10-2 on the year picking ISU games and I haven't watched a single game this year. After the UNI game figured this team would be 6-6 or 7-5 team.
Football Season Postmortem
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Need a new offensive Coordinator for next year.
So what’s everyone thoughts of demoting Tom Manning to a position coach and allowing Matt to make the play calls like last year? Tom did not impress me making play calls at all this season.
We had the best offense in school history. Shut the **** up.
7-5 is historically a good season at ISU.
7-5 feels disappointing right now.
Need to improve on the o-line, special teams, and overall offensive identity/play calling/flow of game.
7-5 feels disappointing right now.
Need to improve on the o-line, special teams, and overall offensive identity/play calling/flow of game.
Purdy's slide makes me question the mindset of this team. That was 'dissapointing' to say the leas .
We realled off 700 yards against ULM. Relax.
Do you think he’s had great play calling all season? If it wasn’t for our talent like Brock, Breece, Charlie and Deshaunte, we’d be viewing Manning’s play calling on par with Messinghams during his time at Iowa State
People VASTLY overrated the senior o line.
There's a reason Montgomery was a tackle breaking machine. He had to break multiple just to get to the line of scrimmage.
I was actually really surprised that people had that high of hope for this season. I figured it would be a transition year while we break in some new running backs and o line. I'm actually really disappointed we didn't see more of the younger players getting reps on the line.
I'll admit I hadn't paid much attention to this forum or other media outlets before the season started. Did some media put those thoughts on people's heads?
The unfortunate truth is if you replace Purdy with even an above average QB our record is probably 5-7 or even 4-8 right now. Maybe worse.
With that said, Out of all the losses this season this was the first time they had no real chance to win.
I don’t think he’s been perfect by any means. He gets way to cute and sometimes can’t get out of his own way. That said it was indisputably the best offense in school history.
People have no idea what a good offense looks like. We had a good offense. Yes there is absolutely room for improvement. That improvement is going to come with players having more experience and a hopefully more talented line. My understanding is the underclass men are better but have been held back by inexperience.
I’m optimistic that we will be even better next year.
Phil Steele looked at all the returning starts and hyped them for a Big XII dark horse because of that. This line had moments, but they were way too inconsistent. False starts all year at the worst possible moments. Offense was good this year but couldn't get out of its own way too many times.
Can't join the Manning bash fest. He isn't the reason the team under achieved. It was a collective effort. Too many weak spots. Hopefully player development fills in those gaps next season. It's good to have an established quarterback, running back, tight ends and decent d linemen and linebackers coming back. Kyle the corner has been one of the most enjoyable players to watch. Hopefully there's more of his type in the two deeps across the entire roster.
Is this a climate change reference? Otherwise, I don't get it.
Disappointing as a one season sample but there was noticeable gains made this year in the program overall. Clean up mistakes with more experience and there are 2-3 more wins
I found the season to be disappointing with all the hubbub surrounding it. Sometimes it seemed that the players were disinterested or not ready for half the game. Just not much fun to watch- there were some great moments, but overall Way too much bad football. Lack of attention to details, fundamentals, poor play calling, not ready to play, etc.
No one should complain about 7-5, Texas and UNI had em beat too and if not for a miracle fumble recovery and offsides, be sitting at 5-7.
I bet it comes out that Purdy played most the year injured.
But him, Hall, our TEs, Shaw, DL, & LBs make for a good core for next year.
But him, Hall, our TEs, Shaw, DL, & LBs make for a good core for next year.
