CMC channeled his inner Earle Bruce..but somehow worse. Three yards and a cloud of crap.
Campbell clock management
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This. We’ve all seen that same movie over and over by now. 14 points is nothing to teams with an offense, for Iowa State it’s a death sentence.
It makes me furious every year Kirk just sits back and waits for us to make a mistake then coasts the rest of the game. And it works.
I don't know how one measures this...you have to remember that there was almost nothing to get excited about. We have a blocked FG right out of the gate - a "here we go again" moment if ever there was one - give up a FG the drive after, a TD the drive after that, and at that point we all know we're dead in the water because all of our losses look the same, especially against Iowa.
I think the crowd would have been there if we'd shown more signs of life. Going forward, I wonder if people have already disinvested emotionally in the program and crowd intensity may just not be great until they earn it back.
I think they're slow to get the play in and force the lineman to sit in their stance too long. Hard to get a rhythm when you're staring at the coaches waiting for the check instead of the players analyzing the defense for themselves. Not only that we don't force the defense into difficult positions. We threw underneath their umbrella all game, which is what they want. Should be using Noel to flash across the safety from the slot and giving Higgins or Brahmer a shot one on one. We played scared in my opinion. We aren't looking to impose our will or counter scheme with play calling. We look like we're trying to keep the wheels on the cart.
Noel can't catch the ball, so that strategy is a non-starter. Iowa probably wanted us to throw to that guy. It's an incompletion whether he is open or not.
KidSilverhair
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TV showed a couple of crowd shots during that drive where you could tell the fans wanted more urgency. Gesturing, you could read lips, etc. That was pretty telling, to have video of a bunch of fans in the crowd visibly upset at the pace of the offense.
My thought was perhaps they haven't practiced hurry up enough to run it reliably at this point in the season, it is a very young offense and practice time may have been needed for other things. The time it took to get plays in though was frustrating, a first time play caller probably contributed to that. Better to execute than hurry, but some urgency would have been nice. In the end, there was time, just got stopped. Thought the quick run should have been on 3rd down, it was too obvious on 4th.
If they haven't practiced a hurry up/high tempo set then they're over complicating things or really disorganized. That's the kind of thing that should be on the practice schedule.
That many offensive players having the forearm play sheets feels like a Fix It Felix moment and all of the slow roll shifting has for a real long time.
This take is ridiculous. Getting in plays in a timely manner has been a problem ever since Campbell got here. It's a problem early in the season, in the middle of the season, and a problem late. If a big time college coach can't figure out how to, or find it important enough to make sure his offense can get plays in efficiently (for rhythm) or at LEAST make sure they can do it when game and clock situations necessitate, that's a massive problem.
Quit making ******** excuses. Campbell is ******* up and there's no way around it. Yesterday was so egregious even the drunk, old homers were getting riled. Rightfully so.
Not just see but here it. The displeasure of the crowd came through on the telecast more than a few times on the touchdown drive. Even the blue haired slack jaws were getting antsy.
The idea that our coaching staff hasn't even practiced a hurry up/tempo offense is even more of an indictment than not knowing how to manage the clock, not less.
I mentioned this before, but I took a class called Theory of Football taught by the legendary John Gagliardi (St Johns). The guy was a character, funny as hell. Anyway, to this day I remember what he said, when behind in the second half, even by a little bit, do everything you can to lengthen the game. You want to maximize possessions. Conversely, when ahead in the second half, do everything you can to shorten the game. CMC and staff seemingly do not agree with his philosophy.
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Again he's one of the most revered ISU coaches ever so I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean.
There were fans who wanted him fired after three straight 8-win seasons. Out of 11 games. In that era of the Big 8.
Many of us recognize that today there is revenue sharing and that ISU has NEVER had such favorably comparable facilities and stadium.
CMC has shown almost zero growth as a game day coach in almost a decade at ISU. Still no hurry-up, game clock awareness, or preservation of timeouts. Continued below par offensive line play. Simplistic and slow developing plays.
Curious, how much do you need to see before you begin to at least consider it might be time to move on?
I’m pretty confident that we wouldn’t have scored if we went more hurry up. The team was more in need of the confidence of driving the field than more time on the clock.
In a perfect world I would have loved to go faster but long term we will benefit more from what we did.
