Yahoo article on the TT game

[isufbcurt]

Good insight into the TT game plan and what changed

The switch that nearly saved Iowa State football against Texas Tech: 'That was a unique challenge'

Inside the offensive adjustment on the fly that awoke the Cyclones in Lubbock … albeit a bit too late to escape the loss.

www.yahoo.com

 

[cyrocksmypants]

I think we’ve seen when you put the decisions more in Brock’s hands, the better we are for it. Seems like any time we start to go RPO heavy, the offense just starts rolling.

 

[isufbcurt]

The RPO game since OKie St has been money

 

[coolerifyoudid]

The adjustments were easy enough to see. Waiting until halftime to make them was my issue. It's been overstated, but we're playing with fire with some of the holes we put ourselves in. Even if he waits to adjust until after the first quarter, I think we win that game.

 

[TXCyclones]

Good article, but why did it take into the third quarter to realize that the passing game was available SINCE THEY WERE STACKING THE BOX???? We really needed adjustments sooner on both sides of the ball and, honestly, it seems like the coaching let the guys down (and Cyclonenation).

 

[Gunnerclone]

You can’t spell Identity without an I. As in I, the offensive coordinator.

 

[SCarolinaCy]

Who was the original interviewer to ISU staff for this story? I don't recall Campbell opening up post game like this before

 

[davegilbertson]

Who was the original interviewer to ISU staff for this story? I don't recall Campbell opening up post game like this before

All the quotes were from ISU presser from Campbell and I assume the same was true for Manning and players. Hines asked most the questions and wrote the article.

 

[kcbob79clone]

I hope we open up the OU game with this and not wait a half to adjust.

 

[Neptune78]

The adjustments were easy enough to see. Waiting until halftime to make them was my issue.....

As was the defensive adjustment of bringing pressure on the frosh QB.

 

[BleedCycloneRed]

If the opposition does not realize they should stack the box against Manning's offense in the first half they have not been watching game film. I am not a football guy but tracked the play calling for several games and even I was able to predict the plays in the first half with unreasonably high percentage. HIs lack of using the passing attack in the first half is limiting the offense significantly. Without Breece Hall's long runs, we would little offense until after halftime.

 

[Goothrey]

On the topic of 1st half performance vs 2nd half performance...

1st half scoring (for season):
Opponent: 121 ISU: 159

2nd half:
Opponent: 90 ISU: 146

I actually didn't see much difference between 1st and second half performances. 21 points from that 31 point opponent scoring difference came from the Texas Tech game. Quite an outlier there. And there was a 31 point difference between first and second half in the Kansas game for ISU's scoring (38 in 1st, 7 in 2nd).

There was only 1 game where both scoring O and scoring D got worse in the second half (against WVU). There were 4 games where both scoring O and scoring D improved from 1st to 2nd half. They went 2-2 in those games (Texas, oSu - Tech, Baylor).

4-0 when taking a lead into halftime. 2-4 when not (Texas and oSu were the wins). Of course, special teams play makes the analysis a bit tricky to quickly assess the differences between strictly offense and defense. I think the takeaway is still if ISU is down at the half, all sides of the ball have to improve to win. One facet alone cant do it.

 

[Freebird]

Good. But the question still remains why do we keep walking into these games with the wrong gameplan in the first place?

 

[khardbored]

Apparently there was some controversy that the Tech radio guy was hyper-critical of Bog 12 officials, going so far as giving out the commissioner's home address on the radio and saying something about using incendiary devices to get past the gates???

Yikes.

(I read about it on a facebook group for high school football officials, I can't find a link)

 

[khardbored]

Manning, per article: "Sometimes you have to go through a few series to scrap a game plan before you have a great understanding of really what are they doing differently."

Well into the 3rd quarter is "a few series?!?!?!?"

 

[cayin]

We are best when Purdy is in a rhythm. The faster paced offense with some RPO gets it going. I almost think we are better off building leads with this and then using the run game to close it out or use the clock. I think we are a very good football team dictating the tempo and playing with leads. We are good at coming from behind too, but that is more of a gamble and harder to pull off, come up short sometimes.