you fill up your recruiting classes with guys that have no other BCS offers. Iowa sucks and they are pounding us on both sides of the line.
Stupid. Lazy. (talking about you)
I htink having our starting center injured in both games has really hurt our O-line. Sam and the receivers have had little opportunity to get in any semblance of rhythm.
You can attack the messenger but the message is correct
B got a ball throw his way, made a guy miss and took it to the house. It's not talent it's play calling...
I don't know if I agree that pointing to one long play, where they missed a tackle means we have talented players.
Iowa is not exactly loaded with talent, although I must admit that Kirk has put a lot of players into the league.
However, when I look at their position groups versus ours, I don't see a lot of Cyclone wins.
DL: Iowa by a long shot
LB: Iowa by a long shot (last year we had a better group, but that was our best ever)
Secondary: Push, possibly advantage Iowa
Punter: ISU
Kicker: Iowa
QB: Iowa
RB's: Iowa
OL: Iowa by a long shot
TE: Push
WR: Push
simmer acgsclone.... We have played out of our a** with two star recruits for the last five years solely because of one man, CPR... he is slowly getting legit recruits and we will contend with a big 12 title some day if we can hold on to CPR. We r the red headed step child of the big 12 we will never have 4 and 5 star recruits lining up at our door. We gotta out coach and out play our opponents each week. We need to clean the closet out (coach mess) before we get there... It will happen gotta have patience
Bottom 1/4th? I'm pretty sure we have finished last pretty much every year under Rhoads.Man, I really want to believe this, but facts are facts. We consistently finish in the bottom 1/4 of the conference in recruiting rankings (pretty much since they started tracking such things). It's no surprise that's where we usually end up in the standings as well.
I don't know if it's lack of talent or poor schemes/coaching, but I haven't seen so many guys look so completely lost on offense in one game in a long time. Sam throwing one direction, WR turning the other.... WR not breaking off routes on obvious blitzes...... OL not knowing who to block in space on the 4th and 4 bubble screen..... just so many examples. Like I said, players or coaches?
Man, I really want to believe this, but facts are facts. We consistently finish in the bottom 1/4 of the conference in recruiting rankings (pretty much since they started tracking such things). It's no surprise that's where we usually end up in the standings as well.
I don't know if it's lack of talent or poor schemes/coaching, but I haven't seen so many guys look so completely lost on offense in one game in a long time. Sam throwing one direction, WR turning the other.... WR not breaking off routes on obvious blitzes...... OL not knowing who to block in space on the 4th and 4 bubble screen..... just so many examples. Like I said, players or coaches?