What was the beginning of the end?
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How quickly we can forget what was the elephant in the room. I figure this may explain in part why CPR got a year 7.
Yup the best defense since '05 wasted on Messingham and Klenakis' offense. Paul had no idea what he wanted the offense to look like and it cost him repeatedly. When he got here he preached about the value of a running quarterback and strong running game to control the clock. He had it in '09 with Arnaud and Robinson and made no attempt to repeat that strategy until the second half of the Baylor game this year.
I would go along with this.
Without a really good QB, you're toast, and Rhoads could never either recruit a great one to come here or develop any of the ones he had.
Look at Iowa this year. Overall, this year's Iowa team has less talent on it than last year's Iowa team. Worse on the OL, worse on the DL, worse at LB, etc. However, they are a lot better at QB. They found a gamer and a winner at QB in Beathard and it has made all the difference. If he were to go down, Iowa would be a .500 team at best and be struggling just to make a bowl like last year.
I went to Rendezvous and got some ribs and wasn't all that impressed. Saw Wally while I was in there. Maybe that's it.
The real beginning of the end was when the Big 12 started to fall apart. Harder schedule, talk about ISU having to move to the MAC when the Big 12 fell apart. there were a couple really bad recruiting classes and several good coaches bailed out.
I know people don't like to hear it but it was around this ^ time. I would argue it was even a few games before that. I'm going off memory so don't kill me but I think we had games as a ranked team vs Kansas State (loudest game I have ever in my life heard, ears were literally ringing every time ksu had a 3rd down, and WV after that who was ranked but beatable. Both **** d down our leg, deflating any hope we had for turning the corner that year.
The year after Herman left. Had a former player that didn't play much but was around cpr a lot that said he micromanaged nonstop. Actually didn't care for him that much, and it wasn't due to play time because he didn't expect much.
Klenakis came in and we tried to change lineman, dline man, what have you. We tried to run a system that we wanted instead of who are the best players we can get and how do we win games with that talent.
This is year we made the adjustments, especially after MM left, and basically did this.
In hindsight, CPR would have helped himself the most to have hired a guy out of his own pocket to deal with the normal play flow and situations and just been the rah rah PUb relations guy.
Klenakis came in and we tried to change lineman, dline man, what have you. We tried to run a system that we wanted instead of who are the best players we can get and how do we win games with that talent.
This is year we made the adjustments, especially after MM left, and basically did this.
In hindsight, CPR would have helped himself the most to have hired a guy out of his own pocket to deal with the normal play flow and situations and just been the rah rah PUb relations guy.
The 2013 season when it was clear how much of a gap in talent there was, and how the team got rung up by UNI.
Not sure why the Liberty Bowl still has so much clout; I can't think of too many bowls from the previous season that really impacted a program in the long run, or even the next season. A basic coaching/team sport principle is the idea to turn the page every week, so I'm not sure how a bowl appearance impacts a program for 3 years. If anything, it should have been a lesson on stronger fundamentals/preparation.
Not sure why the Liberty Bowl still has so much clout; I can't think of too many bowls from the previous season that really impacted a program in the long run, or even the next season. A basic coaching/team sport principle is the idea to turn the page every week, so I'm not sure how a bowl appearance impacts a program for 3 years. If anything, it should have been a lesson on stronger fundamentals/preparation.
CycloneErik
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True. Our record against what would be the Big 12 North is just as bad as our record against what would be the Big 12 South since the round robin happened.
And, of course, the whole losing to FCS schools thing.
Gotta say that was bad but barely putting up 300 yards on UNI was my cue. Quarterback change should have happened halftime of that game.
I agree Losing to schools Like UNI and North Dakota State was the beginning and the sat KState Meltdown was the end of the Paul Rhoads Era.
Needed better players. 4-6 Jucos every year with 3-4 being significant contribution. A couple of **** and 4-5 more *** every year.
Needed better assistant coaches.
Needed an easier schedule (SOS #40-60 not 5-20)
We were trying to invent the wheel not reinvent it because basically it had not been done before.
Needed better assistant coaches.
Needed an easier schedule (SOS #40-60 not 5-20)
We were trying to invent the wheel not reinvent it because basically it had not been done before.
