Its not just the talent in the RB run. We don't have the talent anywhere to run this offense.
Do you want Campbell gone?
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It’s because everyone just compares it to our own recruiting history, not what everyone else in CFB is doing.
I mean, if we find some coach who is hungry and willing to work for minimum wage we might win more games …
This is the right question. It isn’t a talent issue when you get dominated by a MAC team (just offense obviously, though the D didn’t look as dominant as I hoped either)
He obviously gets to finish the year and if there is improvement through the season he should come back next year, he's earned some time with 2017-2020 but the fans are losing faith fast and he has to give us something to look forward to next season
I remember the days when I was this this kind of a delusional fan. Then in 2005 we went 7-5 with a team that should have at least won 10 games, and in 2006 we went 4-8 (1-7) with a team that nearly every preseason magazine had us winning the North comfortably. A "McCarney can do wrong" kind of fan finally hit his breaking point and I finally had to jump off the bandwagon.
I have seen this story play out too many times at ISU: coach wants to prove he's the smartest person in the room and refuses to change when it's clear that what he insists on sticking to isn't working because the game has changed around him, leaving him behind.
The forced firing of Manning last year was a mandate that things had to change. Instead, Campbell has doubled down on the gutless conservative gameplans that don't work. If he was mandated to change and refused to change, that's a coach that shouldn't be coaching.
I don’t think that ISU will fire Campbell after this year, but I would like Campbell to admit that he owns the current problems with the program and has an idea of how to fix it. I think that he got too proud of himself when things were going great, then he lost out on the Notre Dame job, his ego and enthusiasm took a hit. Now it is time to step up and show what he is made of. Can he assemble and lead a team of champions? Part of leadership is knowing when to delegate responsibilities to teammates with better skills.
I’d be much more open to him staying if he showed any indication he learns from these loses. But he doesn’t. Every game follows the same script and it has for years. And he does not change.
Do I WANT him gone?
no
Do i want to loose to dog $*** team like Ohio, T.O.E, or the dirty birds of Kansas?
HELL NO
Hope Matt can turn it around, right now I am not sure he can.
no
Do i want to loose to dog $*** team like Ohio, T.O.E, or the dirty birds of Kansas?
HELL NO
Hope Matt can turn it around, right now I am not sure he can.
B.S. We could have hired Chris Kleimen when he was at NDSU. We could have also hired Lance Leipold, but we took Campbell.
The offense was inept with purdy here too. 7-6 with NFL talent all over the field.
Um, that might be juuuust a bit of a reach there friend.
Campbell isn’t going anywhere. We lost the game the way we are used to losing: missed FGs and untimely turnovers. Any big 12 offense other than ours would have won that game by three touchdowns….
The offensive line still wasn't any good. Bad offensive lines are a given every year under Campbell.
First half today switched me into the “yes” camp for first time ever.
More and more I think this is just a doomed offense that was rescued by one elite QB and one elite RB.
More and more I think this is just a doomed offense that was rescued by one elite QB and one elite RB.
I don't think he's truly on the hot seat until next year. Coaches who can win NY6 games are worth giving a longer leash to, and a lot of our issues are correctable. But I can't say I'm confident he'll do what it takes to fix the coaching issues at this point.
He does do a lot of things well. His recruiting and development has given us our most talented teams in my lifetime, and that's probably the hardest part of the job. The defense is elite, and while you can rightfully give Heacock a lot of credit for that he's probably only staying on staff with Campbell. The odds of getting a good developmental coach with a great defensive scheme that won't bolt at the first sign of success are very, very low.
But the offensive scheme is broken, and it doesn't look like we're trying to fix it. Campbell and the staff actually have completely reworked a scheme and had success with it, they did it mid-season in year 2 with the defense, but for whatever reason he's unwilling to try that with the offense.
He's also a terrible game manager, which is really the easiest part of the job. Just hire an analyst, play some Madden and figure out what works, or just go with the more aggressive option every time since that's usually correct. Even notoriously stubborn Kirk Ferentz has significantly improved at it since his early days. Just stop playing not to lose.
TL;DR I think this can largely be fixed if he stops being stubborn, but I'm not seeing any sign that's coming soon.
He does do a lot of things well. His recruiting and development has given us our most talented teams in my lifetime, and that's probably the hardest part of the job. The defense is elite, and while you can rightfully give Heacock a lot of credit for that he's probably only staying on staff with Campbell. The odds of getting a good developmental coach with a great defensive scheme that won't bolt at the first sign of success are very, very low.
But the offensive scheme is broken, and it doesn't look like we're trying to fix it. Campbell and the staff actually have completely reworked a scheme and had success with it, they did it mid-season in year 2 with the defense, but for whatever reason he's unwilling to try that with the offense.
He's also a terrible game manager, which is really the easiest part of the job. Just hire an analyst, play some Madden and figure out what works, or just go with the more aggressive option every time since that's usually correct. Even notoriously stubborn Kirk Ferentz has significantly improved at it since his early days. Just stop playing not to lose.
TL;DR I think this can largely be fixed if he stops being stubborn, but I'm not seeing any sign that's coming soon.
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