AMES --- Mark Mangino is out a Iowa State's offensive coordinator. Paul Rhoads led off his weekly press conference with this bombshell on Monday morning. Iowa State quarterbacks coach Todd Sturdy will take over the offensive coordinator role for the rest of t...
AMES — ISU coach Paul Rhoads tackled the burning question with two, forceful words. So, coach, will backup quarterback Joel Lanning play more snaps Saturday at No. 2 Baylor? “He will,” Rhoads intoned. Enough said? Hardly. Fans have been clamoring for more Lanning for weeks....
AMES --- For about 25 minutes, visions of the Cyclones stunning TCU seemed realistic. And then that blasted second half had to be played.Iowa State scored 21 points in the game’s first 11 minutes and actually led the third-ranked Horned Frogs by a touchdown at th...
AMES --- There were, as always, positives and negatives for the Iowa State football team in their 45-21 loss to TCU Saturday night.The Cyclones hung right with the No. 3 team in the nation for the first half while taking chances and not being scared to take a ris...
AMES — Trevone Boykin will make big plays. Josh Doctson will likely shake free of coverage — or flat out beat it — more than once.Boom and gloom for Iowa State fans? We’ll see. Simply put, the heavily disfavored Cyclones face a bona fide behemoth as No. ...
AMES --- Iowa State offensive coordiantor Mark Mangino is seeing good things from backup quarterback Joel Lanning, but that doesn't mean he has given up on starter Sam Richardson. Mangino expects Richardson to bounce back from his poor performance against Texas Tech...
AMES — Talk about responsibility.Jamison Lalk, ISU’s former fill-in at center, fully embodies the term. The 6-foot-6, 304-pound fifth-year senior not only makes the calls along the offensive line, helping to spark the Cyclones’ resurgent running game. ...
AMES --- Last season, the tight end was a staple of the Iowa State offense with All-Big 12 performer E.J. Bibbs manning the position. Through three games in 2015, the tight end had essentially disappeared from the stat sheet.Until Saturday’s 38-13 win over Kansas, a C...
AMES --- First things first, let me give credit where it is due. Iowa State did exactly what it was supposed to do in a 38-13 victory over the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday.We can all nitpick – and I will do that in this column – but all week long, the convers...
AMES — Sam Richardson didn’t flinch when asked about the next stage of development for Iowa State’s offense.“The red zone was big,” Iowa State’s senior quarterback said Tuesday when looking back at a 30-23 double-overtime loss at Toledo. “It was k...
