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klamath632

klamath632

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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?
 
Though I haven't been really vocal I've been on the keep CPR this year side of things. If we lose next week a bowl game is all most certainly out of reach. If that happens I'll be on the time to change side of the fence. This is possibly the easiest schedule we will ever get in the current Big 12. We have good talent on the first string on both sides of the ball. We've never had a deep team even in our best years. Stay healthy and pray the year gets going next week.
 
I'll be honest, i dont really see all that much of a meltdown on here considering what it could be.

Apathy is setting in quickly. Which is what happens when you have a coach that shouldve been fired last season.
 
klamath632 said:
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?
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We haven't won a game in the Big 12 since 2013. This line of "built to play in the Big 12" don't fly with me man.
 
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. :jimlad: 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.
 
I don't know about a team built to play in the Big 12 but they could be a 9 to 10 win team.
 
Yeah, it's way overboard. Iowa will probably end up being a decent team (that we very well could have beaten with even an average offensive performance in the 2nd half).

The team looks way better on defense than I expected. If the offense can somehow find their stride, we could be much improved.
 
alarson said:
I'll be honest, i dont really see all that much of a meltdown on here considering what it could be.

Apathy is setting in quickly. Which is what happens when you have a coach that shouldve been fired last season.
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This is exactly right. People are wait and see, and we haven't seen enough yet. A win this week would have prompted optimism, but we lost. It wasn't a horrible loss, but it's a loss and because of the past few years people are just apathetic.
 
alarson said:
I'll be honest, i dont really see all that much of a meltdown on here considering what it could be.

Apathy is setting in quickly. Which is what happens when you have a coach that shouldve been fired last season.
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Agreed I am fully on board the apathy wagon. I couldn't even muster my normal hate for Iowa this last week.
 
The frustration isn`t the result of one game, though. And it`s not all that bad. We had much bigger meltdowns last year. There are over reactions yes. But there is also apathy. And even resignation-- some are just resigned to the notion that it`s not going to happen at Iowa State.

If the performance doesn`t improve as the season goes on, the one thing more concerning than meltdowns would be the absence of meltdowns.
 
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.
 
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Gonzo said:
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.
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Which is why this is not a meltdown.

In the context of one game it is a very disappointing outcome, but not a huge deal. A few things go differently an ISU wins by 14+. However this is in the context of CPR Ball. Things don't go differently. In fact, they usually go worse, even against weaker teams. CPR does not come close to fully utilizing the roster he can put together, let alone develop a decent program. As such, his peaks are too low and infrequent.
 
swarthmoreCY said:
Which is why this is not a meltdown.

In the context of one game it is a very disappointing outcome, but not a huge deal. A few things go differently an ISU wins by 14+. However this is in the context of CPR Ball. Things don't go differently. In fact, they usually go worse, even against weaker teams. CPR does not come close to fully utilizing the roster he can put together, let alone develop a decent program. As such, his peaks are too low and infrequent.
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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.
 
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