this thread makes me wish I had the "dumb" button.
*** Official Drake VS #23 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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You are just the worst. A house full of teenaged girls aren’t as emo as you.
You should feel bad for being like this.
Play calling from the start was just plain bad. In those conditions the offense has an advantage and we have superior athletes. For some reason, Campbell forgot that and instead tried to run up the middle 77% of the time. Good thing we don't play again until the end of the month. I'm pretty butt-hurt about this game. Hats off to Drake, though. They came to win.
I wonder if anyone on the team(players and coaches) learned anything today? Also, it’s a dood thing that DM came to play today, just like he does every week
Yeah but just like every other offseason, we can talk about how they should be better next season.
I realize this sucked but...
1) We obviously didn't come to play and honestly, pretty much as expected
2) They obviously came to play, pretty much as expected
3) There is zero doubt we have the better athletes and that is why they have P5 scholarships
4) Field conditions took away 99% of the athletic advantage
We couldn't cut, make guys miss, run crisp routes, etc. It became a body on body slop fest where being in position and making tackles were going to win the day.
Kene may have had a couple of KO's returned for TD's if he could cut at all. Montgomery was basically unable to do anything but run forward and try and break tackles. Our speed was completely negated because we were basically playing on ice. It forced eveyone to play at 2/3 speed but for Drake that doesn't change their game as much.
No excuse to have a game that tight but that was far from normal playing conditions. I think we still go to Alamo.
1) We obviously didn't come to play and honestly, pretty much as expected
2) They obviously came to play, pretty much as expected
3) There is zero doubt we have the better athletes and that is why they have P5 scholarships
4) Field conditions took away 99% of the athletic advantage
We couldn't cut, make guys miss, run crisp routes, etc. It became a body on body slop fest where being in position and making tackles were going to win the day.
Kene may have had a couple of KO's returned for TD's if he could cut at all. Montgomery was basically unable to do anything but run forward and try and break tackles. Our speed was completely negated because we were basically playing on ice. It forced eveyone to play at 2/3 speed but for Drake that doesn't change their game as much.
No excuse to have a game that tight but that was far from normal playing conditions. I think we still go to Alamo.
You do realize that isn’t what bowls care about, right? No you don’t. Would require critical thinking skills.
Btw, genius Grier isn’t playing the bowl game for wvu either. San Antonio is a tourist town. They would far more prefer 30-40K from Iowa State than the 10-15K from West Virginia. Again, critical thinking skills are tough for some.
Based on 6 straight games of the exact same thing. Going with Campbell not learning anything...
What happened to our "super fans" during that second half?
in game i thought yes. but now that the dust has settled, i say no. we beat them head-to-head, are the 3rd place team in the league, and will sell all of our tickets and then some.
today's game was just a weird, weather induced, blip. also, not a lot of people will even notice our game today at a national level.
Ugly, but avoided disaster...which most Cyclone teams of the past wouldn’t have. On to bowl season and warm game!!!
I'm not going to call that a good win, but just happy we won. Good job to the 500 fans that were in the stands.
I love all these new accounts with less than 100 posts knowing everything all of a sudden. GTFO.
Yeah, and in games where we are the better team, Campbell has a definite tendency toward conservative play calling. Drake took chances all day, and managed to hit a bunch without the big mistakes that can come from that.
The only thing this game might have ended is natural grass at Trice. I am sure Campbell isn’t going to put up with conditions like the last half of the season even if the field is perfect the first 3 games.
