Poor Hawksters - Schadenfreude

[EIClone]

That is not rational nor is it what I said.

Hardly anything you said is rational.

 

[CyTwins]

or making fun of you for losing to the SunBelt runner up by 3 scores

The sunbelt runner up was better than you. We were better than any team in the sunbelt. That seems to upset you

 

[cycloner29]

I'm still making fun of you for losing to them.

Kinda like we are after seeing the parents at the B1G office protesting to let their little boys play football. Even funnier that the offices were closed when they did it. That there was funny!

 

[acoustimac]

by 1 to the #10 team in the country. It was frustrating but no shame in it.

sadly...what you should feel bad about is your ignorance. Sun Belt “owning” the Big 12? You can make excuses for your own team losing to a semi-decent northwestern squad, and yet K State losing to a Sun Belt team while being devastated by Covid and Iowa State losing to a Sun Belt team while playing the absolute worst they possibly could (not just one mistake like Iowa made v NW) seems to make sense in your alternate universe.

 

[VeloClone]

sadly...what you should feel bad about is your ignorance. Sun Belt “owning” the Big 12? You can make excuses for your own team losing to a semi-decent northwestern squad, and yet K State losing to a Sun Belt team while being devastated by Covid and Iowa State losing to a Sun Belt team while playing the absolute worst they possibly could (not just one mistake like Iowa made v NW) seems to make sense in your alternate universe.

Yeah, it came out afterward that the team had had it's own issues in camp and several players had less than a handful of practices. But Campbell isn't one to make excuses so it never made the headlines or the national discussion.

 

[GTO]

Every Hok fan right now:

 

[jctisu]

I actually don't think there was much wrong with the BCS formula and kind of wish they would go back to that.

Yeah honestly it wasn’t that bad for the most part. Sometimes it would get a little wonky but overall not bad aside from only the top-2 making it. I think the committee has bias for sure toward certain teams but this year I thought overall they did a pretty decent job aside from a couple of teams.

 

[qwerty]

Rank these teams in order from best to worst for this past season:

Illinois
Michigan St.
Minnesota
Nebraska
Oregon
Penn St.
Purdue
Wisconsin

I wasn't trying to be funny or snarky. I was just curious how people (especially Hawk fans) would rank those teams since they were stating that Oregon was so crappy. I would go best to worst.

Oregon - Wisconsin - Penn St. - Minnesota - Michigan St. - Nebraska - Purdue - Illinois

 

[Frak]

That's not 100% untrue. However after 2021 we are required to be back to 85. Therefore any loss caused by players getting an extra year will be mainly in the coming year. So far we've only seen guys move on that are looking for more playing time or aren't likely to get it here. What they are leaving out is every school in college football has this same opportunity so it may not be greener elsewhere.

Looking at the seniors returning we have 4 players and a kicker. (Joking, sort of)

PK- Assalley, we've had a transfer and a comitt come in to compete.

TE- Allen, losing one of our big three opens up snaps for others and allows Moore a redshirt option.

LT- Foster, This is probably where the statement could be true in the future. However, what it really appears to be doing is give the guys younger than Treiber and Ramos another year in the system before an open competition in 2022.

FS- Eisworth, losing White at SS allows our most ready guy in the wings to step into a starting role. So I doubt Eisworth returning would do anything more than push guys that are likely to get passed by a younger player to move on.

And remember this quite possibly convinced some guys to move on which opened a scholarship for Rory Walling.

Yeah, I don't see the pipeline as being crazy full at the top. It's a couple of spots. And bolstered a little by guys like Kolar, Rose, Purdy that could have went pro. ISU was always going to be Senior heavy next fall. And they were likely to take a step back in 2022. The thing is, instead of starting RSFR or RS Sophs to replace Purdy, Kolar, Allen, Uwazarike, Eisworth in 2021, you're starting RS Sophs or RS JRs to replace them in 2022. I guess we'll see if we have guys that leave for the portal this spring, but a good portion of them will be in a rotation and see plenty of time. DL, LB, TE will all have a rotation. It's the staff's job to get the younger players ready to play and keep the starters fresh for what will be a long season.

 

[VeloClone]

Yeah, I don't see the pipeline as being crazy full at the top. It's a couple of spots. And bolstered a little by guys like Kolar, Rose, Purdy that could have went pro. ISU was always going to be Senior heavy next fall. And they were likely to take a step back in 2022. The thing is, instead of starting RSFR or RS Sophs to replace Purdy, Kolar, Allen, Uwazarike, Eisworth in 2021, you're starting RS Sophs or RS JRs to replace them in 2022. I guess we'll see if we have guys that leave for the portal this spring, but a good portion of them will be in a rotation and see plenty of time. DL, LB, TE will all have a rotation. It's the staff's job to get the younger players ready to play and keep the starters fresh for what will be a long season.

I know it doesn't fit the style of play, but it would be nice to have a few ISU blowouts so they can put guys who don't regularly play out there and keep them hungry and a little bit happy.

 

[Blandboy]

It took your win over a crappy Oregon team to move into the top 10.

BUT, Oregon had more wins than losses.

 

[amishclone]

We have lost 5 in row to Iowa yet talk crap to them. We are their little b&tch until we can prove we can beat them

Well they were scared to play us this year. Them and their bloated pansy conference

 

[Bob f]

Oregon is absolutely horrible for a NY6 game. Every other NY6 team that would have smoke them just like ISU did.

You should get a hobby, girlfriend or counseling.

 

[BCClone]

I think this proves that we should all take the polls this year with a huge grain of salt.

You just ticked off Kirk. He is getting you banned from Iowa city so you don’t cost him 175k that he gets for being ranked 15th in the coaches poll. That same poll that has Iowa being ranked 4th by one poster, wonder who that is.

 

[inCyteful]

At least you are the first person on here that admitted that playing a crappy Oregon team in a NY6 bowl was disappointing. That isn't any fault of ISU, it is just what happens in a COVID year.

ISU and Alabama both got screwed with sub standard teams from sub standard conferences.

 

[Blandboy]

You should get a hobby, girlfriend or counseling.

Or. a hobby girlfriend who is a counselor.