Help me shake my pessimisim

[mustangcy]

Fair enough. I get sick of the people with their head stuck so far up their *** that they refuse to see dynamic, ongoing progress, and have to moan about how the whole world is stacked against them and their team. :wink:

The reality is that with the attitude that you and those of a similar ilk project, the Cyclones wouldn't have beaten Texas Tech this year, because they are "always" a Top 25 team, and that will never change. So how can we compete with that?

With that attitude, the Cyclones never would have beaten Texas, in Austin. No, not mighty Texas! The team that has all the advantages, the money, the schedule, and brings in all of those highly touted recruits! They would have just rolled over, and let a mediocre team have their way with us.

With that attitude, playing in Lincoln last year, the reserves filling in for injured starters should have just sat down and watched the Huskers run over, around and through them--because they have all that rich history, all those championships, all those die hard fans.

After all, all of those teams are impossible to beat, by your logic.

By the way--as far as the record versus Iowa the last six years--do you have a clue what it was the fifteen years before Danny Mac started beating 'em like a drum?

The entire underlying logic of your post is that everything remains static and unchanging. I have watched both this team and the coaching improve over the last two years under CPR. I am confident that process will continue.

My biggest concern about a stuttering offense isn't the wideouts, but an offensive line that doesn't always offer adequate protection for the quarterback to set up (let alone deliver the ball in stride), or the wideouts to run their routes to fruition. More time for each means more passes have a better chance of being caught.

The defense was entirely pathetic a couple of years ago, and is steadily morphing into a scrappy, antagonistic bunch. Give Wally Burnham a few more tools, as I see lurking amongst this class (not to mention the redshirts), and watch out.

I like where this team is heading. I'm looking for opportunities for them to succeed, rather than reasons to run away and hide. And that is hardly aimed solely at the OP.

"Blow hard" indeed. :skeptical:

Your trying to bait me into an argument that I'm not even attempting to make. Of course I LOVE our coach. Of course those wins against Texas and Tech and Nebraska were huge..they were pretty much the highlight of my life the last few years. Of course we are MUCH improved over recent years. And I've never said beating those teams was impossible. You said that or rather put those words in my mouth. But where did beating Texas and Tech get us this year? A seasons end a week before Thanksgiving. We going to beat Texas every year? If we don't where do the extra wins come from simply to go bowling? These are the simple points I'm trying to make..or rather the points I'm trying to get around.

I don't need to be told how good a coach Wally Burnham is. I think anyone passionate enough to be on this board fully understands. But I think it is MUCH more destructive for our fan base to have attitudes like yours...mine is realisitic. Yours is not..no matter how good it makes you feel. Constantly coming on here telling everyone how all we have to do is beat Iowa and Texas and all the other South teams and everything will be ok is more detrimental than having a realistic conversation.

 

[JUKEBOX]

Please expound on your statement. Hopefully you don't consider 3 offensive points against Iowa in each of the 2008 and 2009 games against them and one TD in garbage time of the 2010 game as being anything but failure.

I understand why some fans want to continue playing Iowa, I do. I understand that the game we get against them every two years at home really helps our revenue for those years. But dumping that game will allow us a better opportunity to make bowl games and generate better W-L records, and with that success will come revenue to match or exceed that which is gained once every other year by playing Iowa.

Our record against Iowa in the last 10 meetings is 4-6. We MUST remove that 40% chance of winning one of our 3 OOC games and replace it with one that is closer to 85-90% chance of winning. We have to.

You misunderstood my post. He used the word fail, and I hate that word hence it's bolded. I don't even think I read the rest of the post.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

If CPR strings together a few winning seasons, you will see a swell of fan support for ISU, which will greatly level the playing field with the rest of the Big 12.

I believe CPR can and will do that.

 

[mt85]

Your trying to bait me into an argument that I'm not even attempting to make. Of course I LOVE our coach. Of course those wins against Texas and Tech and Nebraska were huge..they were pretty much the highlight of my life the last few years. Of course we are MUCH improved over recent years. And I've never said beating those teams was impossible. You said that or rather put those words in my mouth. But where did beating Texas and Tech get us this year? A seasons end a week before Thanksgiving. We going to beat Texas every year? If we don't where do the extra wins come from simply to go bowling? These are the simple points I'm trying to make..or rather the points I'm trying to get around.

I don't need to be told how good a coach Wally Burnham is. I think anyone passionate enough to be on this board fully understands. But I think it is MUCH more destructive for our fan base to have attitudes like yours...mine is realisitic. Yours is not..no matter how good it makes you feel. Constantly coming on here telling everyone how all we have to do is beat Iowa and Texas and all the other South teams and everything will be ok is more detrimental than having a realistic conversation.

Maybe this will help.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAdLruOIKmA&NR=1]YouTube - Drill Sergeant Therapist[/ame]

 

[CYlent Bob]

You are not alone.

Worse yet, I can easily see the Big 12 splitting up. And just like the SWC, ISU will suffer the same fate of TCU, SMU, and Rice. We are dangerously close to playing in the MWC or god forbid the MAC.

Really? You see us playing in a BCS game in the near future? Cool.