You know, I just find this whole "blame everything on JP" thing absolutely hilarious. Pollard from day one has given the fans pretty much what they want, but yet when things go wrong it's all his fault. 80%+ of the fans wanted McCarney fired as the 2006 season progressed (including Monty), which JP eventually has no choice but to concede to. He then listen to the fans' demands of bringing in a big name coach who will impact recruiting by his name alone, and fans claim that they're okay with that name coach using ISU as a stepping stone because the team should be improved enough by the time he leaves to hire another good coach. No one could have expected a traditional power school would come and hire Chizik from us after posting the worst record in ISU coaching history. So then the fans start whining about how they want to bring in a coach that isn't going to leave us at a lurch because we got burned by that last time, so he brings in Rhoads. But now lots of fans are complaining because it appears that we're not going to get to the magical 6-win window this year
Fans keep whining that we've been rebuilding ever since JP came in and destroyed the football program. Bull ****. This football team has been perpetually rebuilding since the 2002 collapse. The only reason why we "won" divisional titles in 2004 and 2005 is because the Big 12 North might have been the weakest division in college football those years. If those two McCarney-led teams were going up agaisnt the division from the last two years, it's quite likely the 2004 and 2005 teams would be just as bad as the 2007 and 2008 teams have been. No, this team has not been rebuilding since JP fired McCarney, this program has been rebuilding since 2002, back when BVDv, the scourge of the ISU athletic department, was running things. At this point I almost wish 2004 and 2005 didn't happen, because then ISU fans wouldn't be nearly as deluded as they are that things were "oh so rosy" before JP came in and destroyed thngs...
I like your dry and sarcastic sense of humor. You are right, it is a bad thing that ISU won consecutive division titles. In fact, I doubt any Cyclone football teams in the past would have gone to bowl games if they were playing against today's superior competition. I agree that we should be happy with the last two seasons since the football program is right where Jamie told us it would be. I now recognize that I have simply failed to recognize how the football program has actually been improving over the last several years. Yes, I see now that JP has given us exactly what we wanted. This is a Cyclone state!!