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Tired of our "star" wide receiver, dropping every pass...and letting kicks bounce instead of catching them.

JN couldnt catch anything last year, I thought he was supposed to be better this year.

The dude should not see another minute until, he learns to catch, or they buy an extreme amount of super stick em.
Dude could be wearing Lester Hayes stick‘em and still wouldn’t catch it.
 
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And more frustrating than that is the fact that our offense doesn't work especially well against teams not named Iowa, so even the reasoning of "Iowa is just a bad matchup for us" falls flat.
It all starts with the o-line play IMO. Hopefully that trends up over the next couple years and I think it will. Up until a couple years ago our offense was fine.
 

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Did you watch the UNI game? He isn’t ready. JFC Kohl is not the answer right now. Say what you want about Dekkers but he absolutely f*cked this team!

No one is saying Kohl is “the answer”. They are saying we’re ****** either way so at least get him some game experience because Becht ain’t it.

JFC. I’ve seen this same “kohl isn’t the answer” reaction post 100 times and I don’t understand why people don’t understand.
 
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My family has been season ticket holders for 48 years. Leaving the game, I was frustrated and "tired" of seeing the same conservative game plan which included the "yards per pass attempt" and time it took to get a play started.
Purdy got his starting position at SF, in my opinion, because he had the best "yppa" over his competition.
 
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The title of this thread is absolutely perfect.... and nails how I'm feeling... just really tired... tired of it all honestly.

It's just so strange to me how obvious things are to those of us sitting in the stands or camping on our couches at home... but our coaches have no clue what's going on?

We've all said how you cannot win this game against Iowa by playing it in a phone booth and trying to out-Iowa Iowa. We all know that- it's obvious- but our coaching staff sets up a game plan year in and year out to try to do exactly that.
Tons of us on here yesterday during the game, said very early on, after watching us throw sideline out route after sideline out route across the field and staring them down that if we continue to do that Iowa will get a pick six. Hmmm... we kept on doing it, and guess what happened. Everyone saw it coming... except for CMC and Nate I guess?

We've all watched Jaylin Noel mentally screw up play after play for a couple years now... not knowing how to field punts, dropping passes, etc, etc... and he is now a Captain and continues to be back there botching up punt returns and kick returns, and continually dropping passes. This is also obvious to everyone that watches ISU football... but not to CMC? Yesterday Noel just assumed a kickoff was going into the endzone, and paid no attention to it. If that happened at Iowa, you'd likely never see that guy back there ever again.

How about our awesome last drive? Everyone, including Eric Heft and 60,000+ fans knew CMC was being played... but CMC and Nate had no clue. How is that possible? Iowa wanted nothing more than for us to eat up nearly the entire clock on that drive, and we simply obliged. The fans were booing you Matt, they knew what was happening, but you had a big smile on your face and were so proud of that drive. After the game Matt was asked what was different about that drive compared to the rest of our drives? Why were you able to move the ball on that drive? Matt said nothing was different. Really Matt? Iowa was playing prevent.. and GAVE you that drive moron. We all knew it!! But you didn't?? How?

I'm sure all of us watching that last 4th and 1 knew EXACTLY what was coming too... just like Iowa did. We are in shotgun with a RB standing next to Rocco... and our TE that lined up in the slot comes in motion and lines up in the fullback/h-back spot just behind the LT... hmmm... I wonder what's coming?? Yep a run up the middle with the TE in there to block. We all knew it... do you really think Iowa didn't??

And to top it all off... CMC says that's the best we've ever played in this rivalry since he's been here. Wut? Being down 17-0 was the best we can do? You were happy about that? I guess when winning doesn't matter, and you're trying to coach a lowly program like ISU where it's nearly impossible to have success (as you always say)... maybe this is the best we can play?? I sure hope not.

I just don't understand how we all see these obvious things, but our coaches seem to have no clue??
 

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Madguy30, did you go to Illinois and visit a dispensary? Because sharing is caring.:D

Ha. Well I'll just say I think ISU is closer than people think to doing some good things.

We as fans have watched plenty of rough Cyhawk games and then enjoyed some moments as the season went on.

I've seen more 'well at least CPR beat Iowa' takes over the last day than I can remember outside of Tornado Man.
 
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The lack of urgency is maddening. It's been around awhile now though. If you think back to Brock's senior year and all the slow starts, followed by furious late second half rallies that fell short....I don't know, it's like he always thinks we have 5 quarters or something.

This was a another key passage from Campbell's postgame comments:

Q: How tough a team is Iowa to come back on when they get up double digits on you?

A: You know, you don't want to get behind, but that's football, right? Like, it's gonna happen. To me, I was almost, like, waiting for it to happen at some point to our team and see how we responded and so that's college football in a nutshell. Like, it's "yeah, get off to a great start." You know, I chuckle - like you've heard me say it a million times, "okay, great, well we'd love to," but that's not always going to happen so how do you respond when you don't. And man I thought we passed a huge test there today.

Talk about an understatement. It's as if we're allergic to it.

Starts at 2:04 in the video.
 

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Some of you guys need to accept the fact that Iowa is a terrible matchup for us and move on. Yeah it sucks listening to all the Tavern hold but good god You this isn’t the whole season.

So just take the early season L? Don't expect Campbell and the offensive coaches to even try to change their game plan? These aren't volunteer YSF coaches. They're getting paid a **** ton of money. I don't think it's out of the realm to ask them to come with a little better effort and offensive approach against a tough opponent. I'd rather lose trying something different than watch Groundhog Day the 2nd week of September every year.
 

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Really dislike that quote from Campbell. Finding positives is perfectly fine, but trying to make things sound okay after that last quarter of football is weak. He doesn't seem to have that killer instinct that most football coaches do. It's odd.

I miss his quote from his first couple of years, about "**** programs are happy with 6 wins".
 

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This was a another key passage from Campbell's postgame comments:

Q: How tough a team is Iowa to come back on when they get up double digits on you?

A: You know, you don't want to get behind, but that's football, right? Like, it's gonna happen. To me, I was almost, like, waiting for it to happen at some point to our team and see how we responded and so that's college football in a nutshell. Like, it's "yeah, get off to a great start." You know, I chuckle - like you've heard me say it a million times, "okay, great, well we'd love to," but that's not always going to happen so how do you respond when you don't. And man I thought we passed a huge test there today.

Talk about an understatement. It's as if we're allergic to it.

Starts at 2:04 in the video.

He was 'waiting for it to happen at some point to our team'? Wow. Now he just assumes we're going to get a FG blocked, or throw a pick 6, etc?

It's as if he was happy to see us get down 17-0 just to see how we would respond. And we responded to being down 17 pts by running up the middle? Wow... great response coach!
 

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Some of you guys need to accept the fact that Iowa is a terrible matchup for us and move on. Yeah it sucks listening to all the Tavern hold but good god You this isn’t the whole season.
Doesnt have to be that way. Theyre a terrible matchup because we play right into their favorite style.

If you are dueling Inigo Montoya, you dont choose swords. Try hand-to-hand or a battle of wits.

Stop throwing Brer Kirk into the briar patch and thinking you are winning.
 
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He was 'waiting for it to happen at some point to our team'? Wow. Now he just assumes we're going to get a FG blocked, or throw a pick 6, etc?

It's as if he was happy to see us get down 17-0 just to see how we would respond. And we responded to being down 17 pts by running up the middle? Wow... great response coach!

I don't think he literally wants bad things to happen, but it's really weird to hear a coach of a team whose margin for error is already incredibly thin talk about how excited he is to see how his team responds when it's dug a hole for itself.

And to say we "passed the test"? By not quitting? Is that the standard now? Sheesh.
 

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Add to it the atmosphere in JTS has been killed by moving student section.

All in all yesterday was one of my least favorite ISU games of all time (and that’s saying something as a kid that went to most games in second half of 80s into 90s). I know the department needs money but it feels like everything that was good about Gameday gets gutted.

TV timeouts just suck the wind out of everything. My kid was keeping track how many times the ref with the clock went out on the field yesterday, and stopped counting at 13 with more than a quarter to play.