*** Official Ohio vs IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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If you prevent an opposing player from getting to the LOS, or mess with the ball placement.
I know it's garbage time but i feel like Becht could have cut up field and got the first
- Mar 27, 2006
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This. Doesn't have to play clock related for delay of game to be called
We beat a crap team. Was it nice to beat Iowa? yeah. But I think its fair to expect to beat one of the worst offensive I've ever seen in almost 40 years. It's obviously better than the alternative especially to end the streak and on the road.
As awesome as it was to beat Iowa and as awesome as it is to be up 37-10, people have the right to be frustrated about calling back to back timeouts against Iowa only to get stuffed on 3rd down and two blocked punts, etc. Or blocked PATS or a false start right after calling a time out today with the starting offensive line and then a shanked punt.
The idea that suddenly some of this stuff gets cleaned up by next week? That's not typically how football or life for that matter works. You don't just all of a sudden decide to do something right.
Yes, we are a very young team. Yes, going 3-0 to start the year is absolutely amazing and I am very happy to see that despite what a lot of people thought we aren't just going to fall off a cliff after last year's class graduated. And sure, I'm no Bear Bryant but I do have a background in coaching a tiny bit in college and more in HS even if I was probably a crap one.
This ISN"T, to steal Coaches' phrase, the best version of ourselves out at the stadium today. Which is incredibly encouraging. Just like winning last week - yes, against a bad Iowa team - but not playing great and winning on the road was encouraging. Blowing out Ohio with the multitude of mistakes - mostly mental - is ENCOURAGING . Yes. But we're going into week 4, into league play with a massive step up and some of this stuff has happened in every game. That is not so encouraging (yes, I'm looking at you special teams)
Look at coaches' body language - does he look happy? That's all I'm saying. I'm loving the 3-0 start but we run a serious risk of being 3-1 if we can't get some of this addressed by next Saturday. More of a big picture view.
Now the young defenders have looked good. Silas has been awesome. X of course was X, etc. Reeder looks really good. There's been plenty of good. But if we want to have any chance of doing more than 6-6 or 5-7... simply winning can't be good enough if you have bigger dreams. Its where it starts, duh, obviously. But how you win matters when looking ahead IMO
I know they arent being risky in the second half but the offense has been pretty pathetic since halftime.
Our punting game is a porno ... lots of sucking
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I think out SP Teams performance thus far this year is the worst I have seen by an ISU team in 20 years! My grade for SP Teams today would not be above a C-.
I now downgrade our SP Teams performance to a D. Two shanked punts, one almost blocked, two KO not reaching the end zone, one missed extra point & several Ohio that we’re unacceptably long!
Man - these young kids on defense are exciting and hungry. Really liking them
McLaughlin in on another play.... with Howard Brown forcing the fumble. Love seeing the young guys feast!
He’s the coach, I’m just a guy in the couch. All I care about is a W. A totally comfortable dominating W means I’m just absolutely loving life.
It’s too late to get a ST coach. That’s really the only thing I have to ***** about right now and it’s not going to change this year so we’re YOLOing it.
With what we lost after last year and the streak finally being broken I’m happy as ****. There’s always ******** to nitpick but I’m not going to be “frustrated” about it. I trust the coaches and I trust the players and I know 100% they are out there doing everything they can and effort is not in question. That’s called a foundation, and we haven’t had it since the early-middle Mac years.
I’m going to enjoy the **** out of every win.
To be a fair with true freshman kicker, I don't expect 100% touch backs. I'd just like competent coverage mixed in with the occasional touchback
