The jawing, celebrating, swagger...
- Thread starter Chipper
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Coach Rhoads needs to spend some time having the players practice the way the hand the ball to official after EVERY play in a polite manner. He needs to have some players demostrate in practice the acceptable level of post play celebration for different situations. He needs to end ALL trash talking to the opposing team and run a class act. This is not a difficult thing to do if you emphasize it. Make some rules and stick to them.
The best way for a coach to deal with this is to sit players. Unfortunately, we don't have the depth to handle that kind of punishment at this point, look what happened when LJ got sat down for one play. This is just the character of this team, love it or hate it, it is what it is. Were gonna fight this problem every week. It's something that could be absorbed if we didn't have turnovers like a 5th grade pee wee team. Unfortunately it gets highlighted when everything that can go wrong does.
How many times do you need to be told you're wrong before you'll start believing it?
A LOT of fans have not been happy with our antics all year long, regardless of winning or losing. Go back and read all the posts.
And to the person that said there's nothing a coach can do about it and that these are just college kids... that is the biggest bunch of BS I've ever heard. So you're saying that Paul Rhoads has lost total control of his team and there's nothing he can do about it? Kids will be kids I guess, right?
Sit these idiots if you have to. Nobody is above anyone else on this team. Get control of it. The inmates do NOT have to run the asylum, I'm sorry.
Texas rolled us last night, and I don't remember their players acting anywhere near as bad as ours. We're they confident, yes. Did they celebrate good plays with their teammates, yes. But I don't remember seeing the Texas players making some of the gestures and the headbutting that we did. And this is Texas! They have to have a lot of prima donna attitudes on that team, but it was us that looked like we had the prima donna's, not them.
I'll never understand talking **** when you're losing. Johnson's penalty would have been bad enough if ISU was up 13-0. But down 13-0? ******* asinine.
Totally agree with this. Sadly, one of the things I agree with most is the last part, being embarrassed to be a fan with stupid stuff like this. I get that players act different ways when your on a D1 stage like this against a team like Texas. When a team doesn't have the athletes that another does, the only way to win or have a shot is to play a good clean game and hope for a couple breaks. When stupid mistakes take you out of a game in a half is beyond stupid. What is so hard to understand for these kids? You have a free ride to college and you get to play in one of the better conferences in the NCAA. Is it too much to ask to show alittle class? Win or lose, you should be thankful to be in the position you are in and not make an *** out of yourself/team whenever you get a tackle, catch, touchdown, etc.
Yeah were not there yet. I don't mind a little celebration. There was a play where Latimer made a big hit and then ran back and lined up for the next one. That's what I would love to see. I can understand why our defense is confident but they can't get so caught up in the moment that we are getting penalties and extending drives.
Anyone stay long enough to see Lattimer and Tau'fo'ou (sp?) leaving the stadium without congratulating Texas? I'm sure some of you on your high horse are gonna shake your head at that. And when I said played competitively I didn't mean 1A Iowa High School Football.
Don't have an overly impressive one either. But I've played in front of quite a few people, in a very competitive environment. It's different when you play in front of lots of cheering people. You get emotional, you do "boneheaded" things
Do you actually watch college athletics? Everybody does this and its honestly become part of the game!
I just watched the replay of the game after being there last night because I didn't see the "head-butt" on the field. Leonard deserved the penalty for what he did but don't sit there and tell me Texas wasn't jawing the whole game!
Smack talk and emotional celebration is always going to be there, but just don't get caught doing stupid things and we'll be fine.
Why does this matter or why do you care? Is there a rule that says you have to shake the hand of every player on the other team? Over the years I've see alot of opponents leave the field without congratulating. :skeptical:
