Top "What could have Been" if
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Do tell ... I'm not aware of that one. You have me curious.
(I assume he was known as "Pre-Med J" at the time...)
What if we chose the up and coming Coach K instead of a seasoned vet in Johnny Orr...
And been stomped BOTH times! Don't get me wrong, as it would have been better to play in the Big Xii Championship Game in back to back years rather than losing nut-cup games to Mizzou and @ KU....but OU in 2004 and Texas in 2005 would have MUD-HOLED Iowa State like they did to Colorado.
What if Glen Rice's coach wasn't a jackass and told Rice to wait and commit and instead of signing with Iowa State like he was leaning he decided to stay home and go to Michigan.
Earl Bruce leaving Iowa State for Ohio State was the worse thing to ever happen to Iowa State football. It would have been great to see a decade of Bruce vs. Fry in the '80s in the Cy-Hawk series. Instead, ISU made a bad hire and went down hill from there for 2 decades.
Not a ton here, but does mention his recruiting visit, Bill Cain thinking we could have gotten him and that Ames comes up in Dr J’s autobiography:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/cyclon...octor-almost-begins-his-practice-in-ames/amp/
To this day, I refuse to think UT would've beat ISU by anything close to 70-3. Texas was on another plane entirely, for sure, but our defense would not have allowed 10 TDs, and the offense was competent enough to score a touchdown of two.
Perhaps 38-10, 42-14, something like that.
What if Bruce VanDeVelde actually did his job instead of having a fake moniker on message boards and posted all the time. HINT: It wouldn't have mattered because he was a ******* idiot, but he WAS a regular asswipe on ISU boards while he was the AD.
What if Iowa State had held on to beat UCLA in '97 Sweet 16?
(Yet another what-if loss involving a dubious non-call/wrong call).
Does ISU knock off Minnesota in Elite 8 game? (If not, at least we'd have the chance).
(Yet another what-if loss involving a dubious non-call/wrong call).
Does ISU knock off Minnesota in Elite 8 game? (If not, at least we'd have the chance).
What if someone had noticed the hidden talent on the Iowa State football coaching staff, and promoted an assistant coach named Jimmy Johnson to head coach?
I think this get’s overlooked a lot. That team was better than that Minnesota team, for sure, and we matched up really well against the Arizona team that eventually won it all that year.
The timing could not have been worse. Bruce was poised to break through his previous 8-4 mark and take it to he next level in '79. Instead he splits and Hayden takes over in Iowa City in '79 and takes off.
What if we had hired John Cooper or Bill Snyder (both actively campaigned for the job) instead of Donnie Duncan and Jim Criner, respectively?
What if Loren Meyer does not get hit by a train? That team would have been super good. I think what hurt them there senior year was a coaching change and a whole different coaching philosophy by Floyd. They played three years in an up and down system, then switched totally to a system that was nothing what they were used to doing.
Yeah the B12 North and South were fairly even to start out with and actually the North was better but during the latter stages starting in about '04 with Nebraska, CU, and KSU not being very good and OU and Texas back to form it was night and day.
Yes they did. It was in KC. I watched the men's game vs MSU then attended the women's game at Municipal. Two great seasons ended on the same day in heartbreaks.
A PSU player picked up a rebound off the floor and layed it in the last second to win the game.
