Stalled? That is Chizik and Rhoads getting 3 wins each year. Elation was becoming bowl eligible once a decade. Maybe
Matt Campbell postgame quote
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Stalled? That is Chizik and Rhoads getting 3 wins each year. Elation was becoming bowl eligible once a decade. Maybe
The Chiz never even got the car started, and Rhoads was clearly in decline from mediocre for a couple of seasons.
I guess I just didn’t realize that people were so disappointed with the last few years.
I have to say, an Iowa State football program that "stalls" at having a winning season with a bowl appearance 80% of the time, has a winning conference record over half of the time, and that has a legitimate chance to compete for a conference title 30-40% of the time, is in a pretty good place, all things considered.
I think that CMC and his staff have been one of the most successful recruiting staffs ISU has ever had (I would even say they are clearly the most successful). That success has moved our recruiting classes from 8th or 9th in the Big 12 on an annual basis up to 4th, 5th or 6th. This is good improvement, and I think it's very unfair to think that this type of recruiting performance should be expected as the norm if we were to replace the coaching staff. Even so, though, recruiting at this level does not really suggest that we should be 9-3 on a regular basis. There will be a few mediocre years where things don't quite pan out as hoped, and a few really good years where things come together great.
With respect to the real issue at hand, the poor offensive performance, what I see is a shortage of speedy playmakers (thank goodness for X and how dependable he has been), combined with an offensive line that is pretty decent at pass protection but just not strong at moving the line of scrimmage in the run game, combined with two consecutive games of trotting out our 3rd and 4th string running backs due to injuries to our top two guys. Not sure how many "elite" OC's would be flourishing in that scenario...certainly I agree that we could and should look a little better than we have, but not by leaps and bounds. And if X holds onto one pass in each game that he normally does (KU in the endzone, KSU on 4th down), we might be 2-1 in the Big 12 and counting our lucky stars that we survived our mediocre play.
So, I am not panicking. I don't think CMC is panicking. I think he is, to a fault, defensive of his players and assistant coaches, and speaks only positively of them all in public -- I consider that a wonderful quality that he has. I don't know what he is like with them all in private, but I'm guessing that he is more direct and demanding in that context...that's the kind of leader I really like and respect. Bottom line for me -- give me as many years with CMC as we can get, while he's human and not perfect, I think he's the best we've ever had, at least in my lifetime (1993 ISU grad).
They absolutely get credit for taking advantage of the opportunities presented to them by that weird season.
However, if you're looking to analyze the overall progress of the program, taking that year at face value will lead to you overvaluing where ISU was at that point in time.
So the next time Rory McIlroy or Scottie Scheffler duck hooks a tee shot, the conclusion is they are rattled?
Nope, their timing is off or they slightly mishit the clubface. Even NFL kickers shank FG's. Doubt they are rattled.
CMC is protective of his players. Unfortunately it seems as social media is full of the negative fans, maybe 5% of fanbases, but 30% of posts. Saying that CMC is deflecting or attempting to divert attention is just nonsense. Politicians may work in that fashion but not CMC.
Maybe stop posting dumb, disingenuous **** then.
Seems like a lot of people look for reasons to be miserable. Especially those who chime in to tell us the Fiesta Bowl win doesn't really count because COVID.
There is no doubt in my mind, ISU could go undefeated next year, make the National Championship game, win by one point over Alabama/Georgia/tOSU and we'd still have people on here saying the game was too close and we need to clean up our game.
Every team in the country had to deal with covid. We handled it better than others; downplaying that year is a lazy argument. Go tell Alabama fans their championship that year doesn't count.
There are clear and frustrating issues with our team, but I don't understand knocking that year by our own fans.
There are clear and frustrating issues with our team, but I don't understand knocking that year by our own fans.
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We would all be thrilled. Perhaps continuing to do the same thing over and over again will eventually produce such a result? Everyone should just be patient, supportive and think positive thoughts.
Not gonna do it. Not gonna look. Dude was my first ignore a while back. I only have 2 or 3 of those.
Some people want to always be miserable. Let em be. Being extremely optimistic is bad but I’d take that over the other.
Fact of the matter is we’ve played extremely poorly on offense for 2.5 straight games against 3 good opponents. Our coaching has been suspect as well. With all that, we probably should’ve won 2 of the 3 games.
You can either think it’ll be more of the same or you can think change will happen and success will come with it. Are we going to win the rest of our games? No. Will we lose the rest? No. If we’re bowl eligible after losing the talent we did, I’ll be happy. Then we can all ***** at each other about how we could’ve played in a better bowl game.
Campbell has generated enough goodwill to dismiss his comment as something born out of frustration.
Of course he's going to want to defend his player. These are his guys. He really seems to genuinely care about them.
Mistakes were made. He'll self-correct.
