Majority of fans seem to have forgotten CMC's own quote about .500 teams. Given this season will be at best .500 (and that is very unlikely at this point), we will have 3 out of the last 4 yrs basically at .500 (7-6 and 6-7 considered .500) or worse. That is not a picture of a 'building program', it is a picture of a stalled program.
Matt Campbell postgame quote
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Jamie caved to fan pressure. Iowa State President got involved. Bottom line. Pollard was pushed to go with Prohm. It was evident he sucked and couldn’t coach. Players won despite Prohm. But underachieved IMO. Fans should not make decisions.
I think that's why everyone is so frustrated. If our offense was just bad instead of pathetic the season looks a lot different. Same goes for special teams. We've tried as hard as we can to lose and we're still keeping games close.
One thing I was hoping for in Campbell's post game presser was that the coaches were continuing to develop the other wide receivers besides X and that it was very important that they continue to do so.
True… I think they will end up 6-6. If we had Northwestern, Rutgers, Nebraska, etc. in our conference, that would help.
Was Gilbert rattled?
I haven't seen Campbell, Gilbert or anyone with inside the team say Gilbert was rattled.
He misses 3 FG's in one game. Other than KU he is 8-8 in ISU's other 5 games and 5-5 going into the KU game.
So in the moment, why wouldn't Campbell be confident Gilbert makes the game tying FG? A kicker going 1-3, doesn't automatically mean he's going to miss the next one.
It's more a matter of knowing that you are in these games and finding ways to get over the hump.
So Pollard was forced into hiring Prohm but he didnt want him. Then he proceeded to give him a contract extension after an epic collapse mid season, support him in the media multiple times including the announcement of his firing, and wait a season too long to fire him when it was clear he wasnt the dude for years before that?
What?
I felt like you were looking for more than just 'scoring more points than the opponent', but it appears I gave you too much credit. I will explain it better so you can understand.
In football, touchdowns are worth more points than field goals (6 vs 3). After the touchdown is scored, you can either kick the extra point which is worth 1 point, or go for a 2 point conversion which is obviously worth 2 points. Most times the team will just kick the extra point.
Now, while getting points from a field goal is sometimes nice, generally the goal is to score as many points as you can, which is why a touchdown is the preferred choice of the offense. The more points you score, the chances of winning are improved. In the case of the last two games, we only scored 1 touchdown which unfortunately was not enough to win either game. This may be a controversial statement, but I think if we had scored more touchdowns in each of these games, we probably would have won both. I hope this better explains my position.
Well, he had just missed two (uncharacteristically, as you say) -- and the last one was off by the broad side of a barn.
Moreover, as others have stated a made field goal doesn't win the game anyway. But that's a different point.
I don’t really care either way but the fact that he’s talking about what happened last week and specifically something that happened off the field LAST WEEK is what is troubling to me. Total deflection on losing in embarrassing fashion to KSU. Blame anything but the fans please.
2 doinks off the same post that don’t go through + the absolute amateur attempt on the third = rattled. No getting around that.
I get what Campbell was doing, he was taking a chance that if he makes the last one the confidence is through the roof and he thinks he has his FG situation sured up going forward for the rest of the season.
I don’t think he calculated the downside risk of shitting away a winnable game against a ranked opponent being lost on the kicking game causes a spiral out of control leading to a potential multi-game losing streak.
I don’t have much of an issue with CMC giving a little jab to those fans that **** on Gilbert. I do have an issue with when he decided to give the jab.
It was pure deflecting and obviously he got caught up in his own emotions. I’m sure he’s reflected and realized his mistake. There were much better ways to praise Gilbert in that moment.
It was pure deflecting and obviously he got caught up in his own emotions. I’m sure he’s reflected and realized his mistake. There were much better ways to praise Gilbert in that moment.
If Campbell goes for it on 4th down that doesn't win the game either. If we make it on 4th, it just means the FG to tie the game is closer.
But since he was rattled, guess your saying even kicking a closer FG then wasn't an option.
Being a Monday morning QB is great because there are right & wrong decisions.
Campbell's decision wasn't wrong just because the outcome was bad for ISU.
I wonder what the analytics guys would say the right move was?
