Guess the open competition for kicking did not matter last game. We still lost.
Is it really coaching?
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Guess the open competition for kicking did not matter last game. We still lost.
As a suffering fan of ISU and the San Diego Chargers I say yes. Hell yes. Add in a cheap athletic director/owner that refuse to do what is necessary because it might be costly and the results are........... well, the results are Cyclone and Chargers football.
Surprised CPR didn't call out Netten in his weekly press conference today for not making any field goals on Saturday.
Yes. It really is coaching. I've seen enough out of our team this year to know that they have the talent to compete in the Big 12. Win it all? No way. But we are at least talented enough to win 6-8 games with the players we currently have. We will be lucky to win 3.
... or he's resigned to the fact he'll be fired at the end of the season; that wouldn't surprise me either.
The problem at Ia State is lousy failed Recruiting Until Recruiting gets a whole lot better be prepared to fight it out with KU for Last Place
For most of the coaches in college football, you are probably right. But, then there are those special coaches the literally turn a program around after the first game. Take Michigan for example, Brady Hoke had a great resume coming into Michigan and quickly crashed the program. He later said he was unprepared to coach at Michigan. Then enter Jim Harbaugh, they lost their first game to Utah, then win the next 5 games before losing to MSU on a miraculous last play. He takes an OK QB from Iowa and turns him into a solid major college QB, who would have thought that was possible!
Some coaches, like CEOs, have a special talent/gift and make you better than you thought you could be. They know how to select talent and get you to perform at a higher level than others. Those are the special coaches and only years of winning can show you who they are.
Is it really coaching? Short answer....yes, coaching is part of it. But it is not the only answer or gap that needs closed in this case from what I as an outsider can see. I certainly think that you have to have it and that it can be a force multiplier, but in today's college football landscape, I would put leadership at a premium over ability to coach and here's why.
I think if you cracked open consistently successful football programs to look at their recipe for success I think you will find that, there are a ton of things that have to happen (sometimes in order) for success (i.e. winning) to take place (similar to finding success in the business world).
Perhaps one of the biggest force multipliers is getting everyone (including the administration / leadership / staff on the same page). I cannot stress this enough. Without it, forget it as you are already starting off in the hole and the personal / philosophical differences get in the way and you spin your wheels and literally get nowhere.
You then need to make sure that you have the right people necessary to make your goals and vision a reality, and then (here is the challenging part that trips some up)......get out of their way, remove their roadblocks, and let them do their jobs. Give them your support, let them know the expectations, develop them in areas that will create win / win scenarios for both them and the company (program), praise them when they succeed, hold them accountable when they make mistakes, and celebrate (deflect praise) when the team performs well, and shoulder all the criticism when things don't go well.
In short.....Leadership trumps pretty much everything. With it, you can go further and accomplish more as a team than you ever thought possible. Without it, you get a lot of people asking themselves, "Why am I here"?
I think if you cracked open consistently successful football programs to look at their recipe for success I think you will find that, there are a ton of things that have to happen (sometimes in order) for success (i.e. winning) to take place (similar to finding success in the business world).
Perhaps one of the biggest force multipliers is getting everyone (including the administration / leadership / staff on the same page). I cannot stress this enough. Without it, forget it as you are already starting off in the hole and the personal / philosophical differences get in the way and you spin your wheels and literally get nowhere.
You then need to make sure that you have the right people necessary to make your goals and vision a reality, and then (here is the challenging part that trips some up)......get out of their way, remove their roadblocks, and let them do their jobs. Give them your support, let them know the expectations, develop them in areas that will create win / win scenarios for both them and the company (program), praise them when they succeed, hold them accountable when they make mistakes, and celebrate (deflect praise) when the team performs well, and shoulder all the criticism when things don't go well.
In short.....Leadership trumps pretty much everything. With it, you can go further and accomplish more as a team than you ever thought possible. Without it, you get a lot of people asking themselves, "Why am I here"?
Great post. When ISU hits the re-set button after the season, there needs to be a much more solid foundation set for the program and the next Coach. It starts with the President and AD committing to football and making it clear that it's no longer acceptable to represent the university and the state as poorly as this program has. Very few people are naive enough to think we can be the upper Midwest version of Alabama, but it's time to set some goals and targets for this program and start holding people accountable for meeting them. There's enough money and current support to be much more competitive and competent. A .400 lifetime winning percentage is just flat out embarrassing and not worthy of a great institution.
Sam Richardson, Grant Rohach and Jerome Tiller were 3* QBs coming out of HS, so were Nick Florence, Bryce Petty and Seth Russell. The guys on the end of that list have season stats similar to the career totals of the first 3 combined, despite playing at one of the least prestigious schools in the p5.
Looks more like he knows he is burnt toast. Why would any coach "go through the motions" and dig a deeper bad legacy hole.
It's a combination of coaching and recruiting but mostly recruiting. They just don't have the talent to compete game in and game out.
CPR and the ISU staff are consistently being out coached in the second halves of games. Patterson changed up his defense after the first quarter, EIU tweaked their offense at half, etc...watch the past couple of years, ISU just gets schooled in the second half of most games because other staffs adapt and change it up, whereas ISU tries to stay with the same old tried and not true methods.
