Cyhawk postgame thread

[RonBurgundy]

Big Citrus is another great example of why it makes sense for most of ISU's best players to remain at ISU, even though their NIL package is likely smaller than what they can get at the SEC/Big 10 schools.

If Orange had jumped in the portal and spent his last few years swimming in a bigger pond, he would have made a million more than he's making at ISU (maybe even a few million more), but I seriously doubt he would have developed into the 1st round draft pick he's gonna be next year.

Orange sacrificed some earnings now to cash in on massive earnings next year.

That is the irony of the 4* QB out of Nebraska, Thomalla. Accepts an ISU offer and then switches when Alabama comes calling. You would think Brock Purdy turning down Bama to honor his commitment to ISU would be a good lesson learned. Instead of leading an NFL team to the Super Bowl, Brock might have been stuck on the bench at Bama with maybe a bigger bag, but no future.

Not going to ride the kid. He may well be back some day.

 

[CyCity]

Right now I’d call it an edge. Iowas WRs are bad. Especially without Vanderzee. Ours have shown flashes, but that’s it. They need to be a lot more consistent if they are going to be a real threat. Iowa bracketed the TEs and our WRs did pretty much nothing against single coverage.

They don’t have a single WR that would get snaps for us. They were offering Eli Green the #1 spot and a bag and he came here to be a backup.

 

[flycy]

I think the bigger issue is that it's not reviewable, so the refs have to try to recreate it in their memory to make a decision. Everything happens too fast to follow who was being blocked, when the block ended, how much the momentum from the block moved him into the returner, etc. I know they try to keep most subjective calls out of review procedures, but like targeting, if they're going to give the opportunity to second guess the initial flag, they might as well base that on something they can watch carefully.

That would be a good rule, to pick up a flag the play must be reviewed for the penalty or lack thereof.

 

[FinalFourCy]

They don’t have a single WR that would get snaps for us. They were offering Eli Green the #1 spot and a bag and he came here to be a backup.

The crazy thing is Green may still end up with more yards as our WR5 or WR6 than as a WR1 at Iowa

 

[VeloClone]

Is it simply because he coached in the predecessor Western/Big 9 Conferences before it was ever called the Big 10? I know the world talks about "Big 12 records" somewhat regularly as if the Big 8 didn't exist beforehand, so I suppose that wouldn't be that unusual.

The original Missouri Valley, Big 6 and Big 7 are included in the Big 8 records. When the Big 12 was formed they made a conscious decision since it was a merging of two conferences (Big 8 and SWC) that it would be a new conference and the two old conferences would be separate from the new Big 12.

 

[Pope]

Iowa is always looking for the short cut. Instead of recruiting a high school QB and developing the heck out of him, they've decided they'll just buy one in the portal. They haven't figured out that approach is not sustainable financially.

It reminds me of many years ago when the state legislature was planning to change the Regent university funding formula and divide the state appropriations for ISU, Iowa, and UNI based on their respective Iowa resident enrollment.

Iowa panicked because they knew this meant ISU's appropriation would go up dramatically and theirs would go down. So instead of working their butts off to recruit more resident students, they decided they'd just buy AIB (the business school in Des Moines whose enrollment is 99% Iowa residents) and declare all of those AIB students to be their own. That was their attempt at taking the short cut.

Fortunately, the Board of Regents stepped in and told Iowa no way. And unfortunately, the legislature decided to go back to their old model for dividing state appropriations and Iowa got to keep receiving the majority share even though ISU had far more Iowa resident students.

 

[David Freshman1982]

If he can get a few sacks by the end of this season, hell yes. Making plays in the face of constant double/triple teams is what the scouts are looking for.

I think they’ll downgrade him a bit out of conditioning concerns—even if unwarranted—but no way does he last past the second round.

 

[Pope]

That is the irony of the 4* QB out of Nebraska, Thomalla. Accepts an ISU offer and then switches when Alabama comes calling. You would think Brock Purdy turning down Bama to honor his commitment to ISU would be a good lesson learned. Instead of leading an NFL team to the Super Bowl, Brock might have been stuck on the bench at Bama with maybe a bigger bag, but no future.

Not going to ride the kid. He may well be back some day.

That's exactly what I posted when Thomalla flipped on us. A lot of folks on this board disagreed with me and said he was smart to take the Alabama NIL bag now. I guess time will tell.

You're right, he may end up in Ames a year or two down the road.

 

[MartyFine]

 

[CYCLNST8]

Hawkeye tears are like heroin. I can’t get enough.

 

[BCClone]

Player of the week. Shows how crappy PFF is. They had him as stinking it up.

 

[F5cy]

The video staff does great work

 

[CychiatricWard]

Quite a far cry from the week before but to be expected when that was week 1, with number 1 vs 2. I wonder how that fares to other big noon games from last year that didn’t involve blue bloods?

 

[FinalFourCy]

Quite a far cry from the week before but to be expected when that was week 1, with number 1 vs 2. I wonder how that fares to other big noon games from last year that didn’t involve blue bloods?

Probably would have hit 5 if Iowa was ranked and it wasn’t a low scoring FG fest

 

[CychiatricWard]

Probably would have hit 5 if Iowa was ranked and it wasn’t a low scoring FG fest

Oh for sure. I’m not disappointed with the number at all! Just more curious now from last years perspective now.

 

[CychiatricWard]

I went and looked. 2024 season fox noon game numbers. They are as follows:

Week 0/1: Penn St/WV: 2.99m
Week 2: Michigan/Texas: 9.19m
Week 3: Alabama/Wisconsin: 5.03m
Week 4: Marshall/Ohio State: 3.96m
Week 5: Minnesota/Michigan: 3.60m
Week 6: UCLA/Penn State: 2.75m
Week 7: Washington/Iowa: 2.37m
Week 8: Nebraska/Indiana: 3.18m
Week 9: Nebraska/Ohio State: 5.96m
Week 10: Ohio State/Penn State: 9.77m
Week 11: Purdue/Ohio State: 3.48m
Week 12: Utah/Colorado: 4.00m
Week 13: Indiana/Ohio State: 9.32m
Week 14: Michigan/Ohio State: 12.30m

 

[Pizzapitter]

Sama fumbled in Ireland on the pitch and they kept him in getting almost every 1st half carry.

The pitch by Rocco was HORRIBLE!

 

[CySmurf]

 

[danvillecyclone]

The pitch by Rocco was HORRIBLE!

Fair enough.

I was at the game so I couldn’t really get a feel. I just saw Sama had his hands on it.

I just watched the replay and the pitch was certainly high (towards his helmet, and seemingly too close for as fast as it was. High and fast.

After seeing the replay, I actually think Sama went too straight. That pitch is designed to get the ball to Sama on the outside as quickly as possible. My take is that Sama didn’t go laterally enough and it was a high rocket at close range. On my first look, it actually looked like Sama was getting a handoff, due to his path.

Just my interpretation of the replay.

 

[Kinch]