Done with Wally
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You posted about him as a DC. His results as a DC speak otherwise. You're attempt at another little dig at CPR is factually incorrect.
Do you like rainbows or unicorns better? If he had any answers on defense I'm sure he would have let Wally in on them, unless he likes having a bottom of D1 defense every year.
There's basically recruiting, teaching and scheming/strategy. Give me average recruiting and Mark Dantonio over Brady Hokes great recruiting every day. Coaches like Saban didn't get to where they are by recruiting first. They got to where they are by developing and teaching better at first and then as they gained exposure and reputation, recruits came in. There's a reason Ed Orgeron isn't a head coach even though he is and has been one of the best recruiters out there for a long time.
So do his results as a DC when he was actually a DC matter? Maybe he doesn't meddle in the defense. I have no idea how all of that works but I do know that he had very good defenses when he was a defensive coordinator. I know that doesn't fit your agenda but it's a fact. Given, it's a fact you probably weren't aware of or want to acknowledge, but a fact nonetheless.
Let's be real here, Paul Rhoads' defensive prowess is not why he is the coach at ISU. There are 30 or more coaches in the NCAA that can do what Rhoads does scheme wise, at least. Paul Rhoads was and is a good head coach at ISU because of his personality and his ability to motivate players, his connection to ISU.
Now, whether that is enough anymore is the question for the next couple years. But I don't care to pin a bunch of schematic defensive issues on him, so I'm with you. That's a DC issue.
I'm aware of his record before coming to Iowa State. So if he doesn't meddle in our offense, and he doesn't meddle in our defense, and our special teams make high school mistakes, what does he do?
Again, if you don't understand that the reason Paul Rhoads is/was a good fit at ISU is something other than defensive scheme I don't know what to tell you.
1 silly mistake and you harp on that. Our special teams has been pretty solid since he has been at ISU.
The most frustrating part is we wouldn't be having this discussion if our guys would just wrap up instead of ankle diving. I'm not talking about getting burned or juked and diving for the feet. I'm talking about meeting a guy in the backfield and either diving or not wrapping on the hit. It's there week after week for everyone to see. Why isn't this being fixed? It isn't a talent issue it's a fundamental issue. Which is a hands-on coaching issue.
1 major ST mistake of the course of 6 years worth of pretty solid ST play. There's enough negative going on here that is real. People shouldn't have to just fabricate stuff.
Our defense over the past 6 years has been nothing like Rhoads defense that he coordinated. That's why I think he let's his coordinators do their thing. Being a HC, IMO is similar to managing most businesses. The best way is too hire the right guys and let them do their thing. If you believe you can do said thing better than anyone else and can juggle the responsibility, you handle that thing yourself. I would actually be intrigued by the idea of Rhoads running the defense and hiring a guy to coach another position.
CPR has stated previously that he lets his coordinators do the scheming and coaching. I believe he made a joke at one point that Wally "locks him out of the meeting room" or something to that effect. What Rhoads did at Pitt isn't what we're doing now. It's Wally's scheme, and it has shown to work when we have the player to run it, and turns to swiss cheese when we don't. Don't know why it has to be more complicated than that.
We won a total of 5 games in the two years of Chizik. We were much worse then.
Chizik made sure that our players spent 20 minutes of his first practice lining up their helmets. Terrible coach.
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Unfortunately the rah rah, hit them getting off the bus, so proud stuff is wearing thin when you can only beat Iowa, KU and Toledo, even though Toledo will win the MAC and Iowa is in the running tin the BIG. Not sure the motivation is working as well this year. We looked like a bunch of schoolboys in our last game.
