A thought

[istater7]

Yesterday looked like two pretty evenly matched teams to me. Your guys owned the trenches in the first half, and Iowa benefited from some flukey plays that kept things close. I was not feeling good at halftime, but getting rolled as much as we did and only being down 7, probably felt a bit uneasy for ISU fans. Losing your DT was big, he was a force and giving our OL fits. Losing Ott hurt us as well, but in the short time he was in there, Campos was winning that battle. Whole story of the second half was CJB and our running game getting some wear on your D. As sharp as Richardson looked in the first half he looked way off in the second. Our coaches have never been great at halftime adjustments, not sure what the cause of that was. Our DT Johnson did have a solid day and disrupted some things.

Another close, hard fought Cy-Hawk game. I get up for this one more than any others every year, glad it's such a salty rivalry.

Glad to see a reasonable post on this board right now. And it had to come from an Iowa fan. I think I'm going to stay out of the message boards this week after what I've seen so far this weekend.

 

[kingcy]

It is not about losing that game. It is more about realizing this season nothing really has changed with this team and it is going to be a long season. They didn't attack when they had a change to really put Iowa down. Instead they ****** chances away like they always do. Then there is the issue of CPR teams never playing a good full game. The first half was good, then the 2nd half came and it was the same old struggle at the little things we have saw over and over.

 

[swarthmoreCY]

Has there been a peak since Jake Knott's last game?
It takes special amounts of talent to cover CPR's lacking as a head coach.

This year is the peak. TBD, but given the valley, even 6-6 won't cut it IMO, but would let him get fired next year. I doubt we hit 6, but it will be interesting if we hit 4 or 5 wins.

 

[CyCloned]

I am not ready to melt down yet. I was not happy with the total lack of offense in the second half, and I blame it on the coaches as much as anyone. They need to find ways to get WR space better to stretch defenses. As much as it pains me to say it, it could be that Iowa is a pretty good team that just outsmarted our coaching staff in the second half. That game had a lot of things that bounced Iowa's way, and was anyone's game up until the turnover with 2 minutes left in the game.

 

[BryceC]

I wouldn't call this a meltdown either, we had multiple meltdowns last year during basketball season much worse than this.

And the loss in a vacuum is not bad. The offense going into hibernation in the second half is the problem, it is a massive cause for concern, and it appears to be a potential ongoing problem.

We have a 25.93% third down conversion %. And guess what, the Iowa game improved that stat.

 

[Wesley]

Maybe Paul can be promoted to the pros.

 

[Daserop]

Yesterday looked like two pretty evenly matched teams to me. Your guys owned the trenches in the first half, and Iowa benefited from some flukey plays that kept things close. I was not feeling good at halftime, but getting rolled as much as we did and only being down 7, probably felt a bit uneasy for ISU fans. Losing your DT was big, he was a force and giving our OL fits. Losing Ott hurt us as well, but in the short time he was in there, Campos was winning that battle. Whole story of the second half was CJB and our running game getting some wear on your D. As sharp as Richardson looked in the first half he looked way off in the second. Our coaches have never been great at halftime adjustments, not sure what the cause of that was. Our DT Johnson did have a solid day and disrupted some things.

Another close, hard fought Cy-Hawk game. I get up for this one more than any others every year, glad it's such a salty rivalry.

I would call the game close.

 

[cyclones12321]

Our team certainly isn't built to play in the Big Ten.

I could accept an argument of MAC instead of Big 12, I suppose. All I was trying to get at though was... maybe it was just a bad matchup? I'd like to judge this team on more than two games.

Our oline plays as if they never left highschool. Not being negative just truthful. Our defensive line however, they've made huuuuuge strides

 

[Stormin]

I'm as negative as anyone else here, but the meltdown feels a little hysterical right now. The sane people who were satisfied that CPR won his job-saving game last week are calling for his head this week. Unless your name is Stormin or RustShack, expectations weren't high this year. It's one game. Deal with it.

Besides, isn't it possible we that we just ran into a Big Ten team with a team that is built to play in the Big 12? And didn't our defense do a pretty bang up job until our best run stuffer was injured? Sure, I hope our offense comes around, but it was one game. Can't they still get better?

Seriously......My expectations have always been from 4 to 6 wins this year.......So quit making $hit up about my expectations.

4 to 6 wins........4 to 6 wins.......IMO, that was not unrealistic and is still not unrealistic unless our Offense continues to be MIA.

So quit making stuff up.