Who has ever said that excuses losing to uni. I can kind of forgive ndsu, because they are dynasty at that level and have beaten better teams than us during their run.
We played two bad bowl games with time to prepare. That's also on this staff.
But you have the guys that make up your Jr and Sr classes that are supposed to be your leaders as upper class men, who would not have ever ended up here had we had a leg to stand on with realignment.
Even though the drizzlers mock it now, the Nebraska locker room speech could have been huge for this staff when they went out to recruit that second year, plus they had a bowl win to sell.
Then came the conference shuffle, and the ONLY mentions Iowa State received were that we would lose our spot. I'm sure this site was abuzz with all of that, I should go to the archives to look maybe you should too.
We survive that, miss back to back wins over Nebraska, and a bowl because the holder didn't set his feet on a two point fake xp. But it was exciting at least. The year ended flat because A A got hurt and we had nothing for mizzu.
A few weeks later, Doug Gottlieb breaks A $ M's and mizzu jabbing leaving. And another recruiting season is gone just like that.
Those are body blows schools like Iowa State aren't built to take.
