Next year will be more of the same I am afraid. Best hope is Netten, Bundrage, Lazard. No one on defense. That is about it. I thought we had improved team speed. It just does not translate to the field.
Pollard and blame
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Next year will be more of the same I am afraid. Best hope is Netten, Bundrage, Lazard. No one on defense. That is about it. I thought we had improved team speed. It just does not translate to the field.
I really doubt this is true.
91 3-8
92 4-7
93 3-8
94 0-10-1
95 3-8
96 2-9
97 1-10
98 3-8
99 4-7
total 23-75-1
So the first random 9 year period I totaled was far far worse, and in this same time frame, our strength of schedule was generally in the 50's+. Our 9-3 year in 2000 our strength of schedule was around 70. Dan was 56-85 (39%) overall with a much easier schedule. After 1.5 terrible years Rhoads is 29-41 (41%). Anyone who thinks things are worse then they have ever been doesn't have much perspective.
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I'm not as down on the talent level as a lot of people. There are good players on this roster. I think these guys can line up and compete on a more consistent basis than what we have seen. That's been the most disappointing thing about this season. I feel bad for the seniors.
Those making the claims that this is the worst we have ever been were obviously in a Coma during the '90's. We absolutely sucked.
3 Wins during a season would be considered a success during that decade.
Yes, I don't know what the Hell they are thinking. ISU has been way worse than the last two years on several occasions. This year's record is bad, but at least you can point to a couple of the losses that ISU should have been able to hold on to. Back in the 90's ISU was everyones whipping dog.
CPR has certainly made some major blunders in assistant hires and recruiting, but it feels like he is headed in the right direction now with Mangino. I still think he needs to get Wally to retire and bring in some new blood there, but you can only make so many coaching changes in a year, unless you fire the head coach and start over. I for one am not ready for the complete train wreck that would be.
To clarify, JP offered an extension if Gene stayed, that did not happen, so there was no extension.
I cannot disagree as I stole the numbers and corresponding statements in the OP from a web site where the owner was trying to make a point of disparaging JP to deflect blame away from CPR. I'm walking a fine line here so will have to leave it at that.
Op you say most don't think pollard is to blame. Then stat reasons why one would blame pollard and then say you don't blame pollard. I don't see it as pollards fault either. I just don't get the post. Pollard is the leader so has to have some blame, but I agree with every hire he has ever made at the time of the hire.
Agree with this. I'm more disappointed in our preparation to handle certain game situations we've faced as well as a couple of games in general.
Don't know how much of it is talent gap when we can't beat UNI or NDSU, but we can beat Iowa.
Iowa would not beat last year's early season UNI or this year's NDSU. Iowa is crap too.
What's the evidence of this? Iowa was better last than this year and they took care of UNI just fine this year. Plus Mark Farley bends over for Iowa and doesn't want the UNI fanbase mad at him for beating their true number 1 team in their hearts.
I can't believe UNI had more talent than us last year or any year (with the exception of David Johnson, which is our own fault). I just don't think the team looked mentally prepared to play NDSU or Oklahoma this year. And as far as game situations, we looked totally unprepared to handle the loss of Farniok, which has happened before. We also looked unprepared to handle 3rd or 4th and 1 situations, running the ball from the shotgun with Farniok and then a sneak from behind center without Farniok. The defense looked completely unprepared to handle a prevent situation like the last 22 seconds of the Texas game. Some might question using a d-back to catch a pass in a fake punt situation. There are things that haven't come together that have cost us winnable games, and at ISU we can't afford to blow winnable games. I admit it's going to take a rare coach and staff that is so sharp that it just rarely makes mistakes in recruiting (especially in state) or game situations to win at ISU. I don't think CPR has shown that yet and maybe things will improve and he can bounce back next year.
I think the most impressive part of this post was that you didn't have to link a rwnj article that thinks for you.
I was in Cedar Rapids last summer from out of state, and for whatever reason it felt like there was a lot more ISU gear being worn around than I recall...I really think the product of ISU has grown considerably, and Pollard has helped with that.
(a popular head basketball coach helps too I suppose....)
Not really. Just looks that way sometimes. They should have beaten them once by now in their history.
