I feel really good about the game this weekend. Should feel much better about this game than TCU since TCU destroyed Ok State in Stillwater. I think Oklahoma State is the third maybe fourth best team in the conference playing on the road after a tough loss against their rival. We have a lot of advantages in this game and we may actually be the better overall team here.
COLUMN: Musing on the MBB exhibition, where football is at w/ 3 to go
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For the record, I did not project Iowa State to go winless in South Carolina. I wrote that if they play like they did on Sunday I think that they could. I fully expect this team to improve between now and then.
I was right behind that end zone watching it -- screaming for them to go for it.
You have DM. He has the eye of the tiger. He will fall forward and into the end zone.
Even if not, then trust your defense and play field position.
I wanted them to go for it in that case, but it has nothing to do with showing confidence. It could just as easily be portrayed as a desperation move, and hindsight isn’t logic.
What if we’re hearing what we want to hear? There are past seasons that suggest those two are at best role players. We’ll need more than that.
It's a bigger talent mismatch then a coaching mismatch.
They may be role players but, even so, they should play better than they played.
I think some people may be overreacting a bit to the exhibition game. I read in another thread that Michigan State and North Carolina barely beat their exhibition opponents, and Illinois lost to theirs.
If a few more of our 3's go in, then I think people feel a lot differently. That said, I hope Talley doesn't shoot anymore 3's this year.
If a few more of our 3's go in, then I think people feel a lot differently. That said, I hope Talley doesn't shoot anymore 3's this year.
I'd say because we were down by 10 and needed two scores to tie or take the lead. It's a numbers game and you put points on the board when you can. If we had 2 wins instead of 6 maybe we go for it.
I was just fine kicking the fg and taking the points, besides, the defense held and we got the ball back. If Kempt leads Ryen just a tad on the last series, this is a convo about the great decision to kick the fg and how much CMC trusts the defense.
I honestly am not 100% sure, but were we down by 7 at the sequence pdxclone is referencing?
Down 10 I think because my thought was that we needed to make it a 1 score game and that we could get back down there and get the TD
Yes we were down 7 at that point. You are only a yard away from tying it up. Planning on getting the ball back; it is far easier to get in FG range to win than to drive all the way to the endzone to win. If you don't hit the FG at the end, you still have OT to pick up the win.
I get wanting to get points every time you are in the redzone but you are forcing the offense to have to get a TD on the next possession.
Whose talent is untested? Ours or Mizzou's. We got beat by a team picked to finish #13 in the Big 10. We struggled with a team picked to finished last in their conference in Emporia State.
Missouri lost 87-93 versus Kansas and destroyed them on the boards. ISU will get better as the year goes on but they won't be better by Friday.
It will be a 20+ Loss if Lewis & Lard don't suit up.
