*** Official Iowa State Season Thread ***
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Agree. Even hearing Dickie V today go off on ADs letting coaches go during this Covid season made some good points, but you can’t go winless in conference, get pounded at Hilton, getting out coached and schemed in tight spots, get run by Iowa two years in a row and miss on entire recruiting classes...it’s clearly time.
Depending on how you count it:
We've lost 19 straight games to conference foes. 18 of those in the regular season.
If we lose out this year we will have lost 23 straight games to conference foes, 21 in the regular season.
If you only count the regular season games, we tie the record if we lose out. If you count the conference tournament games, we tie the record losing the next 2 and surpass it when we lose to KSU.
CycloneErik
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What's so frustrating is the lack of offensive execution. They don't run any set plays. Settle for more jumpers than any team I've ever seen.
Thanks. This proves my point. Some people can't see how small things within a game can change the outcome. Say that point we can go up by 3 more or give them 3, possible 6 point swing. It is a big deal and INEXCUSIBLE. You and those like you can go on pulling in the coach who isn't any more happy about this season than you are. He makes a lot of money to take that kind of heat. But, you and the others like you need to shut your ******* mouths about the players who put it in the line and have gotten very little in return for their effort. Talking **** about your team's players does not make you a fan. It just makes you a piece of ****.
CycloneErik
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They've gotten what their efforts earned. This record is no accident.
And I won't be pulling on anyone, whatever that means. Sure I'm flattered, maybe even a little curious, but the answer is no.
Yeah, offensive scheme and effectiveness is certainty lacking, but lack of talent is even more. Outside of Bolton and JCL...who can get their own high percentage shot? Harris has moments, but jab step 3 pointers are low percentage. We are too easy to guard at 4 of the positions, no mismatches. We lack true bucket getters and have since 2018.
Spell check must have caught you sometime in your life.
Did their effort earn that horrendous call? That is all I asked. Yes, theoretically, they. May have not win even if that call goes the right way, but will never know. And for what it's worth that was jackson putting in a lot of effort to get that terrible call. I'm not going to let that go unnoticed.
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CycloneErik
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Their effort earned their record. Was that not clear enough?
It's OK. Blaming refs is like breathing for you. Someday, you'll see that it just doesn't matter for a team this bad.
Agree. Just hope JP doesn't play the covid card. Steve has shown he's not the guy long before this season. The winless streak just makes it more obvious than what JP unfortunately would like to admit.
Prohm drew up one play in the past 3 years and was tonight...down 2 and was a 3 ball for a streaky shooter at best
I'm not Steve you idiot and I'm not saying he should be retained. It is obvious that we don't presently have a coach that has the capability to produce a winning program. Everyone can see that. But where I draw the line is publically shitting all over the representatives of your school's team. These are young men and women, who I am fairly sure aren't trying to purposefully ruin your life through their lack of skill or execution. For the most part, they are playing their hearts out trying to win for themselves, their team, their school and the fans. And this is the thanks they get from some of us. I'm not sure how many of you who speak like this about these young people are parents, but if you are, shame on you. If you are not of that age yet or have not had kids, please grow up before you consider procreating.
Even if Jamie wanted to play the covid card to keep Steve, i think the way this season has been so uniquely bad kind of takes it out of his hands. Its one thing to have a bad season. Its another entirely to do it while being this bad where we are breaking records for how bad this season is every other night.
It also doesnt help that the record of the 3 prior years doesnt exactly sell hope for a 'return to normal after covid' if you wanted to play that card. When the 3 prior years were 10th, 5th, 9th, no one is going to be satisfied with "hey, give it another year and we'll be back where we were". Where we were pre-covid sucked.
And saying that officials blowing major calls at important points in the game is nothing is like breathing for you. And....
CycloneErik
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He'd have to find a unique way to spin chasing those consecutive loss records as a positive, or manage to make "can we run the table again" some sort of draw. I can't imagine that works.
But he does hate firing coaches, and he's cheap, so who knows? Maybe something about "real Cyclones don't bail on a struggling program" character pitch like some posters enjoy so much.
CycloneErik
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It's true. I breathlessly await your ref-blaming every game. It's as predictable as our offense.
