I never understood how the players could take the hits off the old turf that they did. I played football and a normal tackle hurts enough. It was basically concrete . The other thing is the turf was so worn out. So it wasn't even new turn. It was matted down. It also made the Oklahoma players about a billion times faster.
Talk to me about Jim Walden
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I think this year. He was very thankful that Iowa State invited him and his kids back. He did a long interview that was posted in the Cycast app. I highly recommend it.
October 22, 1994. This is the game from Walden's final season that I'm referring to
1994 Iowa State Cyclones football team - Wikipedia
demoncore1031
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Anyone remember Geoff Turner from this era? He was fun to watch for a year before he transferred. I always thought he could have been an all time great.
His oldest son is starting his college football career (Nebraska Kearney) this year. Has 2 other sons that look like future College players.
His oldest son is starting his college football career (Nebraska Kearney) this year. Has 2 other sons that look like future College players.
Yes. White Rat.
Same class (I believe) as Calvin Branch. I believe both left Ames at same time (year 1 or 2 of Mac) and both had some coffee in NFL.
Got himself ineligible for an entire season, and then bounced.
I football camped there my senior year. We had a flag football game on the old turf practice field. I could feel my toe bones crunching through my tissue. Horrible stuff.
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I kinda saw him as a Brian Bosworth badass type. He and Branch did pretty good at Colorado State. Turner played for the Barnstormers for a few years, if I'm not mistaken.
Iowa State had the chance to hire John Cooper, a member of the famous Dirty Thirty team from the late 1950's, after Earle Bruce bolted for Ohio State (his alma mater) after the 1978 8-4 season. Cooper was a successful head coach at Tulsa and wanted to return to ISU his alma mater. The ISU administration was enamored with Oklahoma's success and opted to hired OU coordinator Donnie Duncan over Cooper. Duncan lasted 4 mediocre years and was succeeded by Criner and Walden, which begat the dark ages of Cyclone football. What might have been if Cooper had been hired after Earle Bruce and possibly followed by Bill Snyder somewhere in the early 90's. Could have been some great years of Cyclone football.
On the whole, Cooper was very good but not historically great at tOSU so who knows how he does at ISU. Probably at least consistently successful.
But that and not taking Snyder are such fumbles/'we are ISU' isms that it's kind of hard to comprehend.
Cooper was passed over in part because of some recruiting violations that occurred at Kansas while he was an assistant there.
There was 1980s Jim Walden and there was 1990s Jim Walden that seemed to be a very different coach with the triple option. He was one win shy of matching the current coaching staff's record against Iowa.
Every game and every play matters. Why have you posted 51,000 times here if it doesn't matter?
Say ISU takes cooper and we have decent success. Does fry have the success he does and how does that affect Snyder?
