Copium Time

[OscarBerkshire]

Alright everyone, time to stop shitting on Campbell and coaching staff. I agree it was a bad loss but those can happen. Campbell isn't getting the boot this year even if we lose out so no point in talking about it on this super influential message board.

It's copium time now. First, we need to rationalize the loss. I'm elite at rationalizing my failures and shortcomings, as my gf would tell you. Ohio is a great team that may even finish the season ranked; they were the best team in the MAC last year and clearly got even better. The loss seems horrible on paper but we just played Ohio football at their peak in many, many years and we were their Super Bowl (as the couple Ohio fans I met at the bar were yelling pregame).

Second, many of the remaining games on our schedule are definitely still winnable. Oklahoma State, Baylor, Cincinnati, and Kansas are all winnable games. If we can find one more win, we're in a bowl game. Now I'm not saying we will win all these games, but you can't all sit here and tell me we don't have a good chance (under one score spreads) against these teams. If we end up making a bowl game, I don't think anyone can complain about the season, even if the first three weeks were disappointing.

The offense and kicker are still infuriating. Yes, it sucks that the issues from last year haven't yet been fixed. Maybe we will lose out or only win one or two in conference play and Campbell's seat warms up for next season. But there's still a lot of football left to be played and wins may still be yet to come. Let's look forward to the rest of the season and be good fans instead of bitter haters.

 

[Rabbuk]

Under Rhoads we would have lost to that team by 40.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

I just want to see an offense that wants to win, instead of one that's afraid to lose.

 

[Gunnerclone]

The O-line won’t have a worse game the rest of the year! Violence!

 

[OscarBerkshire]

I just want to see an offense that wants to win, instead of one that's afraid to lose.

the commitment to the run game is unfortunate. The linemen really just don't have any clue how to execute the scheme we're using in the run game, it seems

 

[OscarBerkshire]

it

The O-line won’t have a worse game the rest of the year! Violence!

it would be hard to do worse than that performance. But we will face better D-lines than that one in Big 12 play

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

It's not hard to stop what we have been doing. Clog the middle, and umbrella coverage.

 

[RonBurgundy]

Color me old. I had never heard copium and had to look it up. It fits.

 

[Rabbuk]

Color me old. I had never heard copium and had to look it up. It fits.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

Alright everyone, time to stop shitting on Campbell and coaching staff. I agree it was a bad loss but those can happen. Campbell isn't getting the boot this year even if we lose out so no point in talking about it on this super influential message board.

It's copium time now. First, we need to rationalize the loss. I'm elite at rationalizing my failures and shortcomings, as my gf would tell you. Ohio is a great team that may even finish the season ranked; they were the best team in the MAC last year and clearly got even better. The loss seems horrible on paper but we just played Ohio football at their peak in many, many years and we were their Super Bowl (as the couple Ohio fans I met at the bar were yelling pregame).

Second, many of the remaining games on our schedule are definitely still winnable. Oklahoma State, Baylor, Cincinnati, and Kansas are all winnable games. If we can find one more win, we're in a bowl game. Now I'm not saying we will win all these games, but you can't all sit here and tell me we don't have a good chance (under one score spreads) against these teams. If we end up making a bowl game, I don't think anyone can complain about the season, even if the first three weeks were disappointing.

The offense and kicker are still infuriating. Yes, it sucks that the issues from last year haven't yet been fixed. Maybe we will lose out or only win one or two in conference play and Campbell's seat warms up for next season. But there's still a lot of football left to be played and wins may still be yet to come. Let's look forward to the rest of the season and be good fans instead of bitter haters.

Sounds like me rationalizing Louisiana loss in 2020. That team did finish ranked and was very good with a handful of NFL players, but end of the day, nobody cares. You lost to a Sun Belt team and all the Hawkeye fans in the state don't let you forget it. Surprisingly I have not heard much noise from any of the ones I know for losing to the future MAC champs...

Also, this is essentially the same Ohio team that we smacked in Ames last year with our 4-8 team. This tells me we are potentially in for a world of hurt the rest of the year. Basketball is only 6ish weeks away...

 

[Statefan10]

I just want to see an offense that wants to win, instead of one that's afraid to lose.

This is the perfect statement of how our offense has faired all year long. Flat out afraid. They need confidence and it's up to our staff to give it to them.

 

[Clonehomer]

At this point, nothing realistic would turn this around to be a successful season. So what I really want to see is development. We have a freshman qb. Run a full offense and let him make mistakes. Don’t run an offense that will just keep us in games because that’s not going to teach him how to throw the passes that he’ll need to throw in the future.

I’d prefer to lose a game by 3 TDs because we tried an aggressive offensive game plan and there some picks than the conservative game plan that might keep the game within 10 points. Try to win the game, not just try to avoid losing it.

 

[jsb]

Alright everyone, time to stop shitting on Campbell and coaching staff. I agree it was a bad loss but those can happen. Campbell isn't getting the boot this year even if we lose out so no point in talking about it on this super influential message board.

It's copium time now. First, we need to rationalize the loss. I'm elite at rationalizing my failures and shortcomings, as my gf would tell you. Ohio is a great team that may even finish the season ranked; they were the best team in the MAC last year and clearly got even better. The loss seems horrible on paper but we just played Ohio football at their peak in many, many years and we were their Super Bowl (as the couple Ohio fans I met at the bar were yelling pregame).

Second, many of the remaining games on our schedule are definitely still winnable. Oklahoma State, Baylor, Cincinnati, and Kansas are all winnable games. If we can find one more win, we're in a bowl game. Now I'm not saying we will win all these games, but you can't all sit here and tell me we don't have a good chance (under one score spreads) against these teams. If we end up making a bowl game, I don't think anyone can complain about the season, even if the first three weeks were disappointing.

The offense and kicker are still infuriating. Yes, it sucks that the issues from last year haven't yet been fixed. Maybe we will lose out or only win one or two in conference play and Campbell's seat warms up for next season. But there's still a lot of football left to be played and wins may still be yet to come. Let's look forward to the rest of the season and be good fans instead of bitter haters.

This is the kind of denial that will make the season bearable and all of us a lot less miserable! I applaud it.

 

[CyPack]

This is the perfect statement of how our offense has faired all year long. Flat out afraid. They need confidence and it's up to our staff to give it to them.

Problem is the staff are the ones who seem to be coaching not to lose, specifically Campbell. No sense of urgency or agressiveness at all. At least try some misdirection, a trick play or two, anything to try and get some momentum going to move the ball. Its just too stagnant and vanilla and easy to scheme against.

 

[Sigmapolis]

These damn Zoomers and their disembowelment of the English language.



I'm kidding. I actually think "copium" is a fairly clever neologism.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

Problem is the staff are the ones who seem to be coaching not to lose, specifically Campbell. No sense of urgency or agressiveness at all. At least try some misdirection, a trick play or two, anything to try and get some momentum going to move the ball. Its just too stagnant and vanilla and easy to scheme against.

Campbell wants to go down as the ISU coach to lose by the smallest margins. Maybe that is what he's been talking about all these years.

 

[Statefan10]

Sounds like me rationalizing Louisiana loss in 2020. That team did finish ranked and was very good with a handful of NFL players, but end of the day, nobody cares. You lost to a Sun Belt team and all the Hawkeye fans in the state don't let you forget it. Surprisingly I have not heard much noise from any of the ones I know for losing to the future MAC champs...

Also, this is essentially the same Ohio team that we smacked in Ames last year with our 4-8 team. This tells me we are potentially in for a world of hurt the rest of the year. Basketball is only 6ish weeks away...

Go back and look at the box score of that game and I'll show you exactly why we won that game. Dekkers was 32-42 for three TDs. Saturday, Rocco was 17-24. Then go to the play by play of the game... First drive of the game we threw the ball 8 times and only ran it twice before reaching the red zone. You can see clearly though that we wanted to establish our offense through the air and it worked!

Now let's see our first drive this year... Run no gain, run 8 yards, run loss of 2 yards.

I understand there's scripted drives but come on. Funny enough, the next drive we run it yet again on first down for no gain and BOOM back to back pass plays with one going for 45 yards. Unbelievable.

 

[ClonerJams]

I have the Bears to fallback on to save my weekends!

 

[Statefan10]

Problem is the staff are the ones who seem to be coaching not to lose, specifically Campbell. No sense of urgency or agressiveness at all. At least try some misdirection, a trick play or two, anything to try and get some momentum going to move the ball. Its just too stagnant and vanilla and easy to scheme against.

Oh for sure. The staff has put our offense in positions to fail because they're too afraid.

 

[gocy444]

I miss when the staff was super involved on social media celebrating every commit. Every day felt exciting. I get that the shine wears off, but watching our football team seems more like a chore right now than enjoyment.