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"Coaching" in four words
1. Recruiting
2. Development
3. Preparation
4. Adjustments
It is coaching. Part of coaching is developing players. Has Sam Richardson gotten any better since he got on campus? Grant Rohach was an Elite 11 QB coming out of HS... and he has probably regressed since he arrived in Ames.
Another big part of coaching is evaluating talent... Mike Warren hardly played in the first 2 games and since has gone off running the football. How is it the guy wasn't the starter from the get go? On the TCU telecast the announcers said that Warren was described by the staff as a "Saturday night guy" meaning he doesn't show anything in practice or scrimmages but shows up on Saturday night and plays great. Does anyone really believe that? That sounds more like a good cover for finally playing a kid and he lights it up and the staff now needs an excuse as to why he never saw the field before that.
ISU has some talent at key positions but if the schemes or game plans that the staff puts in place week to week doesn't put these guys in the right position to make plays then there isn't much they can do. (See Wally and the 12 yard cushions our corners play)
In last week's press conference after the Tech game, Coach threw the team under the bus. He told the world that his team was scared of Tech. This week, after the TCU game, Coach said Lanning's pass should have never been thrown. He also said Sam Richardson's performance was "spot on".
The problem is coaching. Period. End of story.
That is shocking! Said no one ever.Adam Gray @AdamJGray17 37m37 minutes ago
On the pass from Lanning to Lazard, CPR said, “probably not a ball that should have been thrown.
Adam Gray @AdamJGray17 37m37 minutes ago
On the pass from Lanning to Lazard, CPR said, “probably not a ball that should have been thrown.
I watched presser after TCU game I didn't see CPR say Lanning shouldn't throw that ball?
What would Rhoads/Mangino do with Baylor's players?
1 yard runs up the middle, atrocious bubble screens and punts on 4th and 2 from the opponent's 40
It would be way more interesting to see what Briles would do with our guys.
I have noticed that other teams seem to make the adjustments necessary at halftime and we never seem to make them ourselves. If we did, we would always be getting outplayed during the second half. Sometimes we are within striking distance at halftime and they make adjustments and we can't do anything that was working during the first half of the game.Yes, it is about coaching. The second half of the Iowa game was 100% the coaches not making the right adjustments to the ones Iowa's defensive coordinators made. I would say the TCU game would be the same thing, although I don't think it would have mattered. ISU wasn't going to outscore TCU anyway. The Texas Tech game, well, I put that on one coach and one qb.
I think it is safe to say that this grade can't be above a D+Mid-Season Grades for the Staff
1. Recruiting - B (ISU has talent… see Warren, Lazard, Jones, Tucker, Pierson)
2. Development - incomplete
3. Preparation - D- (still coming out flat to begin games and second halves)
4. Adjustments - F-