Purdy at ISU
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Thank you for another thread on the topic of 20 other active threads.
For ****'s sake. From 2017 to 2021, Iowa State had the SECOND most conference wins of any Big 12 team. So by any measure, we were the second best Big 12 team. I don't know what it was from 2018-2021 when Purdy was playing, but I'm guessing it was 3rd. That is unprecedented at Iowa State. WE WERE VERY GOOD WHEN HE WAS HERE.
Some of you act like we averaged 3 god damned wins.
We played in the ******* Big 12 Championship for the first time in a century.
Iowa State was a drive away from winning its first football conference championship in more than 100 years with the players you mentioned.
What results were you expecting exactly?
2021 was an epic disaster to be honest. We did so little that year with all that talent. The Tech and WVU losses were inexcusable.
I always thought Purdy was very good, but can remember people here saying he should be benched in favor of Hunter. Fans are a fickle bunch.
This site has lost its f*cking mind in the past 36 hours. It’s absolutely embarrassing.
And completely on the defense. Purdy played his ass off in both games.
Dumb, Purdy was the most successful starting QB in program history in pretty much every category. We won a NY6 bowl and made a big 12 champ game with him.
And 4 straight bowl games. Again, people act like that **** is normal at Iowa State. IT IS NOT. 2021 was a disappointment when taking into account expectations. It was not a disappointment in terms of Iowa State historically. And Iowa State's football performance over all 4 years with Purdy was very good.
I'm not sure why we can't just enjoy Purdy being successful and not turn it into a ***** session about Iowa State.
For that reason alone, I wish we'd quit playing Iowa. We've had a coach that beat Iowa a lot and then lost a hell of a lot of conference games.
As a whole our fanbase appreciated him quite a bit, and yet still probably underappreciated him.
I agree with this, but people with brains appreciated him. He was really good here.
We won a Fiesta Bowl and had the best season in school history with Purdy. It's like everyone forgot. The revisionist history with how good we were, and how good Purdy was at Iowa State is insane. He was the best QB to ever play here and it wasn't close. We also had by far the best 4 year stretch in school history. Also not close. Not sure what else fans expect? We still only put out like 4-5 NFL players over that stretch. Power house schools put out 4-5+ per year.
Also, there are tons of great NFL QBs who were on bad/average college teams. Mahomes did less at Texas Tech than Purdy did here is one example of many. Josh Allen @ Wyoming, Lamar Jackson went 8-5, 9-4, 8-5 as a starter @ Louisville, in a bad conference. Rodgers @ Cal. Daniel Jones went 8-5, 4-8, 7-6, 8-5 @ Duke. Dak Prescott went 7-6, 8-5, 9-4, 10-3 @ Mississippi State.
Basically if you're not playing for a blue blood, it's still a struggle for even an NFL caliber QB to win big in college. Blue Bloods just have soooo much more talent across the board.
It's just so frustrating that we can't enjoy Brock having success without some ******* fans bashing Iowa State in the process.
Patrick Mahomes lost by 50 points against a bad Iowa State team.