Liberty Bowl postgame thread
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Honestly. Nothing public right now. I’ve said in other posts tonight and I’ll say it again. Campbell has gotten us to the most constant level of success in program history, and for that I’m very thankful. However, AD and him need to have an honest conversation about continuing to grow as a program. No I’m not saying conference title contender every year. I’m saying a reliable P5 program that doesn’t struggle to beat G5 programs most years, a program that’s has an average OL most years instead of a grade D or F line, a program that is not easily dismissed from future football realignment events that could lead us to no longer being part of the top tier level of competition.
How about you? What do you think?
I expect P5 teams to beat G5 teams.
Player development has been average at best under Campbell.
I don't disagree but we rushed five on the first play and got beat deep.
A good percentage of sports fans are crazy. Now we're taking even more money out of fans pockets to pay for players (when the NCAA and the schools should be paying them), and Dabo makes I don't even know how many millions of dollars? Yes, when you lose the crazies are going to come at you. I'll never go after a coach or player, but I can't control what crazy people do. If he doesn't like it he doesn't have to coach and make millions. The players can stop playing and go get a real job. I don't feel for him or the players at all.
Why did my thread about getting bullied by mid major teams get closed?
This game actually reminded me of the way the basketball season ended back in March; a surprising and disappointing result bringing an unfortunate end to an otherwise pretty good season from a team that maybe wasn't quite as good as its record indicated.
Both teams got down really big really quickly, only to make a bit of a comeback that came up short in the end to what were perceived as inferior teams. H*ll, getting 0 rushing yards might be the equivalent of shooting whatever atrocious percentage we shot during that game.
And, while I like both TJ and Campbell, they both got outcoached. It's hard to believe that this defense, knowing that both Verdon and TJ were both out, came out as unprepared as they did. Really disappointing to see.
Both teams got down really big really quickly, only to make a bit of a comeback that came up short in the end to what were perceived as inferior teams. H*ll, getting 0 rushing yards might be the equivalent of shooting whatever atrocious percentage we shot during that game.
And, while I like both TJ and Campbell, they both got outcoached. It's hard to believe that this defense, knowing that both Verdon and TJ were both out, came out as unprepared as they did. Really disappointing to see.
Sama tip toed around like a lame ballerina. May not have been much for running lanes but he hit nothing aggressively or at full speed. Different story when the d is on ice and also forced to tip toe.
Laugh all you want at the Hawkeyes. They may not have put up many yards or many offensive points, but no way they lose to this Memphis team. No way.
As soon as I saw the bowl and opponent, it was an immediate nope for me. Memphis isn't enough draw on its own, and throw in that it's vs a home team and possibly bad weather? Nope and nope.
Yeah - I guess having 12 former Iowa State players currently in the nfl shows player development isn’t very good. The OL development could use improvement, but let’s give Clanton more than one season to work his magic
I had a Hawkeye friend say Campbell reminds him of Fran.. I see some obvious reasons that is not true but he made some interesting points
Seems pretty weak to me, not about getting beat, or about having 0 yds rushing, but about never accepting a bowl bid against a G5 team again.
We win this game, I can see this argument. A G5 team was ready, Memphis, and they were the better team tonight. Never playing them or anyone like them again sounds kind of whiney.
I am classified as a die hard. I’ve missed one home game in 20 years. I’ve been to numerous away games and haven’t missed a bowl game since I graduated college in 2009.
Today convinced me that bowl games don’t matter to our coaching staff. Maybe they are right but I spend a whole lot of money for an exhibition that we aren’t ready for.
Today convinced me that bowl games don’t matter to our coaching staff. Maybe they are right but I spend a whole lot of money for an exhibition that we aren’t ready for.
I say go all out for basketball. Try to be Kansas, not Alabama. We can't afford to be consistently decent in football anymore. If we can squeeze out a bowl game and an 8 win season every couple of years I'd be ok with that. If we get the the Dance every year, and contend in the Big 12 every year, we won't get left out of anything. College basketball makes too much money.
Oh, and if they eventually go to a 32 team pro league or whatever, we were never gonna be invited to that anyway.
Not sure.
I've thought ISU was not very fundamentally sound for a long time among other things that held back from being better...but the overall winning record is hard to argue against. Things averaged out.
I don't see much changing soon so a decent/average team is fine by me.
