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Remo Gaggi

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We’ve barely looked.

Late DMac had five 7+ win seasons in 6 years in a much harder situation. That’s two out of four coaches in the last 25 years. Anything before that is getting rather irrelevant. Even Paul Rhoads had more wins after 4 years than Matt, and Rhoads did that with a roster comprised of two transition classes.

You put way, way too much weight on **** from 50 years ago and the fact Chizik didn’t want to be here and Rhoads not made to be a HC.

The next coach, whenever that may be, will be walking into the best situation ever. The largest cyclone fanbase ever. The easiest conference in terms of facing peers. Likely a well stocked roster and good culture. A proven incubator of good coaching working- truly a low risk, high reward program if you look at Rhoads (who had offers to leave from just a 7 win season), CMC, and Chizik
Let's hope the next coach isn't a Jim Criner kind of guy.
 
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One thing I feel about CMC which I hadn't felt in other 'successful' years is the 'way' they win. It just seems to me to be a more solid fundamental way of winning. Combined that with 'depth' and it solidifies my optimism.

We don't get lucky or flukish wins with Campbell. We just earn them straight up.
 

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One thing I feel about CMC which I hadn't felt in other 'successful' years is the 'way' they win. It just seems to me to be a more solid fundamental way of winning. Combined that with 'depth' and it solidifies my optimism.

ISU football hasn't just raised its ceiling, just as importantly it's raised its floor. When we play poorly we're still in games.
 

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Sure feels like Marcus Freeman to me. Catholic. Played at Ohio State. On ND staff. Well thought of at every level. But not yet a head coach being the downer for him. Still, Notre Dame hiring a well-qualified black coach seems so right for that school at this point in time with Fickell, who had to be their first choice, staying in Cincinnati.

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CloneJD

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Sure feels like Marcus Freeman to me. Catholic. Played at Ohio State. On ND staff. Well thought of at every level. But not yet a head coach being the downer for him. Still, Notre Dame hiring a well-qualified black coach seems so right for that school at this point in time with Fickell, who had to be their first choice, staying in Cincinnati.

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Yikes he has more kids than i do. He could use the money just to feed them.
 
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davegilbertson

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Dude just keeps winning!
Just looking at year-by-year results, I know it's been said, but man this is a great run and job he's done and felt it was deserving of another shout-out.

For context:
  • He's matched Iowa State's best win season with 9 wins and exceeded it based upon the prestige of NY6 bowl win
  • Since year 1 cleaning house, his two "worst" seasons (7-5 which could become 8-5 and 7-6) are the best years of Rhoads (7-6 yr 1) and McCarney (2001-02, 2004-05)
 

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Easy to replace? Bruce left ISU in great shape only to have it destroyed by Duncan, Criner, Walden, D'Mac was ok, Chizik, Rhoads. It's not a slam dunk next coach can keep it going especially when you consider there will be losses from this recruiting class and transfers out. Hopefully CMC stays and it's all Moot.
 

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Sure feels like Marcus Freeman to me. Catholic. Played at Ohio State. On ND staff. Well thought of at every level. But not yet a head coach being the downer for him. Still, Notre Dame hiring a well-qualified black coach seems so right for that school at this point in time with Fickell, who had to be their first choice, staying in Cincinnati.

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Great looking Family. He will be a HC next year. He has been a DC for several years now. Notre Dame might be going for Fickell. But Freeman is a helluva Consolation prize. And you have Matt Campbell as a fallback to those two.
 
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One thing I feel about CMC which I hadn't felt in other 'successful' years is the 'way' they win. It just seems to me to be a more solid fundamental way of winning. Combined that with 'depth' and it solidifies my optimism.
And the way they lose. This ISU team doesn't get blown out.
 
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If you had to choose, who do you pick?

Campbell is the prototypical pretty good to maybe very good prospect, who's pretty vanilla, I suppose, but checks most of the boxes in a boring sort of way. As far as I know, he seems like an ideal in unspectacular candidate in a lot of ways. And bottom line is a bright young, capable, proven coach, and we could definitely do worse....

Or Marcus Freeman, a totally unproven HC, and not even all that proven a coordinator, who could very well be the next Lincoln Riley if you will, and who happens to have fallen into our laps, almost as if the football gods want ND to keep winning, so they arranged things so that Marcus Freeman would be right on our doorstep, already within the ND orbit, and there's no excuse for us to overlook him on account of it's just too impossibly big of a risk. We've seen Marcus Freeman up close, and he's absolutely delivered so far his first time on the big stage. We find ourselves needing a coach, there's no other obvious guy to save the day, and so why not??

At this point on a Wednesday morning I'm ready to pull the lever for Marcus Freeman. Don't really know much about Campbell to he honest. Iowa St.'s not bad, though....
 

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You’re wrong on Rhoads having more wins in his first four over Campbell. Campbell won 3, 8, 8, and 7 for 26 wins. Rhoads won 7, 5, 6, and 6 for 24 wins. 26>24.
That’s correct.
Let’s rephrase it then. Even a poor HC like Rhoads had only 3 less wins than Campbell after 4 years, and he had two transition classes working through the roster.

We’ll be fine whenever CMC is no longer HC at Iowa St. It’s been proven that several coaches can have success here, and they didn’t have as good of situation as whatever future coach will, whenever that is.
 

davegilbertson

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That’s correct.
Let’s rephrase it then. Even a poor HC like Rhoads had only 3 less wins than Campbell after 4 years, and he had two transition classes working through the roster.

We’ll be fine whenever CMC is no longer HC at Iowa St. It’s been proven that several coaches can have success here, and they didn’t have as good of situation as whatever future coach will, whenever that is.
do after year 4 now...
 

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I'll admit that Iowa State is a better job than when Campbell took over. I trust that JP could find a replacement however, that doesn't mean we should expect the next coach to keep up what Campbell is building. We all have seen how one coach can change the trajectory of the program like in Men's basketball.

getting a new coach is always a gambling game. I rather not try and gamble.