Blowout loss to Baylor, Rhoads fired?

And the only appropriate response to that is:

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Is he throwing up a Christmas tree?
 
Word has it that the other Big 12 coaches(except KU) are currently meeting in a back room of a casino in Miami, OK. They are shuffling some $ around to see which 2 teams take one for the conference and help CPR retain his position. Stoops was overheard saying "We can't afford to lose him, he makes us all look so much better and it's like an extra bye week." Straight from my ex sisters old boyfriend, who picks up cig butts in the parking lot.:rolleyes:
 
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I don't think it's quite there yet. The end of Walden ~ SMU death penalty - we went 22 years between bowl games, SMU 25.

I do think it was telling that the NCAA didn't want to give Penn State the death penalty... because they didn't want them to suffer like Iowa State fans have.

Last 3 years of Walden = 7 wins
Last 3 years of Rhoads (if we don't win anymore) = 7 wins
 
No because Baylor i expected to win by a basketball score. After the season concludes though I foresee a change. Even if the Clones beat KSU and WVU, and get to four wins. I believe Pres. Leath will be dead set on hiring a new head FB coach unless the Clones somehow win three more to get to five wins. I also foresee Pres. Leath looking over JP's shoulder during the whole hiring process.
 
I think we might win one more game, and that will be sold like gold.

I know most people don't believe we are winning any more games. But even giving us a 15% chance to win in each of these 4 games - KSU, Texas, OSU and WV means there is approximately a 50% chance we win at least one of those games.
 
Baylor could win 100-0 and JP wouldn't fire him - Rhoads is "his guy". It will take Leath and/or donors making the decision for Pollard, and if that happens, it won't be until the end of the season - and if it comes to that Pollard may be going out the door with him.

I think its even money that both JP and PR don't come back next year if we LOSE OUT the rest of the season
 
You can't fire a guy for his team getting blown out by the second ranked team in the country on the road. There have been way more than enough other reasons to fire him before this. Really disappointed in the total lack of urgency by CPR and his stall. We have seen it for 1 quarter this year.
 
He is coming back. We all feel it. He does not look like a desparate man now like last year. He is coming back. 50 point blowout loss to nation's number one team will not move the needle. JP is really cheap.
 
I think we might win one more game, and that will be sold like gold.

I know most people don't believe we are winning any more games. But even giving us a 15% chance to win in each of these 4 games - KSU, Texas, OSU and WV means there is approximately a 50% chance we win at least one of those games.
I agree. I think we get a McDermott type win at the end of a crappy season when he won at #5 Kansas State. Unlike that though, it won't even be to a ranked team, but it will be sold like gold.
 
except there will be a lot of people still going to games next year after they get sold on optimism. Pretty confident CPR will be here next year.

Iowa State where mediocrity equals success.
 
I think we might win one more game, and that will be sold like gold.

I know most people don't believe we are winning any more games. But even giving us a 15% chance to win in each of these 4 games - KSU, Texas, OSU and WV means there is approximately a 50% chance we win at least one of those games.

Umm. You can't add those odds together to get a greater probability.
 
I think you are understating how bad it was at the end of the Walden era. We didn't have a full complement of scholarship players, and the players that we had would have been hard pressed to fill a IAA roster. We had Troy Davis... riding the bench and not on the field. The field was freaking 20 year old astroturf that made as many tackles against our players as the defense did. The facilities were basically unchanged since the 70's at that point and showed it.

Everything you say is true. Yet we continue to lose, even with better facilities and players. That is on the coaches and administration.

There is still no hope to win unless we are playing the bottom tier teams, and even then there is a very real chance we will lose. Feels an awful lot like the gameday experience in 1994.
 
Pollard is cheap because Cyclone fans are cheap. If we had a big number of donors lined up, this wouldn't be an issue.

People that complain about CPR's salary being so high better realize he generally finishes in the same spot in both W-L and pay.
 
Everything you say is true. Yet we continue to lose, even with better facilities and players. That is on the coaches and administration.

There is still no hope to win unless we are playing the bottom tier teams, and even then there is a very real chance we will lose. Feels an awful lot like the gameday experience in 1994.

The outcome is the same, but the gameday experience is not. Not remotely.
 
Pollard is cheap because Cyclone fans are cheap. If we had a big number of donors lined up, this wouldn't be an issue.

People that complain about CPR's salary being so high better realize he generally finishes in the same spot in both W-L and pay.

On the one hand, you get what you pay for.

On the other, for someone that is allegedly so passionate about Iowa State, you would think that what he is making should not have much of a bearing on his production. At the end of the day, those two things actually have no correlation anymore when its become painfully obvious that guy flat out can't coach.