According to Mr Walden ...Troy Davis could not learn his position on the Wishbone Offense.....esp the blocking assignments...the funny thing is that Troy Davis ran back a kickoff out in boulder against the buffs.....
Talk to me about Jim Walden
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According to Mr Walden ...Troy Davis could not learn his position on the Wishbone Offense.....esp the blocking assignments...the funny thing is that Troy Davis ran back a kickoff out in boulder against the buffs.....
One thing I can say about Jim Criner ...I can't remember him losing to Kansas State .....My wife and me always went on the road to Mizzou and Kansas...One year in Lawrence KS it was homecoming and rained the entire game and Rich Frank kicked the winning field goal as time ran out.....That was Jimmy Criners last year.....
That was pre Snyder though. Apples to oranges. Before Snyder Kstate was fighting for worst program ever championship.
That's NOT A RUMOR but a fact...Bill Snyder desperately wanted a head coaching job and wanted the ISU job and almost had it, until Hayden Fry tried to help him get the ISU job....That's when the great minds at ISU decided on Jimmy Dean Walden.....the rest is history and KState became a football power under Bill Snyder and we became an also ran .....The one thing that Dan McCarney insisted upon was building better football facilities, Danny Mac said that ISU was a Division One School with Division Two facilities and Dan was right on the money....It started with the renovation and expansion of the Jacobsen Building...and the rest is history as they say...GO Cyclones
Yeah KSU used to be so bad that programs like ISU would mark THEM as an auto-W.
I'll always love Walden for giving us one of my all time favorite Cyclones: "The Eel".
Plenty of good points pro and con brought up in this thread.
I was in school and a young alum from 1989-94, and I only missed one home game (KU in 1990) - as I was out of town (FSU @ Miami game with my brother). The 1989 team was exciting and showed promise for the future, but 1990-4 flat out sucked even with the Upset wins over OU in 1990, Nebraska in 1992 and K-State in 1993. He definitely didn't have the fan / admin support that we had in the 70s or have now.
However, I do not think he would have succeeded with today's support either. To me, the biggest issue with Walden as a HC was that like Rhoads, he could put together a solid Xs and Os game plan for a single game, but he had no concept of how to build a PROGRAM like Earle Bruce or Matt Campbell for the long haul. Just my opinion. I was glad to see him go as HC, but I have always wished him the best in life and as a human being. No issues with him in that department.
I was in school and a young alum from 1989-94, and I only missed one home game (KU in 1990) - as I was out of town (FSU @ Miami game with my brother). The 1989 team was exciting and showed promise for the future, but 1990-4 flat out sucked even with the Upset wins over OU in 1990, Nebraska in 1992 and K-State in 1993. He definitely didn't have the fan / admin support that we had in the 70s or have now.
However, I do not think he would have succeeded with today's support either. To me, the biggest issue with Walden as a HC was that like Rhoads, he could put together a solid Xs and Os game plan for a single game, but he had no concept of how to build a PROGRAM like Earle Bruce or Matt Campbell for the long haul. Just my opinion. I was glad to see him go as HC, but I have always wished him the best in life and as a human being. No issues with him in that department.
I remember one year, we played Colorado at Colorado, and hung almost 50 points on them. Of course we still lost, because our defenses were always worse than horrible, but the very next game a really good Nebraska team had trouble scoring 14 points on the same Colorado team at home.
I have wondered what would happen if we took a time machine and combined a Campbell/Heacock defense with a Walden offense. A national championship would not be out of the question.
I have wondered what would happen if we took a time machine and combined a Campbell/Heacock defense with a Walden offense. A national championship would not be out of the question.
That was 1996, with Mac and Troy. 49-42. Two touchdowns in the last 3:00 made it look close.
And Iowa State STILL leads the all-time series 50-49-4 - even after the Snyder dominance for a quarter of a century.
Yeah, that's mind-boggling that ISU had that big of a series advantage to be able to weather the Snyder Regime and still be ahead.
Straying from the main topic, but a cool site for tracking series results, Farmageddon Series history on Winsipedia. Check the bar graph at the top, you can hover and get year-by-year results.
Pretty sure there was no Jacobson building when Mac was hired. Mac and gene smith got that built along with the press box. Then it was Mac and BVDV that built the IPF.
