needs too be fixed, or at least improved, yesterday.
I don't know what to do, but we have people making a ton of money, that sure as hell need to figure it out, and figure it out fast. We wasted a season of two NFL linebackers on defense because we can't figure out how to score more than 20 points.