Williams and Blum Looking Back Ideas

[madguy30]

Sure but having a better offense in general probably avoids those situations all together.

Wasn't it one of the better offenses in school history?

Both years they were a decent team, one year got breaks, one year didn't.

It's really about that simple.

The retrospect of both '20 and '21 severely glosses over the realities of both seasons.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Wasn't it one of the better offenses in school history?

Both years they were a decent team, one year got breaks, one year didn't.

It's really about that simple.

The retrospect of both '20 and '21 severely glosses over the realities of both seasons.

Ya I didn't remember it that way but I acknowledge there were breaks that went our way. I felt like a lot was left on the table with deficiencies in scheme and play calling. The line has been ass for a while though so it might not have mattered much. Also, our history with offense doesn't really say much when it's the best in history. It's probably low mid compared to good offensive schools.

 

[madguy30]

The Iowa game that year set the tone. If I remember right, wasn't didn't Hall have a shoulder injury for that game, it got hit and that is why he fumbled inside the Iowa 5 yard line? Also, wasn't Charlie Kolar injured or banged up for that game and ineffective too?

The game I want to see covered was the 2019 Iowa game. Such a strange day. Game Day was there for the first time, crowd was hyped beyond belief, weather delays, crazy plays during the game, a ghost holding call late in the 4th that bailed Iowa out. If there was ever an Iowa game that we lost where it looked like we clearly were the better team, that was it. Anyway, I would to get insights about that game/day.

Breece fumbled the ball because he held it off the torso for easy pickings.

And he's still waiting for the check down to gain about 30 yards while Purdy played 500 in the middle of the field.

Details and what not.

 

[CyGuy5]

Wasn't it one of the better offenses in school history?

Both years they were a decent team, one year got breaks, one year didn't.

It's really about that simple.

The retrospect of both '20 and '21 severely glosses over the realities of both seasons.

It cannot be said enough just how awful Tom Manning was. I pretty much blame him for all things 2021. 2019 was pretty disappointing too, so in retrospect it’s surprising we figured it out for a year

 

[1TwistedCyclone]

Might not be as interesting for the younger crowd, but a look back at the 1996 Big Eight Conference men's basketball tournament. The final Big Eight tournament. Great run by our Cyclones to end as champs.

 

[cayin]

It cannot be said enough just how awful Tom Manning was. I pretty much blame him for all things 2021. 2019 was pretty disappointing too, so in retrospect it’s surprising we figured it out for a year

2019, we had 7 false starts in the bowl game. SEVEN!!!!

 

[Al_4_State]

2021 was awful. I was still in high school for the choke job the 05 football team had, so that is a little foggier for me. My vote is that 2021 was the most disappointing football season of my lifetime. Winning a North Division Championship would have been pretty cool, but in reality, that was a team that at best had a shot at maybe 9-3 and would have played as a double digit dog to Vince Young's Texas, and probably would have lost as ugly as that Colorado team did that year. But that '21 team had so much talent and in theory should have had enough to challenge to play in if not win the conference that year. Too much disappointment.

That 2005 team should have been 11-0 going into the Big 12 title game.

They would have been smoked by Texas, but likely still made a BCS bowl. Just an utter waste. They were better than every team they played that year.

 

[ema28]

Throw the John Neal game in that one as well. Hearing the crowd chant rapist full throat at Pierre Pierce is one of the more surreal sporting experiences I've ever had. Crowd was really fired up and angry for that game and then Neal blew the roof off.

That was the angriest Hilton crowd I ever witnessed

 

[madguy30]

It cannot be said enough just how awful Tom Manning was. I pretty much blame him for all things 2021. 2019 was pretty disappointing too, so in retrospect it’s surprising we figured it out for a year

What year was it 'figured out'?

 

[madguy30]

That 2005 team should have been 11-0 going into the Big 12 title game.

They would have been smoked by Texas, but likely still made a BCS bowl. Just an utter waste. They were better than every team they played that year.

That season was just one big flinch.

 

[chuckd4735]

Between Haluska and the rapist the chants never quit that night.

Two separate games. The Pierce game was the 2003-2004 season (game was played in January in the middle of conference play) and the Haluska game was the 2005-2006 season.

 

[CRcyclone6]

Might not be as interesting for the younger crowd, but a look back at the 1996 Big Eight Conference men's basketball tournament. The final Big Eight tournament. Great run by our Cyclones to end as champs.

I'm all in on this. No expectations that year and to come away with the last Big Eight tournament title and 2nd rd of NCAAs. That conference tourney was intense. Two, four, and one pt victories.

 

[singsing]

The way he was acting during the Texas game looked like he was on something other than marijuana.

Watching replay he looks to be tripping on acid or maybe a high dosage of pain killers mixed with some sort of amphetamine?

 

[Al_4_State]

The 2017 OU football game is good but I'd also like an in depth look into the 1.5 weeks before that, or even the build up to Park's swan song in that glorious flop against a very beatable Texas team in a game that was very winnable despite how weird it was.

Was he already on thin ice? Did the other players have to babysit him to keep him in check?

The full story on Park would be interesting, but I doubt we ever hear it and that's probably ok.