I would like to see ISU football in the top half of the league. I think that was a goal for Coach Rhoads when he took over several years ago. To move from the bottom half to the top half of a league is not easy and it can take several years. It takes time to change the culture, implement your system, build recruiting relationships, and develop depth. It can take several years of gradual improvement, but it can happen. I thought that the first four years under Coach Rhoads I saw the gradual improvement I was hoping for. The players gave good effort and there were several major upsets that showed that the team was building confidence. It also seemed that there was improved depth. And then last year happened. Losing to UNI was bad, but how we lost, with UNI controlling the line of scrimage foretold that 2013 would be a tough year. Worse was having Sam Richardson hurt the first game with no experienced depth behind him. It appeared our improved depth was a mirage. ISU recruited 8 jucos last year but only about half of them saw the field this year. Now the reason why I am frustrated is that the last two years the trend has not been that of a team continuing its improvement, but of going the other direction. I feel lie the team has digressed back to where ISU football was when Coach Rhoads took over and that the rebuilding process will start over again for another cycle.
Why I am frustrated.
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I have a prediction that BigXII teams will lose at least 45 games next year and every year after that. You just have to figure out how to distribute those losses. Even if you paid the coaches 1 billions dollars apiece they with still rack up 45 losses.
ISU has not done any of those things under CPR, but they also have had horrible luck with injuries and attrition. At some point in time even the attrition and injuries are not enough to explain the train wreck ISU FB has become. Like not showing up against a team like KU.
Maybe somebody could create a poll on how much longer to retain CPR. We haven't had a CPR poll in the past 2-3 days, possibly longer.
The OP must have been stuck in a glass case of emotion. There weren't 10 threads like this created weeks and weeks before?? I'm sad he's frustrated.
PS- I've just come to the conclusion we will ALWAYS suck and be in the cellar of the Big 12. We are a basketball school, i'll at least embrace that.
PS- I've just come to the conclusion we will ALWAYS suck and be in the cellar of the Big 12. We are a basketball school, i'll at least embrace that.
