The Best Team Lost...Again

[adjl]

I'm tired of it happening, but TOE has to be the luckiest group I've ever seen. I went back and watched some of it again (as painful as it was) and it just jumps off the screen how much better we are than them. Yet somehow, we would have some bogus penalty, or some other crazy play to kill our momentum. I feel like we would beat them 9 out of 10 times, but it's their Superbowl, so they can have it and be mediocre all year. Let's get to the Big 12 title game.

 

[CyVoodoo]

It was so bad it was a statistical aberration.

 

[srjclone]

Another ISR thread talking about the game?

 

[DeereClone]

You make your own luck - they are more disciplined and detailed than we are.

 

[Walden4Prez]

You make your own luck - they are more disciplined and detailed than we are.

I was going to say something similar. Great teams don't let 1 or 2 plays make or break the game for them. We aren't there.....YET.

 

[Dr.bannedman]

omg is itsaturday yet

 

[iahawks]

It was so bad it was a statistical aberration.

Last I heard special teams count too. ISU had the following mishaps on Special Teams.

Tried to return a kickoff and got tackled at about the 12 with a penalty so they start on the six and go three and out.

On the ensuing punt, the kicker punted a low short kick that Raigaini returned to the 25 yard line that setup Iowa's only TD drive of the game mostly on the legs of Stanley.

The obvious punt return "Butt Muff".

Iowa also punted extremely well, went 4/4 on FGs and covered punt and kick returns really well too.

Special teams were the difference in this close game.

 

[DeereClone]

I was going to say something similar. Great teams don't let 1 or 2 plays make or break the game for them. We aren't there.....YET.

We have improved drastically under Campbell and are 90% of the way there. Just need to clean up a few things and we are a legit Top 20 team. If we don't we look like a 6-6 team.

 

[Peter]

Good lord. Please close this thread before the Hawk trolls find it.

 

[JM4CY]

 

[VeloClone]

Nice job, OP. This is just the line of thinking that hawk fans think all Cyclones have and you have just served up a thread to prove it for them when in reality it is just a few delusional fans.

 

[Jer]

The better team is the one that finds a way to win.

 

[CloneLawman]

Good lord. Please close this thread before the Hawk trolls find it.

Are you certain that one of them didn't start it?

 

[NickTheGreat]

Threads like this make us look bad. We were out-coached and out-executed.

And out scored.

 

[Gonzo]

I'm tired of it happening, but TOE has to be the luckiest group I've ever seen. I went back and watched some of it again (as painful as it was) and it just jumps off the screen how much better we are than them. Yet somehow, we would have some bogus penalty, or some other crazy play to kill our momentum. I feel like we would beat them 9 out of 10 times, but it's their Superbowl, so they can have it and be mediocre all year. Let's get to the Big 12 title game.

Please never change.

 

[Clonefan94]

Depends what you mean by "Best" I guess you could make an argument for talent. The stats show we moved the ball a lot better, at the end of the day though, they were a "better" disciplined team and in this game, that's what mattered. If we are going to continue to play sloppy, we have to put a lot more points on the board. If you keep a game close, anything can happen and usually, the "best" disciplined team will come out on top. So personally, I don't agree with the OP.

 

[adjl]

I was going to say something similar. Great teams don't let 1 or 2 plays make or break the game for them. We aren't there.....YET.

It was a weird game with weird circumstances. I honestly think we beat them most times, but things just always seem to fall their way in this game.

 

[adjl]

Last I heard special teams count too. ISU had the following mishaps on Special Teams.

Tried to return a kickoff and got tackled at about the 12 with a penalty so they start on the six and go three and out.

On the ensuing punt, the kicker punted a low short kick that Raigaini returned to the 25 yard line that setup Iowa's only TD drive of the game mostly on the legs of Stanley.

The obvious punt return "Butt Muff".

Iowa also punted extremely well, went 4/4 on FGs and covered punt and kick returns really well too.

Special teams were the difference in this close game.

Fair point but that's the only aspect where we were outplayed. We should've won by 2 touchdowns still. Some blown calls, and blown opportunities, bad snaps, weird circumstances just stopped our momentum. It was so easy to move the ball, and if they ever called holding on Iowa, I'm not sure they would've had more than 5 first downs all night.

 

[Dandy]

Can we stop threads from being created in the ISR forum until December when the basketball games come around?

 

[Clonefan32]

Can you imagine 5 days removed feeling the need to get this off your chest? We lost. Move on.