Football Season Postmortem
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I would take 7-5 for infinity years. We are Iowa State, remember?
Not sure how that guy is still allowed to post here honestly.
Who ******* cares? It’s still a giant team that we rarely beat.
Our new O-Line will be quite new and mostly unexperienced. D-Line should be good next year, but we will miss Johnson. I do not worry about receivers, because we still broke records this year even after the loss of Butler. Linebackers should be good. Lewis will be the only notable departure in the secondary this year.
You are saying the exact same thing that many said about us this year. We were hyped in the offseason to be a great, 9-3, 10-2 team this year, but we fell quite short of expectations. I myself am expecting another 7-5, 8-4 type season until we prove that we are better.
After sleeping on it, I'm still disappointed. But it IS nice to be disappointed with 7 wins and a bowl game.
I remember 3 wins feeling like we were making progress.
And if you go to the bowl game, make sure you send a postcard to your favorite Husker fan...
I remember 3 wins feeling like we were making progress.
And if you go to the bowl game, make sure you send a postcard to your favorite Husker fan...
It seems like close games are the norm. Seems impossible to run away from anyone. We should accept this is the way this years team plays.
It is crazy that prove it also could used and be said from the team to its own damn fan base
Is 7-3 with a loss to iowa better than an 8-4 with the extra win coming against a North Texas, Alabama A&M, etc.?
8-4 would completely change the potential bowl.
Replace the hawks with a guaranteed win.
8-4 would completely change the potential bowl.
Replace the hawks with a guaranteed win.
i was only joking. the fan base believes, after 3 years, that this team should be 10-2 11-1 every year.
we’ve had decades and decades of ****. people woulda been ecstatic for 7-5 3 years ago.
this season was a disappointment with what we fielded, but we’re improving.
Or, just win.
It's not like ISU hasn't had the opportunity to beat them. Just came down to fundamentals and ISU is not strong in that area.
Well I can think of two games where a single play executed correctly at one point would have won ISU the game. So predictions of 9-3 weren't all that far off the mark.
The uncharacteristic nature of this ISU team to be sloppy in terms of penalties, or being just a hair slow getting to the ball on defense or getting a turnover that added up huge. It isn't like this team was head and shoulders, talent wise, above the rest of this conference in finishing tied for third. The opportunity to "prove it" was there every week and the disappointing thing with this team, this year, is that they were not often able to finish teams off.
But I'm an optimistic guy. Outside of the OL, almost everyone comes back next year knowing they botched their opportunity in 2019. They have the leadership in the locker room to use that as fuel.
This point exactly. Success brings higher expectations and CMC has brought that.
Shouldn't there be a poll?
Hard to grade this season any better than a C+ or B-
Missed opportunities and 5 losses even with the best QB play in the history of Iowa State Football.
Part of that miss on expectations was my own fault. Replacing 2 key players who moved on to the NFL should've been a red flag for my expectation level.
...Even with the great play from those replacements
Hoping this is a bridge year to an amazing 2020 season
Hard to grade this season any better than a C+ or B-
Missed opportunities and 5 losses even with the best QB play in the history of Iowa State Football.
Part of that miss on expectations was my own fault. Replacing 2 key players who moved on to the NFL should've been a red flag for my expectation level.
...Even with the great play from those replacements
Hoping this is a bridge year to an amazing 2020 season
Nowhere did I suggest fan expectations have any effect on the team. I'm sure Campbell isn't satisfied and will spend the next 9 months making sure next year is better.
What I am saying is the fan rhetoric of "hey, at least we won more than 3 games" is going to get old. It's fine for a few years, but expecting people to be satisfied with what was, by all accounts, a very "meh" year simply because it's better than where we were 10 years ago is unreasonable. At some point I think it's fair for expectations to change.
