"They didn't build Rome in a day". JFC with all you chicken little, whoa is me, I gave 10% of my heart to this team so they should so everything they can to make me happy BS. It blows my mind that people still set such unrealistic expectations. This team is not very different from last years team. How many games did we find ourselves in a deficit only to have to rally back and end up winning by 1 score? I know we had 4 games that we won within 1 score. This year we lost 5. All by 1 score. These are the margins the coaching staff talks about.
When it comes to building a dynasty, you are just not going to bring in 20 stud recruits every single year and win year one. You have to start someone. You start small. You START by building a culture. Culture is sustainable. Culture builds that "can-do" "fight till the end" attitude. Once you have that culture and most importantly the confidence that it brings, you start winning games. (We are around this point) When you start winning games then you start bringing in better recruits. Those better recruits develop over a few years and help you start winning even more games. Which brings in even better recruits and so on.
ISU does not have 100 years of legacy with a $100M dollar AD budget to fall back on and help us buy instant success. This is something that has to be built. I'm sorry to break it to you but it can't be built in a day. Think about this, this senior class, the ones that we praise and the ones that have literally given us some of the most exciting and successful football we have ever seen at ISU, were an underappreciated and underrecruited class. The last 5 years, CMC has successfully recruited higher and higher talent. "We'll never be able to replace Lazard/Montgomery/Isheem/etc" but then kids like Buttler/Hall/Freyler show up and show out. That's why we see kids that we love move on as they get pushed out of starting roles by the young talent.
I'm not a confrontational person at all but you have to be pretty ignorant and narcissistic to think that these kids don't deserve our support. How do you think THEY feel? Are your feelings more important than theirs? Sure, I'm disappointed that we didn't make it to the CFP like we all hoped and dreamed we would but to doubt what this team has done for us and the sacrifices they have made...well that's just ******. Have a great day
PS: The coffee hasn't hit yet and I'm in a feisty mood after reading the slander on Purdy last night