Pop-Tarts Day After Review

[HFCS]

I snagged a couple of boxes!
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My store didn't have Rocco's choice like you bought so I got my childhood "go to" frosted strawberry today.

First time I bought them in maybe 25 years at least. The marketing definitely works at least on the micro level of fans whose team won the game.

 

[HFCS]

 

[CySmurf]

Where did you find the those?

Mt Vernon Road Hy Vee Cedar Rapids.

 

[CascadeClone]

I agree on Alston and Green. They should have seen more targets. Still, I feel better about our 2025 WRs today than I did before the game. Even if they move Ngoyi to DB, they still have Alston, Green, Eskildsen, Overby, Sowell, Daniel Jackson, Brown, Townsend, Black. That’s still a clear step back from Higgins and Noel, but not as big of a step as I was fearing.

Recievers are the least important position on offense.

Looking back, i will say the o line play was encouraging. That Miami d line was their absolute strength, and has some dudes. And our guys more than held their own. Maybe year 3 of Clanton they finally have that dominant OL we have all been longing for.

 

[CycloneVet]

After review, I think Jaylin Noel should have been Co-MVP. Maybe not in the traditional way the media makes the selection but in the way Cyclone fans that pay attention know who was money in this game. He could have sat out, he had a 100 yard game, made a fantastic key catch on the sideline on the winning drive and, most importantly, said from day one he was playing in the game to go out the right way. If he hadn’t set the tone and then followed through by backing up his talk, I question if we win. He showed a lot of quality in his final game and is my MVP.

A situation like this could help Jaylin with the draft or landing as a UFA. He played the game, balled out in the game, and he wasn’t injured. Id expect teams when drafting in the late rounds would appreciate that type of leadership character in a player

 

[jmb]

I quickly listened through a couple Canes postgame reaction podcasts. They basically said the same things: they win if Cam plays the whole game, fire their DC, they need to get a QB in the portal. Twice in one of them that I caught they called us Ohio St lol. Lots of weird “poor us”, victim mentality kind of stuff exists in their fanbase that I just do not understand at all.

We are the biggest definition of "poor us" as a fan base. Just sayin

 

[MeanDean]

We are the biggest definition of "poor us" as a fan base. Just sayin

But in our case, we have earned it. Both poor as in $$$ from rich benefactors and poor as in past performance.

The truly inexplicably poor officiating in our past haunts us. It may not be worse than other have-not schools have experienced; but it seems like it because of the echo chamber effect of this site.

 

[CoachHines3]

i just ate a pop tart for victory monday and now i feel like complete sh*t

 

[madguy30]

That’s credit to Andy Reid and the Chiefs. Works for them and it’s a copycat league

College is copycat of the NFL?

And college coaches think they can run it without Chiefs/NFL level players?

 

[acoustimac]

I agree on Alston and Green. They should have seen more targets. Still, I feel better about our 2025 WRs today than I did before the game. Even if they move Ngoyi to DB, they still have Alston, Green, Eskildsen, Overby, Sowell, Daniel Jackson, Brown, Townsend, Black. That’s still a clear step back from Higgins and Noel, but not as big of a step as I was fearing.

Was thinking the same thing this morning. So good to see other receivers step up and make the machine go like no one was missing.

 

[Cycsk]

I guess you all can call me dumb along with @andybernard because I too (along with just about everyone I know) were screaming for more run plays at the end of the game, due to the clock situation. Especially from the 4 yd line...

Both teams seemed to pass the ball too much at crucial points in the game. For much of the second half, our best defense was Miami's passing game! I couldn't believe that they kept passing, even though they were gaining something like 6-8 yards per carry. Their running back would stand there, push forward for a few yards, then get carried for more. We really had trouble stopping it unless they did it for us by calling a pass play.

 

[Cycsk]

Any cool merch people have found? Found some official stuff and it was pretty meh

There was a guy near us in the parking lot with a table selling t-shirts with "all the names of the all the players in the game" on them. He didn't seem to be selling very many. I didn't have the heart to ask him if it was edited for the opt-outs and included the guys who redshirted.

 

[Raiders70]

I guess you all can call me dumb along with @andybernard because I too (along with just about everyone I know) were screaming for more run plays at the end of the game, due to the clock situation. Especially from the 4 yd line...

Not sure what is so controversial about bleeding the clock at the end of the game so the opposing team won't have enough time to score after you score. If Cam Ward was still playing maybe our play calling would have had the additional goal of scoring AND running more time off the clock.

 

[CascadeClone]

i just ate a pop tart for victory monday and now i feel like complete sh*t

Yeah, those aren't actually food. Mostly just quick-set cement powder, glysophate, and a non-nutritive cereal varnish.

 

[CascadeClone]

Both teams seemed to pass the ball too much at crucial points in the game. For much of the second half, our best defense was Miami's passing game! I couldn't believe that they kept passing, even though they were gaining something like 6-8 yards per carry. Their running back would stand there, push forward for a few yards, then get carried for more. We really had trouble stopping it unless they did it for us by calling a pass play.

Cam Ward or not, if they had just run it every single time... they win the game imho. That was an enormous error on their part.

 

[rosshm16]

After review, I think Jaylin Noel should have been Co-MVP. Maybe not in the traditional way the media makes the selection but in the way Cyclone fans that pay attention know who was money in this game. He could have sat out, he had a 100 yard game, made a fantastic key catch on the sideline on the winning drive and, most importantly, said from day one he was playing in the game to go out the right way. If he hadn’t set the tone and then followed through by backing up his talk, I question if we win. He showed a lot of quality in his final game and is my MVP.

Jaylin was already really high on my "favorite Cyclones" list but he jumped up a chunk by simply playing in this game.

 

[swiacy]

See. Tone here is fine. Balanced and measured, if not inaccurate.

Like me right now. I’m being pedantic.

I think you fall somewhere between pedantic or didactic actually which is annoying.

 

[rosshm16]

The criticism of @andybernard's point is bizarre to me. Spending 2/3rds of the plays from the 4-yard line with 2:00 left throwing passes and running sweeps is questionable playcalling regardless of the fact that we eventually scored.

 

[MJ271]

On the end-of-game play calling...

I'll just say that if Campbell/Mouser had done nothing but run the ball up the middle starting at the 1st and goal from the 4 and run the clock down and had not scored, the outrage here that they weren't more aggressive would be incredible (maybe from the same people complaining now, maybe not, I don't know).

I'll allow that maybe they should have run different plays once it was 1st and goal from the 2. But from the 4 yard line, I strongly think the correct decision is to run whatever plays you are most confident in resulting in a TD. I don't know why anyone would think the TD is a given in that situation, especially with the offensive line's inconsistency throughout the year (and even within the game).

 

[madguy30]

The criticism of @andybernard's point is bizarre to me. Spending 2/3rds of the plays from the 4-yard line with 2:00 left throwing passes and running sweeps is questionable playcalling regardless of the fact that we eventually scored.

And they didn't really clarify that originally.

Most including myself think running there was the best option and my perspective has nothing to do with clock; ISU was legit at QB dives to a point where two in a row probably scores the TD.

The question I have is what's the complaint if Noel scores on one of his receptions on that drive or if ISU scores on a run on 1st down on the 1st and goal. Would people still question the staff for not holding up or something?