If Rhoads can't recruit good players, which I've seen over and over on CF, why does it matter if we lose these guys?
We can just replace them with other marginal JUCO players.
JUCO DE Larry Jefferson has also de-committed
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If Rhoads can't recruit good players, which I've seen over and over on CF, why does it matter if we lose these guys?
We can just replace them with other marginal JUCO players.
No. It's not. Where do people get these thoughts??
Statistically our offense is worse than last year.
2013:
Yards/game - 363. 98th in NCAA
Pts/game - 24.8. 91st in NCAA
2014:
Yards/game - 362. 100th in NCAA
Pts/game - 24.8. 95th in NCAA
Last year 9 out of 10 people wanted to fire Messingham during the season. This year, there are people who want Mark Mangino to replace Rhoads as the head coach. WTF...
I had to laugh with the statement..."to be successful next season."
Fans said the same thing about Jimmy Dean Walden in his last 3 or 4 years at ISU, and Walden then got fired midseason of a WINLESS final season in Ames.
I completely agree. Losing a kid to Texas so he can go to Austin and ride the bench for the remainder of his college career rather then coming to Ames and playing for the next 2 years is inexcusable and embarrassing on every level.
This is different though. It provides another reason to rip on the coach, so this matters.
If too many more recruits decommit Pollard won't have a choice. He will have to make a coaching change. Otherwise the bleeding continues for the next four years or more.
Losing a recruit to Texas, understandable in isolation. Losing 3 recruits over the course of a week, that just so happened to coincide with us getting absolutely worked by one of the worst teams in college football? That's something more than a coincidence. How about this-- find me another school who has lost 3 recruits in the same week? Maybe, what, Michigan?
This is pretty funny. Comments like these remind me of the people trying to defend McDermott and all of the player transferring out.
Mods, can we get an edit on the de-commit threads? Please addend Decommit 1, 2, and 3 and so on...to the thread titles so we can keep track of them and not get confused as to whether a thread coming back up to the top is an old thread or another decommit?
To be fair the offense has never been good with Rhoads as head coach and Mangino had zero say in recruiting the players currently playing on offense. Mangino had success at KU, OU, and K-State. So he has a history of being successful as an offensive coordinator and head coach. Don't think it's fair to judge him mid-way through his first season at ISU with an offense that had been really bad before he came in.
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The whole situation seems eerily similar to me.
The crippling fear that we'll never do better and refusal to try.
Oh do tell. Since you know all, start listing them, all who are transferring.
Ready? GO!
Hiring Mangino changes nothing relative to keeping CPR at this point. 3 weeks ago? Maybe. You would then have a chance to build momentum on the field. Now, I don't think you have any better chance of that. You still have a 3 win team at best with an interim head coach that hasn't been named the future coach so there is still murky waters. Losing that 3 weeks of recruiting doesn't matter right now and you don't lose it all anyway.
And those of you talking about KU finding success after firing their coach: They won one game. That will change nothing in the grand scheme. Like I said, if you do it early and can get yourself 3 or 4 more wins, it's a decent move. With 3 more games left, it doesn't matter.
Must have missed where I defended Rhoads? The results on the field are not acceptable but c'mon throwing a hissy fit because a kid from Texas decides to take an offer to play at the University of Texas and losing 2 other kids who have been committed to what 3 different schools now?
