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David Ubben driving me crazy

Iowa State has held nine straight opponents to 30 points or less in regulation. That includes Tech, Okie State, OU, K-State from a year ago. The Tech offense is good, but Iowa State's D isn't just a flash in the pan. Either team getting to 40 will surprise me.
 
Being a conference blogger for ESPN is probably a bit of a thankless job. Someone like CW or Blum know that if they skew a little Cyclone positive their audience will almost always be happy. A guy whose coverage is truly national probably doesn't spend enough time covering any one team or conference to truly draw a lot of animosity. But a guy like Ubben, who is watched closely by 10 fanbases because all he does is cover their conference is almost guaranteed to have 5 of those fanbases ****** at him at any time based on who he perceives to be the favorites or power teams in the conference.
 
MNCyGuy said:
Being a conference blogger for ESPN is probably a bit of a thankless job. Someone like CW or Blum know that if they skew a little Cyclone positive their audience will almost always be happy. A guy whose coverage is truly national probably doesn't spend enough time covering any one team or conference to truly draw a lot of animosity. But a guy like Ubben, who is watched closely by 10 fanbases because all he does is cover their conference is almost guaranteed to have 5 of those fanbases ****** at him at any time based on who he perceives to be the favorites or power teams in the conference.
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He'd help himself with iowa state fans by merely making it to iowa state a single time during the season.
 
Bigman38 said:
I could care less about his predictions, they are usually pretty predictable.

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But would it kill him to do more than mention us once, while talking about Tuberville, in the Big 12 primer?

Texas Tech at Iowa State (7 p.m., Fox College Sports): Last week, the teacher (Bill Snyder) got the best of his pupil (Bob Stoops) for just the second time ever when K-State beat Oklahoma. This week, Tommy Tuberville will try to duplicate Snyder's feat and beat his former defensive coordinator Paul Rhoads for the first time as Texas Tech coach. The Red Raiders are leading the nation in total defense after finishing 114th in 2011. How long can they keep it up? We'll find out as conference play starts for the Red Raiders.
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How does he manage to make a game between ISU and TT about K State? I quit reading his blog as he makes no attempt to educate himself about the whole conference. Just gets his little undies all in a bunch for any current trend that is happening. The depth of his coverage is surface at best.
 
Bigman38 said:
I could care less about his predictions, they are usually pretty predictable.

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But would it kill him to do more than mention us once, while talking about Tuberville, in the Big 12 primer?

Texas Tech at Iowa State (7 p.m., Fox College Sports): Last week, the teacher (Bill Snyder) got the best of his pupil (Bob Stoops) for just the second time ever when K-State beat Oklahoma. This week, Tommy Tuberville will try to duplicate Snyder's feat and beat his former defensive coordinator Paul Rhoads for the first time as Texas Tech coach. The Red Raiders are leading the nation in total defense after finishing 114th in 2011. How long can they keep it up? We'll find out as conference play starts for the Red Raiders.
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I'm afraid we need to use...MATH - YouTube
 
alarson said:
Agreed. A mediocre offense that can chew up clock and keep the defense from being on the field the entire day can still win in this conference. At some point though if you give too many possessions to most of the better offenses in this conference, they will put up points against even against the better defenses. We also have a weapon in our punter that gives us a field position advantage, making that our defensive advantage even more-so as we are much less likely to give Tech many short fields.
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I agree with your premise but I would suggest that an offense that can chew up the clock is better than mediocre! If an offense can do that it implies that they can move (run) the ball well and if you can do that...you can score! I do agree that we shouldn't need a high-powered offense if our defense is as strong as some suggest. I just don't know that we have enough evidence to predict how strong our defense will be during the conference portion of our schedule.
 
If we score in the 40s it will have more to do with your offense not sustaining drives and less to do with your defense, IMO. This would give our offense more opportunities to put points on the board.

I personally think our 7 points last year is more of an anomaly, if you look at the history between our schools we score pretty high, with the lowest outside of last year being 17 in 2002.

I think Tech will score somewhere in the low to mid 30's this go around, as long as we don't completely implode on O like we did last year.
 
brentblum said:
Iowa State has held nine straight opponents to 30 points or less in regulation. That includes Tech, Okie State, OU, K-State from a year ago. The Tech offense is good, but Iowa State's D isn't just a flash in the pan. Either team getting to 40 will surprise me.
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You didn't hear from the Tech fans how their team did against Lincoln High, Lincoln was at a disadvantage with all the turmoil but Tech fans think the blowout is a sign of a national championship team? The Tech dumbasses on this site will tell you their offense is the second coming of "the best show on turf" and their defense is 85 Bears esk. Can't wait for Knott and Klein to get ahold of the Doege kid!
 
CLONECONES said:
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AND WE'RE GONNA RISE UP AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSIVE ESTABLISHMENT AND SMASH STUFF WITH THE PEOPLE'S HAMMER
 
IcSyU said:
I wouldn't consider us a "top" Big 12 defense at all. Linebackers we have one of the top 3 groups. Defensive backs and defensive line I'd easily put us in the bottom 5.
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I disagree. Defensive backs are a top 6 group. D line may rank near the bottom talent wise, but their depth keeps them from being too much of a liability. We not may be a top defense overall, but we are definitely top half of the conference
 
It's one guy's opinion. If we win, he might finally learn to take the Cyclones at home against comparable competition.
 
Dave must've had his ISU application rejected. That's the only reason I can think of for his continuous brushing aside of any ISU accomplishment. And it isn't hard to get into ISU, either.
 
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