no, no, no. It's obviously not the logo since we've been having these problems before we got the current one. It's more than likely our entrance music. :biggrin:New logo
What do we do to change our luck??
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New Logo???
That could be it. ISU has some very good MOJO using the late 70's decal, including the '07 win vs Iowa, which no one predicted.
ISU was on a good roll with Earl Bruce in the late 70's. Then, Woody Hayes punches that Clemson kid and Earl is Headed to Columbus. It appears to me that the Curse was in the process of Reversing, until the Woody Punch.
Any thoughts?????
That could be it. ISU has some very good MOJO using the late 70's decal, including the '07 win vs Iowa, which no one predicted.
ISU was on a good roll with Earl Bruce in the late 70's. Then, Woody Hayes punches that Clemson kid and Earl is Headed to Columbus. It appears to me that the Curse was in the process of Reversing, until the Woody Punch.
Any thoughts?????
Isn't it obvious what we need to do?
Change our entrance music, close in the south endzone, get a different pre game spirit routine, fix the loudspeakers, change the song we play between the 3rd and 4th quarters, get a bigger video board, stand more, sit more, etc, etc, etc.
I can remember many times that luck has bounced our way, many wins we've had because of crazy things. Two that stick out in my mind: Bates catch, and the Iowa game late in the year when Iowa intercepted the ball and preceded to fumble it giving us a first down.
Change our entrance music, close in the south endzone, get a different pre game spirit routine, fix the loudspeakers, change the song we play between the 3rd and 4th quarters, get a bigger video board, stand more, sit more, etc, etc, etc.
I can remember many times that luck has bounced our way, many wins we've had because of crazy things. Two that stick out in my mind: Bates catch, and the Iowa game late in the year when Iowa intercepted the ball and preceded to fumble it giving us a first down.
I totally agree:yes:......I've said the same thing for years:yes:....Bring back the late 70's logo...Just update it alittle bit but keep the colors that it was.
What we need to do is start a culture of winning among the players, fans, coaches and everyone else involved with the program. Every person that supports ISU that steps into Jack Trice should expect not just a narrow win, but a resounding victory for Iowa State football. What we need is for athletics to not give up on a coach because of one or two or three seasons. What we need is for a coach who won't give up on ISU because of one or two or three seasons. We need leadership for the team that will stick around for 10-20 years, not just to build one year's worth of potential, but to build recruiting contacts and start a pipeline for recruiting excellent players who currently are being taken by bigger name schools like Florida, Texas, and USC just to spend their college career sitting on the bench. I think that our current coach has what it takes, but we might just have to wait a couple years to realize it. I think that once his first class of recruits have reached their junior year, there will be some big changes in store for Iowa State football.
We need more playmakers. I never was convinced that we were deep at WR and now it's become our achilles heel. I think Arnaud's struggles are partly due to a lack of confidence in his receivers. He's also pressing because he has to know this is a good year to get something accomplished. Our OL is as good as we've had in a long time. We really need for A-Rob to get healthy or Arnaud is going to have a huge target on his back. I'm not giving up yet though as I think these guys still have some fight left in them.
Loved your text to KJ on Saturday. However, I told him to reply saying, "Try driving down and watching it and paying for it."
Cameron Dollar last second shot, charge/block call vs MSU, dead ball 3 pointer at KU, last second 3 from A and M, Hampton, Wesley Johnson, Mike Taylor leave program, last second basket that would have won the Big 8 conference tournament title but was waved off due to a ghost traveling call ect... football there has been a ton of bad luck, and weird things happen since Woody Hayes punched out a player. I'm not going to make a total list of the weirdness and bad luck, but here are some key ones in recent years. Field goal against Bama in bowl game, Wallace ruled out against FSU, overtime loss to Mizzou in 2004. Mizzou fumble in 2005 ruled played was dead. Had he fumble stood we win the game. We fumbled on the one yard in the same game. Overtime loss at NU 2005 in which ISU had a couple of chances to close the deal. One of which was a ball thrown right into Leaders hands that he dropped that would have won the game in overtime, Stevie Hicks getting hurt that year, Fumbling on the Baylor one yard line in 2005 not once, but TWICE, and of course the 4rth quarter meltdown and missed FG at KU in 2005.
I would say the curse began when ad lou mccullough got in a plane with coach earle bruce and flew to ohio state and got earle a new job...
It sure didnt help to hire coaches -duncan-criner & walden....
Curse theory no 2....Failure to hire Bill Snyder and forever lose to KState!!!
Dumbest move ever by ISU in football!!!!!! the curse flourished and grew after that dumb move!!!!!
Curse theory no 3....Hiring of Jamie Pollard who quickly fired dan mccarney reinstituting the curse causing all football hires by pollard to be failures!!!!
Boys with a history like that ....you better believe that bob believes their is a curse and its alive and well!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like the 2004 Red Sox, we need to cheat, and cheat well enough that nobody discovers the fact that we are cheating for a few years...
I believe that we swithched Coaches with Auburn and that brought GOOD KARMA to both ISU and Auburn Football.
Your "Not Hiring - Bill Snyder" thought makes Alot of sense to me and it completely explains the Block PAT.
So actually, the only Curse ISU has is the "Bill Snyder Hex" which dooms us to Forever lose to KSU. I can live with that, as long as we beat KU, NU, MU, CU, and the a few wins vs. the South.
Thankyou CF, I think we are alot closer to understanding the ISU Football Curse than we were when this thread started.
In Summary, ISU Football is on the Upswing, we are getting better, just don't plan on beating KSU.
