Official "post"-Game Thread - Iowa @ ISU
- Thread starter Psyclone Brian
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Are you telling me that Its NOT gonna get better than this????
Well I guess I wont have to worry about saving my money for our bowl game after this season!!!!!!!
Good god, were you even watching the game today? It was our offensive ineptness, with no running game and the turnovers that lost this game today, not the D.
Our D played tough, and Burnham and the players are to be congratulated.
They did, however, keep calling pass plays when clearly they should have been running the ball.I didn't see the coaching staff out there throwing interceptions...
Defense played solid, we just had too many bad decisions/turnovers on offense. We don't have the perfect personnel for what our coaches want to do.
Funny story, I was in the second row of the upper deck at the 40. I had a VERY good view. If Stanzi had any decent touch at all, we lose by 100 holding all else constant. He missed a TON of WIDE OPEN receivers (Moeaki twice, DJK twice, and Stross once right off the top of my head...would you like me to pull it from the DVR box and post it on YouTube for you to view?).
The running game was NOT our problem. Passing the ball was beyond an issue. 190 yards on 5.6 yard per carry clip is NOT an issue. 3.4 yard per pass is so much more than an issue it's not even funny.
The defense played ok, but they still gave up 191 rushing yards at a 5.6 clip. That is NOT good at all. The worst stat I think the defense has: 8/13 on 3rd down conversions. That is absolutely awful.
I'm only through page two so far, but I can't believe people are so focused on the stupid onside kick. It didn't work, big deal. The quarterbacks threw five interceptions and A-Rob added a fumble. I think the onside kick was the least of our problems today.
kinda weird that the last time we scored a TD against Iowa Mac was the coach. 14 straight quarters. ouch
I agree, and if Rhoads had been here for the last three years, we perhaps would have a few of the Iowa kids wearing cardinal and gold, not black and gold (Sash, Wegher, Davis, etc.).
I'm tired. Arnaud played the worst game of his career, by a mile. I was hoping someone was going to tell him the guys in the white jerseys play for the other team.
That said, I think he's going to take something from the benching. The kid showed last year that he can play ball. He can pick himself up, man up, and move on, or he can join the long line of ISU QBs who started w/promise, but faded down the stretch of their careers. Everything he's done outside today suggests he'll do the former. One bad game does not a bad player make, and I hope Austen picks him self up and forgives himself. The season goes as he goes.
That said, I think he's going to take something from the benching. The kid showed last year that he can play ball. He can pick himself up, man up, and move on, or he can join the long line of ISU QBs who started w/promise, but faded down the stretch of their careers. Everything he's done outside today suggests he'll do the former. One bad game does not a bad player make, and I hope Austen picks him self up and forgives himself. The season goes as he goes.
Today we were whipped by a team which barely beat UNI on the Hawks own turf. Folks we need to realize that we are in a 4-5 year rebuilding process. Then we will be happy to just be getting to a bowl game and life will be good as a better than average football team. The next time an A.D. suggests firing the winningest coach in ISU football history so we can "go to the next level", perhaps the fan base will be less concerned about an A.D.'s ego and more concerned about the long term welfare of the football program.
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Monty, when are you going to own up to the fact you bagged on Mac worse than anyone on here. I just don't get you, I really don't.
go to sleep sunshine....
this is two bad games now for austin. i want him to succeed but with what he is showing its not happening and we need whats best for the program, and if its tiller so be it
He also had the most losses of any coach in ISU history as well, so I guess that makes him the "losingest" coach in ISU history too...
Then maybe the coaches should tweak their systems to fit the personnel on the team.
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I would suggest a Poll to see what the fans want...Austin Arnaud or Jerome Tiller running our "so called" spread offense!!!!!
Toledo 54 and Colorado 24.....Now thats a spread offense NOT a so called spread offense!!!!!
Chizik and Cael were hires of J.P. who were in the A.D. department with J.P. and they both said "see ya". These gentlement weren't flies, but if you can't see unhappiness with the A.D. department as a contributing factor in these departures; you must believe "words" as opposed to "actions". Obviously you can point to the words as "proof" and you might survive doing this short term. Long-term, however, I respectfully suggest you will be happier if you heed the wisdom of the saying "actions speak louder than words".
