Get over it UNI was a strong team with a talented young QB we were going to have as a preferred walk on.
Official: ISU one of the unluckiest teams of the year
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We had some tough breaks but even average special teams play would have had us at 9 or 10 wins. A lot of those mistakes were on us, not luck.
UNI prepared for ISU for 12 months
I'm tired of all this lucky or unlucky crap. What year was Rhoads here and our opposing coaches called us "The best 1-8 team in the country!"
Who gives a rats ass start winning some games and prove it
Who gives a rats ass start winning some games and prove it
ISU was lucky that Purdy didn't throw more picks vs OSU. They dropped quite a few that game. OSU was unlucky in that regard.
I'm sure the Baylor loss had some unfortunate plays/calls, but ISU gets a stop on that last drive and Clones win. Not blaming the D, just sayin' what we all know.
OU had the PI on the 2 point play, but It also looked like CK was open and could have won that game. Its goes both ways there, and even with PI ISU would still have needed to convert on the next play.
This ISU team had some great players, and was in general a really solid team. They lost as a team, when the offense no showed 1st half vs Baylor. Defense no-showed 1st half vs OU. O-line got man handled vs KSU. ST screw up vs Iowa which didn't give the offense the chance.
A lucky bounce here and there would have helped, but ISU had critical lapses all year making that hill much harder to climb. ISU didn't seem to get their **** together until they were in a hole. You can't consistently do that and expect to win each week.
I'm sure the Baylor loss had some unfortunate plays/calls, but ISU gets a stop on that last drive and Clones win. Not blaming the D, just sayin' what we all know.
OU had the PI on the 2 point play, but It also looked like CK was open and could have won that game. Its goes both ways there, and even with PI ISU would still have needed to convert on the next play.
This ISU team had some great players, and was in general a really solid team. They lost as a team, when the offense no showed 1st half vs Baylor. Defense no-showed 1st half vs OU. O-line got man handled vs KSU. ST screw up vs Iowa which didn't give the offense the chance.
A lucky bounce here and there would have helped, but ISU had critical lapses all year making that hill much harder to climb. ISU didn't seem to get their **** together until they were in a hole. You can't consistently do that and expect to win each week.
This. Luck didn't keep Hall off the field until 1/3 of the season was over, cause poor play calling/execution in the red zone, or give up more 3 & 15+ on D than most of us care to count. We could've used some breaks for sure, but we took advantage of very few opportunities. I don't call that bad luck.
Did ISU really have any games where it felt like they were really flying around and crisp in their approach?
The first half of the Texas game comes to mind as maybe about as 'up' as they looked all season.
How would you score Tech's loss to KU? Blow a 17 point lead. Fumble the blocked field goal attempt to give the ball back to KU and a second shot at the winning field goal.
Standard bad luck because the last play was player controlled.
It's double bad luck when the refs show they don't know the rules.
A lot of people are misinterpreting what is meant by "luck." In any game, you generate all these stats that are correlated with/predict winning. But at the end of the game you either win or lose. This analysis is saying that based on the game-by-game stats generated by our team against our schedule, we would have been expected to win 9 of those games. The weird stuff that happens - running into our own punt returner against Iowa, the not-a-fumble fumble returned for a TD by UNI, etc. - causes us to lose games we played well enough to win, but is generally not repeatable year-to-year. If our luck regresses to the mean next year, which it presumably will, we should have a really good year.
