Matt Campbell postgame quote
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I'm kind of mind blown that this is still a thing and people are still trying to justify being butthurt over it. Campbell took a shot at the fans, so what? The way these message boards have been the last couple of weeks, we probably deserved it.
I'd just rather win even if the points all came off safeties and field goals, but to each their own.
Exactly.
"Remember when we snorted meth every year? And now we don't do that. We just get by now, without drugs, just have a normal life. Steady. Predictable. But that's OK. Beats waking up with another tooth next to my pillow."
Let's start with playing better this week than last week. Some of us expected that between Baylor and KU......didn't happen. Then again between KU and KSU.......didn't happen. Should we not expect it between KSU and UT or between any other game?
Also........finishing above .500 every year. Especially in conference. Because being happy with anything less is for what did he say......."s*** programs"?
Coaching is a what have you done for me lately profession....sorry. I'm sure he knows that better than anyone.
So unless his early success was an accident we reasonably expect to be above .500 in conference every year.
There is a lot of football yet to be played and that reasonable goal could still be reached. But right now I'm not seeing it.
How many games have we won this year without scoring a TD? I don't think we have a safety this year, so I can't speak to that one. Only FGs is evidently not enough.
Like Blum said on the podcast, if he'd just said "some of" or "parts of" I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Do you honestly think he meant all fans despite what he said? Jesus that's stupid. I didn't attack the kicker, so I am mature enough he wasn't referring to me. If you didn't attack the kicker, then be adult enough to realize he wasn't attacking you.
“Some people tried to fry our kicker”. Right there. All that needs to be said.
You have that right as well. If youre someone who spend money on the team thats a very different and earned mentality. The rest of my post is not a shot at you btw.
Im not at all saying bury the past and start firing people for 9-3. But this "Poor little Iowa State. We failed in the 90s so we're doomed to hell. Any wins ever are a miracle really." Mentality needs to go. Its not impossible to win here. We did literally 2 years ago.
We're the only fanbase who plays this card in the conference. Baylor doesn't. TCU doesn't use their old G5 status as a crutch. The 4 new schools won't either. I feel like we're almost becoming the Anti-Nebraska where we have people who refuse to look at things happening in the 2020s due to how bad we were 30, yes 30, years ago.
Im not saying yall have to agree with all my points or arguments. If you dont have an issue with things and enjoy every moment of not being 2-10 then do you. Im not gonna tell you how to enjoy things. But god damn, quit telling everyone how bad it used to be. Because its not that anymore and it doesnt have to be that way again either
It's possible that if you're not someone that went after Gilbert on social media, but are still upset that he said "fanbase" instead of "parts of the fanbase", that you need to be less soft. Possible.
Prohm was terrible. He didn’t build the program. He inherited a great situation. Sucked as a coach. Don’t equate Campbell to Prohm. We got freaking Prohm because of some fans screaming “process”. Can’t hire TJ. Trust Pollard. Trust Campbell. We are in good hands.
And did we win that game?
I think we're 50/50 on 1 TD games, I guess. Trending the wrong way, but still greater than zero.
Oh absolutely. Im not doing that at all. Im just sick of the go to excuse being that we're Iowa State and what should we really expect every time one of the programs falls on a rough patch
But you'd rather lose while scoring a touchdown than win on only field goals?
Fine. I agree it was a dumb thing to say. But that wasn't the point you were making. You said it would have been better if he had said 'some of the fans'. Even if he had said 'some of the fans', he would have still been deflecting.
I've said this before, but I'm going to keep harping on it. When people are upset about something, they deflect. He should have known better. But he was pissed and said it. No one with half a brain should think he's cool with scoring 9 points on Saturday. Frankly the fact that he DID deflect, makes me think he knows there is an issue.
Gilbert is not the problem. The offense IS the problem at this point. Settling for FGs will lose you a lot of games. Every kicker has bad days (except Justin Tucker).... Gilbert is going to be good. He will win us some games with his leg in the future. Gotta get the ball in the endzone if you wanna win more.
