*** Official UNI vs IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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Idk… they showed flashes. But the plan was to run vanilla all game as CMC does in week 1.
Its been like 90% backups on defense most of the quarter. I would love nothing more to beat them 45-0, but Campbell is just fine with this. Gonna get the win and gets a lot of guys reps that normally wouldn't get them.
KidSilverhair
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I think they’ve gone totally conservative after going up 30-nothing
kept the Manning playbook around for this eventuality
There's a go-for-one/go-for-two chart that every coach has. It says when you're down by 21 you go for two. If you go for one and make it or go for two and miss it doesn't matter because whether you're down by 20 or 21 you have to score three touchdowns to go ahead....two touchdowns and two successful two point conversions leaves you still down by 4 or 5 and you need a third touchdown.
But if you make a touchdown that puts you down by 21 and you go for two and make it then you're now down only by 19 and you only need to score two touchdowns and a field goal to tie. 6+2 +6 +2 + 3 and you're tied.
Msybe too early for it considering UNI kept pressing.
Campbell only cares about getting the win. We've been in scrimmage mode ever since Kohl came in earlier for a series. On a 100 degree day nobody cares about style points on our sideline.
I might go so far to say that the that Cyclone special teams have been more than solid today: had a 56 yd FG and Perkins is averaging 53 yds/punt on 7 punts. W/our defense, that special teams play will keep the Cyclones in almost every game.
I hope he's being held out as a precaution
We are up 21, maybe not for long, and aren't we playing a lot of non starters now?
The plus to that is we might be saving our guys from injury, in a game we are well ahead in, and we are getting a lot of players game reps.
I'm pretty happy with how the game is going/went. It's natural to want to pile on, or win by more though.
Would be nice wouldn’t it!
But remember, we’re resting starters, duh. We were not trying to get first downs. We were just practicing (…practicing not getting first downs). All those FBS teams that blow out FCS schools and score 40, 50+ points - are silly. We know something they don’t!
