Schedule

[hoosman]

I know this has been talked about before. We are at a big disadvantage. Iowa, UConn, Utah, Okie, Ok State, Texas, Missouri, A & M, KSU. We were blown out in 3 games this year. What bird-brain would schedule all these teams in one season? Being 5-7 gets us nowhere. If we don't go to a bowl game, we drop down a notch in recruiting.

OK. So we are stuck with the hardest schedule in the country. Doesn't that mean we should have a bye week? Our own coach even said that we skipped some practices because we didn't have a bye week. We will never have a deep bench. Not having a bye week probably cost us the Colorado game and the Missouri game.

We are not going to go bowling with our suicidal schedule, and there is no conference championship game, so why not extend our season by another week? This gives more practice time to the team, more time to rest and heal, and gives the fans one less week of waiting for next year.

 

[CrossCyed]

I know this has been talked about before. We are at a big disadvantage. Iowa, UConn, Utah, Okie, Ok State, Texas, Missouri, A & M, KSU. We were blown out in 3 games this year. What bird-brain would schedule all these teams in one season? Being 5-7 gets us nowhere. If we don't go to a bowl game, we drop down a notch in recruiting.

OK. So we are stuck with the hardest schedule in the country. Doesn't that mean we should have a bye week? Our own coach even said that we skipped some practices because we didn't have a bye week. We will never have a deep bench. Not having a bye week probably cost us the Colorado game and the Missouri game.

We are not going to go bowling with our suicidal schedule, and there is no conference championship game, so why not extend our season by another week? This gives more practice time to the team, more time to rest and heal, and gives the fans one less week of waiting for next year.

We don't play Utah, the UConn game is a return game from 2002, and we do have a bye week next year.

If you're talking about this year, you've got about half the teams wrong.

 

[cs6804]

I thought we dropped Utah for next year. I could be wrong, have not really looked at the schedule yet.

 

[ketelmeister]

Hard to take any Big 12 teams off the schedule...it's a round robin with all of them.

 

[The_Architect]

I know this has been talked about before. We are at a big disadvantage. Iowa, UConn, Utah, Okie, Ok State, Texas, Missouri, A & M, KSU. We were blown out in 3 games this year. What bird-brain would schedule all these teams in one season? Being 5-7 gets us nowhere. If we don't go to a bowl game, we drop down a notch in recruiting.

OK. So we are stuck with the hardest schedule in the country. Doesn't that mean we should have a bye week? Our own coach even said that we skipped some practices because we didn't have a bye week. We will never have a deep bench. Not having a bye week probably cost us the Colorado game and the Missouri game.

We are not going to go bowling with our suicidal schedule, and there is no conference championship game, so why not extend our season by another week? This gives more practice time to the team, more time to rest and heal, and gives the fans one less week of waiting for next year.

 

[CyFan61]

I know this has been talked about before. We are at a big disadvantage. Iowa, UConn, Utah, Okie, Ok State, Texas, Missouri, A & M, KSU. We were blown out in 3 games this year. What bird-brain would schedule all these teams in one season? Being 5-7 gets us nowhere. If we don't go to a bowl game, we drop down a notch in recruiting.

OK. So we are stuck with the hardest schedule in the country. Doesn't that mean we should have a bye week? Our own coach even said that we skipped some practices because we didn't have a bye week. We will never have a deep bench. Not having a bye week probably cost us the Colorado game and the Missouri game.

We are not going to go bowling with our suicidal schedule, and there is no conference championship game, so why not extend our season by another week? This gives more practice time to the team, more time to rest and heal, and gives the fans one less week of waiting for next year.

Why hello there Chicken Little... take a deep breath and then another look at our schedule:

Week 1: vs. Northern Iowa
Week 2: vs. Iowa
Week 3: @ UConn
Week 4: Bye week
Week 5: vs. Texas
Week 6: @ Baylor
Week 7: @ Mizzou
Week 8: vs. Texas A&M
Week 9: @ Texas Tech
Week 10: vs. Kansas
Week 11: @ Oklahoma
Week 12: vs. Oklahoma State
Week 13: @ Kansas State

We have to expect to win on Weeks 1 and 10. We should be in games on Weeks 2, 3, 6, 9, and 13. That's seven shots at wins right there - and that leaves five opportunities where people won't give us much of a chance for us to win (a la Texas this season).

Relax.

 

[Omaha Cy]

Cyfan61....KSU game should be played in Ames this year if i'm not mistaken.

 

[Cyclonin22]

Utah was supposed to be a home/home that we scheduled quite a while back. Fortunately, for us, Utah allowed us to drop their home game.

 

[cycfan1]

Cyfan61....KSU game should be played in Ames this year if i'm not mistaken.

Incorrect. The rescheduling changed a few locations that we had last year. Not we play Kansas at home two years in a row. The game is in Manhattan.

 

[bpmcclain]

The schedule will be tough, but we better get used to it. In the famous words of Dan Hawkins, its the big 12!

 

[fccy]

Why are you afraid of the schedule? When CPR took over, he said he wasn't, that we would play whoever was lined up in front of them.

If would like to see ISU buy it's way out of signed contracts, better start donating a lot more than what you are now (according to one link in a previous thread, we paid Utah $250,000, and that was with both teams wanting out of the contract due to conference realignment).

EDIT: We did have a bye week, it was just Thanksgiving week.

 

[bluestarcyclone]

its the big 12!

where everyone else but us has been scheduling 3-4 easy wins every year, to maximize wins (and chances of bowls, and greater bowl prospects past eligibility).

We schedule: one of the top teams in I-AA that has extra reason to want to beat us, a top 25 Iowa team, and then sometimes another BCS or BCS-level team. Dumb scheduling... shouldve bought out of he Utah game for 2010, and shouldve bought out of the @UConn game.

 

[theshadow]

We schedule: one of the top teams in I-AA that has extra reason to want to beat us, a top 25 Iowa team, and then sometimes another BCS or BCS-level team. Dumb scheduling... shouldve bought out of he Utah game for 2010, and shouldve bought out of the @UConn game.

You have Bruce to thank for UConn and Utah appearing on the schedule in the first place. You also have him to thank for alienating a bunch of donors -- the people that could have helped ISU buy out of these games.

UConn was just getting into I-A when ISU agreed to play them initially.
Utah was no slouch, but certainly not top 10 material.

 

[cyclonedave25]

Week 1: vs. Northern Iowa
Week 2: vs. Iowa
Week 3: @ UConn
Week 4: Bye week
Week 5: vs. Texas
Week 6: @ Baylor
Week 7: @ Mizzou
Week 8: vs. Texas A&M
Week 9: @ Texas Tech
Week 10: vs. Kansas
Week 11: @ Oklahoma
Week 12: vs. Oklahoma State
Week 13: @ Kansas State

We have to expect to win on Weeks 1 and 10. We should be in games on Weeks 2, 3, 6, 9, and 13. That's seven shots at wins right there - and that leaves five opportunities where people won't give us much of a chance for us to win (a la Texas this season).

Relax.

I'd like to add Week 5 in the list of games "we should be in". I actually think we have just as good of shot, if not better shot at beating Texas in Ames, than we do in winning at A&M, at Baylor, or Iowa. I don't see Texas being world beaters next year, plus our players would love nothing more than to beat them twice in a row.

 

[bluestarcyclone]

You have Bruce to thank for UConn and Utah appearing on the schedule in the first place. You also have him to thank for alienating a bunch of donors -- the people that could have helped ISU buy out of these games.

UConn was just getting into I-A when ISU agreed to play them initially.
Utah was no slouch, but certainly not top 10 material.

No argument there... but theres also 10 years in between to make changes to that schedule. November 24, 2002 mightve been a good day to make the UConn change..

 

[pulse]

If you start buying out of your non-con home-home away games, nobody will trust to schedule a non-con game with you.

 

[CyForPresident]

It is what it is at this point. If ISU can pay off guys like Robert McFarland and Nick Nurse, but wont buy wins then its their own fault for not bowling. They have no one to blame but themselves.

 

[AWOL2000]

How many of you have ever had to put together a schedule? It's not as easy as you thinks. Sometimes you take a game because you know the money will be there (Iowa). Sometimes you schedule someone who is not very good at the time and they get good by the time the game comes (UCONN). And sometimes you schedule a game because nobody else will play you or is available with the dates you have open. You can **** and moan all you want (this is CycloneFanatic after all and... it's your perogative... gonna do what you wanna do... it's your perogative...) but it isn't going to change. We can't afford to buy out of contracts everytime somebody gets good. The only reason we got out of the Utah game is because they needed out too. If we were a program with Texas money then sure we could get away with it but we're not... at least not yet...

 

[theshadow]

If we were a program with Texas money then sure we could get away with it but we're not... at least not yet...

If ISU had Texas money then there would be no home-and-home series with mid-major teams. ISU would just pony up the $700-800K** to bring in some slap team one time for a beatdown. Do that twice per year. Repeat every year.

**And remember, the bidding war for these guarantee/buy games is out of hand. The mid-majors and I-AA teams have the big boys over a barrel. They know the BCS schools want wins, and are willing to pay for it. Supply and demand.

 

[CyForPresident]

How many of you have ever had to put together a schedule? It's not as easy as you thinks. Sometimes you take a game because you know the money will be there (Iowa). Sometimes you schedule someone who is not very good at the time and they get good by the time the game comes (UCONN). And sometimes you schedule a game because nobody else will play you or is available with the dates you have open. You can **** and moan all you want (this is CycloneFanatic after all and... it's your perogative... gonna do what you wanna do... it's your perogative...) but it isn't going to change. We can't afford to buy out of contracts everytime somebody gets good. The only reason we got out of the Utah game is because they needed out too. If we were a program with Texas money then sure we could get away with it but we're not... at least not yet...

Not entirely true, ISU had to pay $250,000 to get out of next years game.

At this point, I don't care. If ISU wants to make things hard on themselves, that's fine. Just don't call me and expect any money for a 2 or 3 win team.