http://newsok.com/article/5567189
I would hate supporting a team that treats any loss as the end of the world.
I would hate supporting a team that treats any loss as the end of the world.
The defense was no better. It allowed the Cyclones to score 21 unanswered points. If Iowa State's basketball team does that, it's one thing. But its football team?
This made me lol
Agreed. If OU was mentally tough, they could have gone out there and won the game still but you could tell by their sideline and on field demeanor that they were rattled and frustrated. I still think they will make the playoffs but they need to be more mentally tough then that if they want to do anything in the post season. I would be furious with the OU team if I was a fan. They had the ball with a timeout and a few minuts to play and looked lost.If I were an OU fan (shudder) I would be most concerned of what I saw on the field more than on the scoreboard. We were just beating them up in the 4th Qtr. Players dragging themselves off the field, heads hung after every play. It is one thing to no execute and overlook an opponent, it is another thing to get physically beat up. CMC has done a great job of closing the physical gap and putting Big XII bodies on the field. ISU was tougher by a good measure.
Meh shes an OU homer. We are not the same ISU that we were in the 90's. Just keep winning and this stigma will fix itself. Besides we are just as harsh with our team when we lose. The writer bringing up the defensive unsportsman like penalty rings pretty true to our game last week.
That describes the majority of sports journalism.That article describes ISU's win over Nebraska in 2002 at "tripping up giants"? That game was #20 Nebraska at #19 Iowa State (and we beat 'em by 22 points). Maybe she will look past the name of the school the next time she writes an article like this. But seeing as she covers OU, I doubt it.
She also describes Ohio State's loss to 6-6 Virginia Tech in 2014 as a loss to a "strong program." The same with 5-7 Texas and 5-7 Nebraska in 2015. She's just looking at the name on the front of the jersey again with zero insight into the team. Really a bad, bad article.
Well bloated Chip Kelly also said this was more damaging to CFP hopes than OSUs loss to VT saying that was a good Virginia Tech team. No it wasn't. 6-7 in an ACC that had FSU, Clemson but little else. At the time it was mental gymnastics to get OSU in the CFP, and they are already going to work to try to make it happen again.
That and life is easier when you just accept that a good portion of college football talking heads know less than random message board posters.